My little Keenan, who turns two tomorrow!!, has recently begun stringing sentences together. Nevermind that his pronunciation leaves much to be desired. I was awestruck on Saturday of last week by what he said when he was eating breakfast.
I had told him he needed to finish his eggs before I would get him a bowl of cereal. When he had finished his eggs, he said, "Eat all eggs. Now have cereal." I had no idea a child so young would be able to articulate an idea this complex, let alone think it in the first place.
Today's sentence was less awe-some, but it was terribly sweet. I was making lunch. The girls went with their dad for the afternoon so it was just Keenan and me. Keenan was eating and I was still preparing more food.
"Mama," he half-shouted, and I thought he was about to start screaming because he was so hungry and I hadn't read his mind yet to put more food in his bowl. But instead, he said, with that same tone of voice, "I like that song."
I had just finished singing, "My Heavenly Father Loves Me," from the Children's Songbook.
And then he started playing a game with me: What's the sign for _____. That was a fun game, since I had to decipher his spoken words and hope that the sign I made matched what he was thinking.
And now some fun from Adara:
The school work that came home with her today said that she "needs improvement" on "using beginning sounds, phonetic spelling and resources for each word." I will write her sentence and let you be the judge of whether she was spelling things phonetically."I like when the lef wr n re tre." [Translation, in case your phonics is different than Adara's: "I like when the leaves were in the tree."]
Finally, here are a few Halloween-related pictures.
(I wasn't going to put a headband on Keenan, but when he realized that, he started to get upset. So he had no one but himself to blame for this blackmail picture.)
4 comments:
Nicholas always had to have his fingernails painted when Mariah got hers done. He never liked to be left out either.
Actually, I have a few 7th graders who spell much like Adara does. And are you sure "re tre" isn't "our tree"? It looks like it should be.
I still can't get over the 3 redheads. That all 3 kids should get the recessive genes when you're dark! So weird!
Maybe child #4 will be dark.
I had a gradeschool friend whose family followed the gene predictions perfectly. Parents = light brown hair, brown eyes -- but apparently both hybrid browns. Three daughters = same as parents. One daughter = blonde hair and blue eyes. She got the 1 in 4 chance of double recessive genes.
But 3 of yours got the 1 in 4 chance. :)
You kids a cuties. I love the hugging and kissing pics! Sibling love is my favorite! Tender moments. Happy halloween! They look great in their costumes!
Lisa -- hmmm: Our tree would make phonetic sense. I am not quite sure that she meant to write an "r", though. It was one of those indecipherable letters that you have to guess at.
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