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Oct. 28, 2006
Learning Languages, Creating Names
I just love listening to children learn language. It amazes me how quickly they add new words to their vocabulary, even if they don't always use them correctly. My youngest is 3 and he has tickled me a time or two with his choice of words. One evening we were working in the garage and he made reference to needing to put something on the bladder???? That's right...the bladder, I asked him again to make sure. He pointed to the ladder and showed me right where the bladder was!!! So the next time you need to climb up high -make sure you empty your bladder first  or make sure everyone below has an umbrella LOL.
The same child has named several of his army men and stuffed animals. This all first started with his boy baby doll that sleeps next to him in bed. He informed me one morning that this same doll that was nameless for months now had been named Sausage! I thought that was very creative. He did get very upset and I think I saw tears when his daddy told him he liked to eat sausage. Now when anyone mentions eating sausage he makes sure to specify "the other kind of sausage - the kind you eat!" Next came an army man named Enchila and then was my favorite..... the army man named Adam D'neve. Most recently it has been E-I-Joe. I just love it!
All of my children have had this creativity when it comes to language. Many children struggle with the 'th sound early on, but not my daughter. She renamed several of the numbers and said them like so: One, two, three, thour, thive, six, sethen, eight, nine ten! I told you they are all creative. Just yesterday even my oldest created a new word. He was eating a cake we had all baked together with homemade icing. Well, the icing was noone's favorite! Up side to that is that for once they realized they actually liked the cake part *grin* Anyway, back to the story..... my oldest said "this icing tastes eeeeish." I asked "what does eeeish taste like?" "I don't know," was his reply, " Sometimes I just like to make up new words, and this icing tastes eeeish!" He did say "it's pretty good.... for homemade." So maybe eeeish isn't totally disgusting anyway *big grin*.
I cherish these moments!
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