As a parent watching your child go through their developmental milestones is both exhilarating and terrifying.
My son has thankfully been pretty quick to hit his gross and fine motor skills, and I'd be lying if I said it didn't give me a bit of a big head.
But language has been a bit more bumpy and hard to navigate.
In part because I can see and hear where his same aged peers are at, and also because some of the information you get as what to expect is a bit vague.
As it turns out when you're expecting your child to talk any noise they make with purpose counts as a word. Animal noises count as words and so do sound effects.
There's also this evolution of words.
My son did used to say mum-mum when referring to me, but after a while he stopped saying it entirely and I was very downhearted.
Until we realised one of his newer words "me" did not refer to himself, he's calling me, his "mummy" turned to "me". What a relief
And then other sounds that refer to concepts. He's got one "deedle-leedle-leedle" which at first meant fan, but he also uses for his bike so I'm under the assumption it means "things that spin"
We're still learning to understand one another, but we're getting there.
