Dominic has moved into a new sort of talking phase. He left caveman-speech behind a little while ago; now he is at the point where wants to try to use words All. The. Time.
So when Ella says something, he will repeat it exactly. And any time he’s introduced to a new word he’ll repeat it, often with painful deliberation. (It took him over ten seconds to say “hippopotamus” tonight, but he wasn’t going to stop until he had hit every single syllable.) And he has started self narrating. If he’s going down the stairs and he sees his mother he’ll say “Mommy! I go down stayuhz!” But I’ve also caught him doing the same thing when he doesn’t think anyone else is watching: “I get mah trains. I go up stayhuz and get trains. Fast!”
All this is wonderful. And yet the very same child refuses to eat frozen custard at the Dairy Godmother, instead preferring a plain ice cream cone. Go figure.
mrfred said
well, he’s getting his _trains_, so he’s got something to talk about!