Penelope's language skills seem to be improving every day. Her speech is getting clearer. She's putting together sentences and figuring out how to say a lot of things that she couldn't before. I love this phase.. seeing them make these giant leaps of linguistic logic. I say "them" because even though Ben is in a different place altogether, he is still doing his fair share of learning the language too.
Even though they are in totally different worlds, one thing they have in common - and I'm sure most little kids are the same - is that they can be incredibly literal. Ben has started reading all the street signs in the car again, now that we're living in a new neighborhood and all the signs are different. He read a sign in the car a few days ago, "Shoulder Dropoff... Mommy! How do you take your shoulders off? I can't even get my arms off!"
And then there's Penelope at a restaurant last weekend. She had two plates near her: the one we had put her dinner on, and a plate full of rice. She'd finished most of the food on her plate, and was taking rice from the rice plate and putting it on her own. Then she would take that same rice off her plate and eat it. She was also spilling some of it on the table in the process, and making her standard two-year-old-in-a-restaurant mess. Stephanie told her "Oh Penelope - don't worry about putting that on your plate. You can just eat the rice right from this plate." Within a second, she was face down, eating rice directly from the plate.
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