Evan just turned 20 months yesterday and his verbal skills are developing very quickly. He's grasping concepts as well as individual words quickly and is clearly 'thinking' before reacting/responding. We play some kids songs on youtube on the iphone/itube and after 2 or 3 notes, he would smile as he realizes what song was being played (Muffin man, Bingo, Old Macdonalds the latest). If we play a youtube clip that he's never heard before, he would keep his head really still and listen to the notes and try to determine if it's something he's heard before, and if not, he would listen carefully to see what was in the song. If the lyrics were clear and slow enough, he would sing along a bit after 5 or so tries. If he's not interested, he would announce another song title that he would rather listen to.
He understands when I'm talking about something in the past. Like if I asked him what we saw at San Antonio yesterday, he would say pigs, horse, rooster, etc, and no-cows (we got there too late, the farm was closed). He said we also saw horse's poo, something new I showed him yesterday. Speaking of San Antonio, I took him there yesterday, so it was just him and me. We went up the PGE trail but just a few feet into the trail, he ran to the front of the stroller and said he wanted to sit (in the stroller), because the trail was really steep. I obliged but when the trail leveled out, I got him off the stroller and little by little, he walked with me, often many paces behind and then running to catch up as other hikers/runners passed by and startled him a bit. He walked quite a bit more than he usually did on weekends and that was obvious when he slept till past 8am this morning. As we hiked around, Evan got more comfortable and started to sing his favorite songs. I asked him to see a few new songs, too: Looby Loo, Goodnight Eeyore. He's learning new songs so quickly that it's a bit of a challenge to teach him new ones as we dont know many ourselves.
Another thing Evan has learned to do recently is to divert a task we ask of him to someone else. For example, if I ask him to sing a song and he's either too tired or dont know how to sing it, he would say 'mama sing', or 'papa sing', meaning that we should sing it instead. Or if we gave him something he didn't really want to eat or if he's really happy with what he's eating, he would give some to us and ask us to eat it.
Somewhere someone taught him what it meant to ride a horse on someone back, so whenever we lie on our stomachs on the carpet during his bedtime, he would tell us he wants to 'ride horse' and proceed to get on our backs.
Strawberries: he likes the fresh ones that can be picked right off the plant. He doesnt like strawberries that we've bought from stores and have been in the fridge. So whenever he wanted strawberries, he would say he wants to go outside for strawberries.
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