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• He Can Read! Music!

  No, really. My kid may be a few years behind as far as speech is concerned but who needs words when you have music? Archer's taken to sitting down with Hal's music books and just... reading. Humming along as he goes. Ch-check it:     Okay, okay, so he isn't *really* reading the music. But it's still cute and makes me wonder what age music lessons are most common. Hal and I both played piano as children. I guess it's probably way too early (Archer turns 3 end of May) but the kid has been interested in music since the beginning. In fact, he can speak almost perfectly when in song. (If life was a musical, there's a good chance Archer wouldn't be so slow to the language scene.)     Read More... Posted Mar 22 2008, 09:34 PM by GirlsGoneChild with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: milestones, speech therapy, speech delay, music

• The Words Come Marching One by One, Hoorah!

  I feel like I've been trying to catch rain in a bucket for the past year and now, suddenly, I'm caught in a torrential downpour. I'm talking about words. W-O-R-D-S. As in, Archer has them. Them, becoming more plural as the days pass.   Yes! It's flash-flooding words in the SFTB household and of course, this leaves me speechless. This morning I went to fetch Archer from his crib and he pointed out the window and said, like second nature, "lookada caca!"     I looked for the caca and sure enough? There it was. A caca!   This isn't the first time Archer has said "helicopter." If you'll recall, many moons ago I posted about Archer's first word: helicopter, which I suppose still is his first word, except he never said it again after that. Until now.   "Caca! Caca! Caca!"   Read More... Posted Aug 22 2007, 04:02 PM by GirlsGoneChild with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: Babytalk, milestones