The Daily Biff - K-l-ahh-k

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Sun, 10 Jul 2005

K-l-ahh-k
When Berkeley was about Eliana's age, we would reinforce the same two words every morning as we walked down the stairs: "Jesus" and "clock". We did this because on our stairwell landing, we have a framed picture of Jesus. It is a beautiful picture of Jesus, standing and facing forward, with a dove flying away from an open hand. So, as we would walk down the first half-flight of stairs toward this picture, we would point to it as say "Jesus". Likewise, when we would turn and walk down the second half-flight of stairs, we would point to the clock hung on the wall opposite from the stairs and say "clock".

We have been doing this with Eliana for, oh I dunno, about a couple months now. When we first started, we didn't get much of a response (of course). But after a few weeks, she would attempt to say the words after we said it and point to the object it represents. Not too long after, she wouldn't need any prompting, but just make her attempt at the words as we walked down the stairs on her own.

Currently, she is at the point where she can't really enunciate any words very clearly.... she can say quite a few words, but most are really only intelligible to Kristy and myself. She can't enunciate "Jesus" just yet, but she parrots the rising and falling tones of the two syllables pretty well. She can parrot "clock" a little better and has been saying "k-l-aah" for quite a while now.

Well today during nursery she did a couple of things that I hadn't noticed before. The first event was that she recognized a completely different picture of Jesus (that was hanging on the wall of the nursery) for what is was and attempted to qualify it verbally... "eee-uhh". Again, only probably myself or Kristy would know what she said ("Jesus"). But I thought it was impressive nonetheless.

The second event occurred during clean-up time toward the end of nursery. I was in the back room. On the wall is a small clock; it is multi-colored and has no numbers, quite unlike the one we have at home (which has Roman numerals on a solid beige face). While I was putting away some toys and tidying up the counter area, Eliana ambled in, stopped, and pointed up at the clock on the wall... "k-l-ahh-k".

Good girl.

:: Posted by rus on Sun, 10 Jul 2005 11:37 pm
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