Syllables, Short Sentences and a Question

My eldest has been storing away and learning lots of words for a while now. In the past she has pointed to things and when I've told her what they are she’s stored it away ready to say the next time she sees it. This is most apparent on our geocaching trips. The most notable of which is when we saw windmills in Godington and she wanted to get closer.

I've noticed that when she speaks. She often just recites half of the word such as ‘ries’ or ‘strawbs’ for you guessed it strawberries or ‘ban’ for banana. It seems one syllable is enough to get through to us so why bother with the rest? Of course there are many one syllable words too such as ‘phone’, ‘car’, ‘keys’ and ‘house’ to name but a few. The most recited word at the moment following our visit to Flywheel recently is ‘plane’.

Many of these words can be strung together to make simple sentences and even a question has arisen. That question is ‘what’s that?’ and is usually accompanied by a television programme. Of course she knows the title of the programme that she has chosen to question but wants me to tell her. I guess she is trying to make conversation and thus I answer her question with one myself ‘what do you think it is?’ to which she replies ‘it’s [insert title of programme here]’.

It’s lovely to see her making conversation but I'm already wondering whether she’ll be bombarding me with questions I truly don’t know all the answers to and reminding me of a wonderful local musician’s piece.  

I am writing this post in line with Louise from Little Hearts Big Love linky From the Mouths of Babes. I see this as a great way to capture the present and preserve it for future reference.