Sabrina is 16 mos old now but she has been doing things that just amaze me!
Let me emphasize that I'm not imagining this, nor trying to make my kid look better than anyone else's! I LOVE all the babies on this board and share your joys and sorrows to the fullest!
Having gotten that off my chest, here it goes...
We went to her 15 mos. checkup last week and even her ped was amazed by our little girl. To name a few things:
She speaks in sentences; counts to ten; names all the animals in the Baby Einstein videos and knows their sounds; repeats every word we say and then uses it appropriately; understands two languages (English and Italian).
When she wakes up in the morning (we co-sleep), she calls her dad or me to get up and says, " Dady, Momy, up! Elmo; big bahbah". Translated it means, "Dad, Mom, get your butt out of bed because I want to go watch Elmo and have my big bottle of milk!"
Yesterday, at the library program we go to, she was singing and dancing to the songs we had only done one time before (previous week!). She also learned the word "pumpkin" (we did a project with it) which she pronounces perfectly!
The icing on the cake was today when I took her to a local grocery store that has a petting farm outsdide (and singing and dancing puppets inside!). We were looking at her favorite animals first (cows, ducks, sheep, chickens) but when we got to the turkeys, I explained to her what it was and that it went "Gobble, Gobble, Gobble". I only did it once.
We went inside, got our shopping done and came home.
When her dad and older sister and brother got home and asked how her day was, she replied "towkey....gobble,gobble,gobble"!
I was speechless!!!!:)
Is this normal?!? I haven't been around babies for so long that I don't know what's normal and what's advanced! But if even her ped was impressed, I guess she's something else!
Thanks for letting me share and I apologize for the "mommy boast" moment!:)
Annette
SAHM to Sabrina 6/24/02