Quick Katherine update
Jun. 1st, 2005 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dtmI should think of a synonym for update that begins with /k/.
In any case, Katherine continues to make progress both in the walking department and in the language department. She's been standing up in the middle of the floor for a little over a week now, and yesterday managed three steps before collapsing to the floor again.
On the language front, there are several new words (Sorry, no IPA this time - I got that out of my system with the last post). "mel", short for "milk", seems to be the word for any drink. (you can tell from this that we're both American English speakers who do not pronounce "milk" so as to rhyme with "silk") The word for "shoe", formerly "du", has become "dooey". I'm not quite sure how this happened, as neither of us ever says "shoesies" or a similar cutening of "shoe" to her. But "dooey" it is. She's also been using "nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh" to mean "bathtime", which is perfectly reasonable but would take a bit too long to explain here.
Yesterday, I tried to teach her "banana": ("num", from "yum", is what she uses to ask for food, offer food, or express that she likes the food she's been given)
I hold out an unpeeled banana
Me: Ba-na-na.
K: num?
Me: Yes, a banana is food. Ba-na-na.
K: num?
I peel the banana and have a little piece
Me: Ba-na-na.
K: (excitedly) nummy!
Me: Yes, bananas are nummy.
I break off a small piece and give it to her
Me: Ba-na-na.
Katherine looks at the piece in her hand, then closes her fist, squishing it
K: num?
Katherine holds her covered-in-banana hand out to me
K: num?
I clean off her hand and give her another piece
Me: Ba-na-na
Katherine looks at the piece and holds it out to my mouth
K: num?
I eat the banana piece and give up
K: num.
Once again, I see Katherine refuses to be taught anything, though she seems perfectly happy to learn things on her own. I don't know why Katherine didn't try to eat the banana herself.
In any case, Katherine continues to make progress both in the walking department and in the language department. She's been standing up in the middle of the floor for a little over a week now, and yesterday managed three steps before collapsing to the floor again.
On the language front, there are several new words (Sorry, no IPA this time - I got that out of my system with the last post). "mel", short for "milk", seems to be the word for any drink. (you can tell from this that we're both American English speakers who do not pronounce "milk" so as to rhyme with "silk") The word for "shoe", formerly "du", has become "dooey". I'm not quite sure how this happened, as neither of us ever says "shoesies" or a similar cutening of "shoe" to her. But "dooey" it is. She's also been using "nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh" to mean "bathtime", which is perfectly reasonable but would take a bit too long to explain here.
Yesterday, I tried to teach her "banana": ("num", from "yum", is what she uses to ask for food, offer food, or express that she likes the food she's been given)
I hold out an unpeeled banana
Me: Ba-na-na.
K: num?
Me: Yes, a banana is food. Ba-na-na.
K: num?
I peel the banana and have a little piece
Me: Ba-na-na.
K: (excitedly) nummy!
Me: Yes, bananas are nummy.
I break off a small piece and give it to her
Me: Ba-na-na.
Katherine looks at the piece in her hand, then closes her fist, squishing it
K: num?
Katherine holds her covered-in-banana hand out to me
K: num?
I clean off her hand and give her another piece
Me: Ba-na-na
Katherine looks at the piece and holds it out to my mouth
K: num?
I eat the banana piece and give up
K: num.
Once again, I see Katherine refuses to be taught anything, though she seems perfectly happy to learn things on her own. I don't know why Katherine didn't try to eat the banana herself.
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Date: 2005-06-01 04:46 pm (UTC)Oh, her junior high and high school years are going to be a great deal of fun, I can see.