This is the transcript of a conversation that Corwin had with Andrew over ICQ this afternoon. Everything that Corwin typed, he came up with ENTIRELY on his own. He asked me how to spell "where" and "other" but the spelling of those two words was the only input I had ( Read more... )

For those few of you who still read this ( Read more... )

Corwin has for the last few weeks been exhibiting one of the steps in language development that has always fascinated me in theory. He's actually LEARNING the language, and not just repeating what he hears other people say ( Read more... )

He pedaled his tricycle on his own today for the first time! He even got it started from a full stop by himself once, though I couldn't get him to repeat the accomplishment ( Read more... )

Comcast did refund my $1.99, and I didn't have to make any additional phone calls or write any letters to get it done ( Read more... )

Jack Jill up hill
Fetch pail water
Jack fell down, broke crown
Tumble after.

I got to sleep in a bit this morning (thank you, Andrew!), and when Andrew and Corwin came up at about 9:30 to tell me to get up, the first thing Corwin did was say "Turn on light." Which impressed me, as it's the first time I've been consciously aware of him getting those words in the right order -- usually he says "light turn on." After the ( Read more... )

I haven't taken the time to make a post in a while. Since I need to be getting to bed soon, here's the quickie update version:

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I need to go read some books about toddler sleep, I think. *sigh ( Read more... )

I'm not sure we've hit 'language explosion' just yet, but Corwin is definitely starting to incorporate new words into his spoken vocabulary. In the past two days he has added "Hi," "Bye," and "Bob" (though Bob still has no ending consonant...*sigh*). He's been practicing Hi and Bye all day today off and on (well, in the time he was home...not ( Read more... )