Month Twenty Three with Isabelle
Isabelle turned another month older last week. Sometimes I can’t get it together to post our recap on time. Oh well. It’s a week late but at least it’s here.
This month Isabelle seems to be calling for Alan more and more. When she wakes up and sees him sleeping she says deh. When we’re in the living room while he’s sleeping still, she’ll pound on the door calling for him. And when he leaves for work she pulls aside the curtain saying deh as he’s leaving.
And enter a new phase: whiney Isabelle. I am sure she whined before but she seems to have taken it to a new level. She has a whiney I want my way fake cry now. Sometimes she makes it interesting by adding a little throw myself down on the floor action to go with that cry. Yikes! HELP US! With real tears and everything.
And this isn’t new but I wanted to bring it up. The shoveling of food in her mouth. When will that become ladylike eating? Sometimes she jams so much food in, there just isn’t any room to swallow. So she spits it out. Not very ladylike either but so funny and cute.
And a concern. I know all kids are different but reading about other kids on blogs and getting one of those monthly what your toddler should be doing newsletters has got me a bit worried. Worried about what? About Isabelle’s talking or I should say her lack of talking. She doesn’t say many sentences or even many words.
Some of the words Isabelle uses frequently are ball, book, wa (water), daw (dog), ca (cat), ear, cole (cold. says it while rubbing her belly), boo (booger), shhooo (shoes), ki (kick. says it when she’s kicking a ball), poo (for anything coming from that region, even farts), mama, and deh. She does have other words but I was reading that she should understand 200 words, and probably use about 50 to 75 of them regularly. Ummm…how many did I list? Thirteen regular words? Olinda says she does talk. We just don’t understand her. Well fine. Shouldn’t we be understanding her more? Like understanding at least thirty seven more words? And sentences? The only sentence I understand is come on (I say that a lot to her). So just a bit concerned.
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Hi,
My little boy is 22 months old (his birthday is 18th October) & he is going through exactly what Isabelle is going through. Whiny & wanting his Daddy all the time! Which is quite hard when hubby works from home & needs time to himself!
Also, he can say words, he just doesn’t – he makes a LOT of noises & gets his point across, but although I am worried, everyone else isn’t. Oh & the eating thing – he does exactly the same thing – stuffs his face full, can’t chew it all & then spits it out! At least I can get him to spit it out into his bowl now & not onto the floor!
I do worry when I read those sorts of articles, but then I just look at him & I know that he is ok, he’s just taking his time. I do know that when he does start talking, I won’t be able to win any arguments
Kuky, if you want to know if she is delayed in speech, call Early Intervention Services for an evaluation. Every county has one. Your pediatriican’s office will know the number if you can’t find it in a phone book or the online county directory. It is just and evaluation, so if everything is on track, no harm done.
Our first would also do the lay on the floor, crying when she didn’t get her way. We’d move from the room. She’d stop crying when she realized we weren’t watching her. She’d find us, lay on the floor, and began crying again. We tried very hard not to laugh.
dont freak out. i feel those this is what your baby should be doing updates should only be used to line the diaperpail. kids are all different and move at their own pace. i can say this now since i have been through this 3 times. yeah i freaked with my first but you soon realise not too.
and the fit throwing…. i know this may not be the best solution but i took a couple of different approaches. one was to laugh.. like get down on the floor and laugh like i couldnt controll myself. the kids seem to be more concerned with what on earth is mom doing rather than throwing their fit. the other was and this one worked as they got older is i would take pictures of them and threaten to send to people like grandmas or sunday school teachers.
yeah i know these may be considered a bit off the wall and you will never find them being approved by dr spock, but they seemed to work for me.
an di have very well adjusted… it not abit sarcastic… children these days for the most part.
I wouldn’t worry about it too much. I worked with one to three years olds for four years in childcare facilities and a lot of children do not fit into those windows exactly. Some children are quicker at developing physically with balance and coordination, others verbally, and others it seems as if they are very delayed in both and one day it clicks and you wonder where the child came from and whether it is a case of the body snatchers.
My oldest ate like that as well, as do most girls at that age if they are more physical and like to be very active…and G turned out fine.
I think you should only worry if she wasn’t talking at all. Or if she didn’t point or stuff. My little brothers were about a year apart. One would babble and talk and learn new words all the time. The other was pretty quiet … and then started speaking in full sentences all of the sudden.
As long as she has an interest in the world around her, she’s fine.
If you’re worried about it, bring it up at her 2-year well baby visit. I did. L really was not talking much at all. We knew she understood us and she did talk, but nowhere near what other kids her age were. Her shyness does not help: she won’t talk in front of most people (and that included MMO, where she did not talk until April). She’s almost three and her speech has come a long way in a year.
Does she hear you? Does she respond appropriately when you tell her something….like get excited when you say “Let’s go get a cookie” To me, (as a mom and grandma) she seems very bright and age appropriate. Speech and motor skills are different in all babies and toddlers. She is an only child and it’s possible that you as parents do a lot of anticipating and knowing what she wants (and doting of course) so she doesn’t feel like she has to talk.
My grandson is almost two but he is the third child and talks better than his older sisters ever did.
Barbara (NV)
Same experiences here, kids develop all at their own rythm, some start speaking quickly, but start walking later on (like my kids), and some start walking at early age and it takes a little longer to speak. It seems that kids first have to learn to understand a certain number of words and sentences before they start speaking theirselves. Probably there is a lot going on in her little head, and soon she will start speaking words and sentences and her vocabulary will grow in a few weeks!
That is the cutest pout ever!
She may be saying more words that you aren’t thinking of right now. I would try to write them down through-out the day. You may be surprised that there are more than you think!
Sentences? Seems early for sentences, but maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about.
If she isn’t saying the words “no” and “mine”, I think you are doing pretty good! My son didn’t say them as a toddler, but boy does his little sister know them!
I’m the mother of two and the nana of one and beleive me when I say they ALL develope at their own pace!!! And you did say she is talking, so just be patient and throw all those “supposed to be” thingys away!!! BTW she’s beautiful!
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Leila has been doing the “whiny” Leila since about 10 months. Around her 1st birthday she added in the throwing herself to the ground when she is upset and has yet to stop (she is at 15 months now) so feel lucky you havent endured it until now!
Don’t freak out about her development. All children develop in their own time. The good thing is that she is talking and saying some words. Chances are she understands a lot more than she lets on. I’ve seen kids walk at 9 months or not until they were 2, the same with talking. My cousin didn’t talk until she was 3 because she had glue ear.