May gave my husband and I a lovely present this week in honor of her birthday. New sounds!
I’ve been repeating sounds to May, but have had very little success getting her to repeat them to me. I say little, but in fact I do think that on a few occasions she tried to repeat them back to me. It is very hard to tell.
But, the good news is that in the last couple of days May started making “bah” and “woo” sounds. We are especially excited about the “bah” as she has to press her lips together to make it, which is a new way of making sounds for her. Also, she seems to be making more sounds and repeating her own sounds. For example, instead of only making a “goo” sound at the end of “ah-goo”, she now also says, “g-g-ga.”
Is this my work with her? Perhaps a result of being in nursery surrounded by all those people? Or, maybe just a natural progression?
Like everything else to do with her development, I’ll never know. But, I like it!
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The video below, of May’s first 1st birthday party in Michigan, was shot by the famous cinematographer, my mother! It is a bit fuzzy as it is from her phone. Photos from this weekend’s birthday party to follow.
Yay for May!
We haven’t hit the hard consonants like ‘B’ yet. She was saying ‘da’ for a day or two and then either forgot how to say it or got bored with it.
When we play the repeat-after-me game, I can see she is focusing on how I use my tongue. But she’s not going from observation to execution.