You are getting it. You will now use four and five word sentences fairly regularly, and your vocabulary continues to amaze us.
Just the other day you said “Daddy buckle Alphie’s chair.” I had never before heard you use the word “buckle”, and it is not a word we regularly apply to you getting in the car. Usually we just get you “strapped” in.
And today you said “Mommy cook this in the toaster!” Obviously, this is a tremendous achievement, even if there was not actually any toast around at the time.
You still need to work a little bit on pronunciation. Some words that you miss pronounce are just innocent and funny, like when you talk about your “pink yaptop” or your various assorted “yipsticks”. Other words are a little risqué and therefore extremely funny. Any discussion of “
The Grinch” is a slightly horrifying detour into trying to figure out why you are talking about “the crotch”. It is especially disconcerting to hear you clarify that you are talking about “the green crotch”.
You have also learned to lie a little bit. Last night at dinner you told your mother that one of her pieces of broccoli was “Too Hot!” and that she shouldn’t eat it. We learned a minute or so later that the real reason she wasn’t supposed to eat it was because you wanted it.
And, if all those great life skills weren’t enough, you are an excellent mimic. For instance, you mimic whole phrases now like “Bitch bitch bitch” and “Damn it”.
Fortunately, you tend to not repeat phrases that you don’t understand.
And yesterday, when you were asking for some candy and your mother asked you to say a whole sentence you looked at her and said “a whole sentence”.
