So exciting! Way to go Charlotte!
My 4 year old son is one of those kids who never shuts up- from the second he wakes up until he goes to sleep. We have to tell him “less talking and more eating” at meal times. I do have to agree about the parental brain damage some days.She may have been a slow starter at speaking but, is certainly advanced in the taste dept. I still can’t eat parmesan. That smell…YUK!
I love when toddlers learn to talk! Our son is 20, but sometimes my husband and I sit and say words that he used to say when he was little….good memories. :)
This makes me feel better because Henry has done the same thing - he’d start saying something (or doing something, such as waving) and then he’d stop doing it for weeks at a time. So strange. He’s just now getting into talking again. Of course all he says right now is ma ma, da da, and “dah” (which I assume is “dog”). But for right now it’s enough. :)
Miss Joules - LOL, me too =) I’m not a very good translator, either, so I’m sure she gets even more frustrated too. I know what she’s saying, but I feel like if she can’t communicate clearly then she needs to keep practicing and improving, you know? Me telling other people that YOG! means yogurt isn’t going to help very much on that front, right?
I don’t know. Maybe in a couple of weeks, I’ll be so tired of the communication confusion and frustration that I’ll start translating constantly lol.
Tabitha - At least he says those words, that’s awesome! Charlotte only just last week figured out Momma.
As my mother would gladly tell you, I apparently never outgrew the phase of talking all the time ;)
That was exactly Hannah, except she would just say Mama and Dada indiscriminately. It wasn’t until about 3-4 months ago that she figured out that *I* am Mama and Brian is Dada. I started writing down all her words as she learns them, and I noticed that it is really within the last two months that her vocabulary has just EXPLODED. Previously it had been learning 3-4 new words a month… and then in December she learned like 30, and this month she learned another 30 or so. Just this morning she surprised me when I asked where Daddy was, and she pointed to the bathroom and said quite distinctly, “Potty!“ (Which was actually where he was!) Imho language acquisition is about the most amazing thing to watch EVER.
Wow! She is quite the linguist! I love chatty kids personally. It’s the “Why?“ phase that drives me crazy.
DawnC—My husband and I always make each other promise that we’ll never forget the funny phrases and mispronunciations our son has said over his toddler year, so that when he’s twenty, we can sit and do the same thing. :-)
Sarah I think that I will struggle with the hovering and wanting to help my kid vs. encouraging him to practice and be understood in his own merit. I always feel bad for children whose parents do all their speaking for them and I think that your encouraging Charlotte to communicate clearly is a good thing.
Also I meant to say this before but I love, love, love that cheese was her motivator. I also love, love, love cheese though :) Can’t wait until I lose all the pregnancy cheese restrictions!
Oh man, the talking. Isla is in that phase where she never shuts up. I love it though, I love that she can ask me for things. The first time she asked me for a cookie, my heart hit the ground and I promised that I’ll give her cookies for as long as she asks for them. I lied, of course.
Just wait until Charlotte comes to you with a complete sentence. You will die. Just a few weeks ago Isla ran up to me, trying to get her sweater zipped up, and said, “I can’t do it!“ *thud*
Way to go, Charlotte (or not, ha!). Finnley has not yet had her “epiphany of speech” yet, but she does “talk”. And…she starts the second she wakes up. EVERY morning begins with bed-head and the word “dis?“. She says it when pointing to her zipper…meaning, please unzip THIS. Amazing what they come up with. Can’t wait for more. Enjoy it, as I know you will!
Cheese and shoes..that’s the best! Your little one is a foodie at a tender age. She will just have to substitute grape juice for wine.
Emily’s version of milk is “mote”. “I want mote” is the cutest sentence thus far. Charlotte has come a long way in such a brief time - imagine in just another month what more she’ll be saying!!

By missjoules on January 31, 2011
Way to go Charlotte! I love/hate this phase, I always feel really guilty when children of her age/ability are talking to me becuase I’m mostliy like, “Oh, really?“ “Yeah?“ “Hmm!“ “Exciting!“ because I have no idea what they are saying and their poor long-suffering parents kind of hover and try to translate. Hope she doesn’t drive you too crazy as this progresses!