The Other Language

You have started talking in complete sentences and paragraphs, although almost none of the words are understandable. The inflection and tone are right and it sounds like words, just in some foreign language. I wonder if you'll continue to talk in long sentences and slowly more of the words will become understandable, like sounds morphing into a language. When you need to be understood, though, you usually stick to short one-or-two-word sentences.

I think your slide is your favorite toy. You drag it all over the living room and kitchen. You slide down it all during the day. You send your dolls down it. You send your other toys down it. I like to think of it as research into the coefficient of friction for various surfaces. Just today you held Gina (a new doll) as you went down the slide, just like your Dad and I slide with you.

Since you learned how to turn on the water in our bath tub, Dad unscrewed the faucet handles to keep you from filling up the tub. Ever since then you point to the faucet stubs and tell us "broken", sometimes adding that Dad broke it. Now that you can open door and cabinets, and we have put child-proofing on them, you try them and then announce that the door is "stuck". True in a way.