"Why?"
I was stunned to hear my almost 2 year old boy ask me "why?" when I told him not to touch my stuff. I was stunned and happy. I rushed to ask my hubby if he heard us and he nonchalantly responded to the affirmative.
I guess this is the beginning of a long journey of "why" that I wish were never uttered, or questions that I cannot answer altogether.However, I am happy, because this shows that I can now have a conversation with my boy.
Baby boy can talk. If you consider talk uttering some gibberish that only him can understand. Then, YES! He can talk. He has been uttering words in the last 6 months. Some of them we can clearly make out like: "eat", "orange juice", "sit down","nice","puppies", "dog" and so on. Some others,well it takes time to understand them.
Baby boy is learning how to talk by mimicking us-his father and I, and his teacher and daycare buddies. Every day he learns a new word. It is fascinating to see how much he can absorb.
As parent, we were worried that Baby boy could not talk at his age. One day, watching the Apprentice Celebrity, we saw Donald Trump then 18 month old baby answer questions related to his father's work. We were stunned. We immediately starting comparing him to our then 20 months old Boy. Then I stopped short. Donald Trump's baby is not like our son. He sleeps in a million dollar crib, has probably the best nanny and teacher one who has millions can find him. He is probably being coached. My Little Prince dot not have excessive coaching but he is well loved, and well fed. He learns so much at his daycare and at home with us. And I guess it is enough because even if he cannot say what his father does for a living, he knows how to convey that he wants to eat, sleep, play, go outside or that he did his dirty business. So enough with the comparison.
The thing is babies like human being are different from one another. Some crawl at 5 month, some never. Some walk at 8 month, some like my boy take their time and finally walk by themselves at 12 months. Some are early bloomer, some are late bloomer. It does not matter how fast or slow they do things as long as it does not becoming alarming like complete lack of speech. Little Prince can talk fine. As long as he says the things that are the most important like : eat apple, it is mine, pool, poo poo, how are you, I love you and thank you, I do not mind him being late at developing his speech.
Baby boy can sing as well. I love singing so I used to sing to him ever since he was born. I did not know what effect it would have on him. But now I came to realise that Little Prince has a musical ear. He can hear a tune once or twice and he can reproduce it. He loves singing kids songs, lullabies even pop music. His favorite song is "I like to move it" from the soundtrack of the movie Madagascar. Lately, he is enjoying "Petit Papa Noel" that his father taught him-and that my Mother used to sing to him when he was 6 month old.
Little Prince is developing, slowly, step by step. He is taking his time and I do not mind at all, because by the end of the day he will get there. And that is all that matters.
