Other people

Things Sam does and says this month.

He will take something he is looking at (like the monkey game on the iPhone) and turn it around so that the other person can see it. It's the first time i've noticed him noticing another person having a different 'point of view'. He does it very carefully and deliberately.

He is very interested in his reflection and his shadow. He talks to them and keeps an eye on them.

He knows that verbs have different forms. He uses the continuous to describe: 'Daddy sleeping' 'baby crying', and the simple to instruct: 'mummy, sit down, eat'.

He is an increasingly absorbent sponge of new words. Asking and repeating and filing.

He has many lexical phrases. Daddy sleeping inabed. What are you doing?

He has relative concepts. 'to me' and 'you'. 'Mine' and 'mummy phone'.

He has relative locations. Mummy here. Daddy there (upstairs). Daddy gone. (to work, also out of town). But if we are in Central (Dit pointed this out), then Daddy is 'there'. (He's walking distance away).

And he has increasingly sophisticated imagination and play. Like someone hiding rather obviously (with a pillow on their face) and he will look under the sofa, in the wrong places.

He has his own names for his favourite toys and videos. the wiggles are called 'yummy yummy'.

His (Dit's) favourite TV shows are ellen degeneres, kimmel and american idol, and he can ask for them.

He loves his wiggles magazines and he loves spiderman, even though it's scary. I think it gives him nightmares.

He's so cool. Did i mention that?