Anyone Else Amazed At A Toddler's Development?
Lounge By berryblondeboys Updated 24 Jan 2007 , 6:53pm by galliesway
You would think I would feel "yep... they learn quick, that's their job" as I've had a child before and was the oldest of 4 kids and did TONS of babysitting through college... but.... it's amazing!
My older son is now 10 and we were amazed with him too. He is in a full time gifted classroom (so nice for those highly gifted), so he did learn things very quickly, but still... I've been convinced that our younger son isn't gifted, but bright instead (which is TOTALLY FINE and actually EASIER as highly gifted kids are NOT EASY!!!!) but... now I'm not so sure... He's just EXPLODING in development before my eyes! It's amazing to watch and he's so EXCITED ABOUT IT!!!
Anyway... for Christmas we got Henry those magnetic letters from leap frog... I thought it might be too early for him (it says age two and up and he was just 20 months) as he doesn't do puzzles yet and had no interest in letters either... Well... in three weeks time he went from not recognizng ANY letters, to knowing all 26 capital letters and he's beginning to know them in lowercase too - just from playing with them at my feet while I cook dinner!. He has also learned his colors, and numbers in both English and Croatian too..If I'm reading a number book with henry, he'll say "one, two three" in his best way "ohna, two-two, tree, and so on) and with Sven, he'll say them in Croatian, ( edan, dwa, tree, tertree and so on) (Yep, we're a bilingual family).
His language? He is speaking in 3-5 word sentences.... Now, NO ONE except me and sometimes DH can understand them, but he will say every monring now, "Dee-dee Ay...nooo... Tata Ay...nooo" That's "Adrian Awake? No... tata Awake? No"... When he can't find something, "Where's ma wa-wa. No see wa-wa, where is it?" (Where's my water. No water, where is it?) and when he finds it, "there it is!" and so on.... He expects me to know EVERYTHING he is saying but since his annunciation is still so poor, I can't!!! and he repeats the exact same 5-6 words again, and again I can't understand him... It was just a big bOOOOOOm with his language and interest. it's amazing...
He's been a book CRAZED child sinc he was about 6 months old (looks at pictures and books for HOURS every day), but books now are never looked at for pictures any more, but for the letters and numbers. the grocery store is one big letter and number fest too - he's obsessed almost! LOL
So... he just turned 21 months yesterday and the change in him from one month ago is HUGE...
Adrian knew his letters mostly by 21 months too, but it was a slow and gradual learning that took 2-3 months. henry did it in about 2 weeks!!! and neither time did we "push" it. We got him the toy and he just plopped down in the kitchen to play while I cooked and before I knew it, he ahd it!!!
I'm still in awe! HOW do they do that????
Children are amazing. I was working with my son who is in Kindergarten and was having a hard time learning all of his letters, in one week he had them all. He is moving so fast with his learning now!
My nephew who is two seems to grow in leaps and bounds with his speech everyday. I see him once a week and he is a different child everytime. With big sentences and everything. He sang Jingle Bells to me the other day, he had the whole chorus down.
Way to be such a proud mom! 
I know what you mean although I have no other kids to compare Keegan to. She will 2 end of March her vocabulary just amazes me and my mil bought her age appropriate toys for Xmas but she is way beyond most of those. She is a book lover too.I'm kinda sad at how fast she is growing and so independent! 
My daughter loves to help clean, put away ( attempt) groceries and cook . I doubt that will lasy forever. I'm going to get her a learning tower for her birthday. She wants to be hands on rather than pretend with her kitchen. LOL!
Does your little one help in the kitchen?
my daughter loves to help she will be 3 next month and for as long as she could walk shes wanted to do everything from rolling out my dough to cleaning and putting away groceries getting her her own little vaccum was the only way i could get her to stop being scared of the noise mine made and ofcourse she could not have a toy one but real vaccum she is so independent and smart everything is i can do it myslef its so great to watch and at the same time so bitter sweet because i just want her to stay my little angel im amazed at how fast she has become interested in barbies and hair things and makeup to i thought that didnt come until they were much much older.
My five year old is a big help in the kitchen. He loves to cook, I wish I could find more things to have him help me better. He often makes Salads and stirs gravy and things, but I wish I could come up with more for him to do in the kitchen. He loves it.
Oh yeah, I forgot to brag about my son's favorite thing. Golf he is five and it one of the best golfers. He goes to the course with his Grandpa. He asked Santa for new golf clubs, which Sants deliverd of course. He has been golfing since the age of three. Children amaze me! Sorry proud mom had to brag.
I, too, thought my eldest was the gifted one. So smart, God bless him. I thought my daughter was more average. It's hard to compare becasue she's 3 years younger. So, we started learning all the long prayers and say them together every night, while DD just watched while DS repeated each line for a few weeks. At age 2 my daughter decided it was her turn! She said the entire Lord's prayer by herself from start to finish. I was completely shocked...I made her say it to EVERYONE I was so proud. Since then, she has shown an extremely good talent for remembering. My goodness, there is no fooling her!!
They are truly a gift that I wish I remembered to appreciate more!!!!
I just had to share this with you all. We all know how children can be saying whatever comes to mind. We were in Cheddars about two weeks ago Keegan will sometimes mix up pu when she gets a wiff of a stinker. The waiter must have left a stinker cos at the top of her lungs she yells pu me and points to the poor guy! LOL! I could have died except I was laughing too hard!
Kelley
I have a 2 yr old dd (she will be 3 in April). She already has a sense of style. Picks out some of her own clothes. She tells me every day just how she wants her hair fixed. She refuses to learn any color but pink and purple. Her vocabulary is outstanding. She talks as well as her brother who is 4 almost 5. I homeschool my DS and it's amazing to see him learning to read. My DD does some of the things with us and is quick to try to beat her brother to the answer. She can already count to 50 with him.
Yep they are amazing.
I couldn't agree more . . . my kids amaze me each and every day!
I have to say that I think those Leap Frog toys are amazing. We have the Letter Factory DVD and I swear within three or four viewings, both of our boys knew their letters and all of their sounds. It's amazing. And as a former kindergarten teacher, I was watching it along with them recognizing tools and techniques that I would use in the classroom so they've definitely got their finger on the educational pulse. My youngest was about 20 months when he had the letters and sounds down (as I said, due largely in part to that movie because I wasn't pushing it AT ALL with him) and then it's just a spring board into early reading. So anyone out there who's interested in reinforcing letters / sounds with their kids, check out that DVD!
They also have another one that I think is called Talking Word Factory or something similar . . . it's a great pre-reading DVD.
Wow!...You guys have convinced me to pick up those Leap Frog Letters when we get our tax return. I know, they're only like $20 at Wal-Mart, but that's $20 we need to spend on diapers right now. Anyways, my daughter is a preemie and we've always had to adjust for her age (2 months difference) until she was about 13-14 months. She's now 17 months and is starting to do make-believe play and 2-syllable words. She babbles on and on, of course, but we have no clue what she's saying most of the time. She brings me books to read to her all day long and today she started this thing where she tries to read the book to me when I'm done reading it to her. It is so cute...she had to work really hard to get where she's at and I'm so proud of her!
About 4 weeks ago we met with my 6 1/2 year old son's speech teacher, regular teacher, and his reading teacher for his IEP. He was 2 reading levels behind the class and he was testing at a level 6. After my hubby and I requested that they send reading books home everyday that they use in school he went up 2 reading levels in 3 weeks. I was so proud of him, we went and bought him 2 hermit crabs as a present (and Daddy had to get one too so now we have 3). My son is also very good at reasoning with you and can present a very good argument when needed.
My husband had a learning disability growing up and he never got the full help for it like our son is getting now. So he is very thankful for what our school district is now doing.
ckkerber- Thanks for the info on the leapfrog dvd's I'm going out to get them for our road trip this weekend!
Mouse- I'd love to talk to you as my step son is struggling and he reading at a 3rd grade level and was pushed through to 6th grade by his mother.
Everyone else- looks like we have a mommy group going! 
Kelley
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