Oh my goodness. Lucian’s speech is FINALLY picking up speed!!! Until this week he’s been making attempts to copy individual words with the occasional high frequency two-word phrase, e.g. “Bye Li, hi Papa.” He’s 2y8mo.
But this week, he finally said “up.” That word-final /p/ has been a long time coming. “Help” has finally become “hep” instead of “wuak” (which was a morph from the earlier “wah”).
He has started saying “thank you.” It comes out as “atch you.” It began when I would thank Lionel profusely on Lucian’s behalf when Lionel would give Lucian the toy in his hand or do a trade. Two days ago, he started saying it after I would thank him spontaneously (e.g., for bringing me something or putting something in the garbage). And now he says it during every appropriate exchange, regardless of whether he’s the one who should be doing the thanking. Sometimes he thanks himself, or says thank you after Lionel did something for me.
“Video” is no longer “zhee-zhee” (/zh/ as in the s in “measure”). It’s “zhee-jee-oh.”
Today, he spontaneously says “yo” and “mio” (I/mine) while pointing to himself. He’s been using “me” (pronounced “nee”) for awhile appropriately.
The other day he was “counting” in a book, saying “vahn… vahn… vahn…” (one… one… one…). Another time, I said he needed to listen to my directions or I would get upset. He then said “vahn… doo…” which is copying me when I count to three as his warning. He also counts “uno, dohf” in Spanish. I should also note that he grasps the concepts of one and two, it’s not just mimicry. When he has two toys, slices of mandarin, etc, he exclaims “dos/two!” (interchangeable) and holds up two fingers.
Something cool for the bilingual piece, if I ask him to say “good” he says “ben” (bien). I suspected this for awhile but today when I served him some sweet potato I asked, “Is that good or is it too much?” And he said “Ben.”
For the longest time, he hasn’t said any version of his name. He gets embarrassed and refuses to try usually. The first time he did spontaneously, he called out “Nahn!” (Lu-ciAHN) as he went down the stairs, wanting me to follow (as though saying what I would say as I called after him). He’s using it with more frequency now.
I realized he tried to say “another one” this morning, but can’t remember what the pronunciation was like.
Most exciting for me is his use of two word phrases. They’ve cropped up in the last 48 hours. Yesterday he said “nee wake” for “me awake” after his nap. After lunch today, he said “Li done,” then “Na-nahn all done” (Lucian all done). I don’t count that as a three-word because “all done” tends to be a “chunk” for kids, learned as one word, but the two-syllable name was huge. And all of it together is just delightful.
The funniest bit: he was playing with trains this morning and started using the engine to push a block. Then began repeating, “no pow,” which is… snow plow! During our walk later, when he got to a pile of leaves with his push toy, he kept repeating “no pow, no pow.” He has a snowplow Hot Wheels whose function I explained in detail once, so I know where the concept came from, but having him extend it spontaneously and imaginatively to other activities is a FANTASTIC sign of development.
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