On the back of the door that leads upstairs she added some clear contact paper; she must know clear contact paper is mommy's best friend. Clear contact paper is a cheap and quick lamination if you do not have a machine, it allows stickers to be peel and stick and there are a million things you can do with it. Once she had covered the back of the door with clear contact paper she cut to fit; she then spelled out Spencer's Words with foam sticky letters. The learning fairy then added eight first word flash cards that included several things he is already familiar with and a few new words.
Across the top row of cards are: Shoe, Dog, Bus, and Cup
Across the bottom row of cards are: Cat, Ball, Sock, and Car.
As soon as little S saw them he ran up and pointed to each of the cards and I said the word. Then he would point over and over again to different ones or the same ones and each time I said the words. I gave M specific instructions to always answer what the word is and to pronounce it clearly (M mumbles). Little S also pointed out his name and said his version of each of the letters (lots of e's and r's) then pointed to the other letters in the word "words" and mommy said each letter for him. He LOVED it.
We have continued to use it daily.. Sometimes I point to something and say the word.. other times he points and mommy says the words. Sometimes mommy points to the shoe and says go get yours we're out of here. He even matched them himself one day as I had a large stack of the first word flash cards on my desk; he grabbed them and ran to the door and tried to match the cards in the pile he had to the ones on the door. Only.. his wouldn't stay on the door like the magic ones the fairy left us.
Little S's vocabulary really consists currently of: Yeah, No, Noooooooo, Hey, howya doing?, bye bye, night night, off, mom, momma, and dada (when he's feeling generous). He does really great at understanding a ton of words and follows two or three step directions but his tongue still speaks alien and although we talk all day most of it sounds like "blah, giggle, giggle. gerbel and other various sounds"
When I say we talk all day I mean it. We had the funniest experience the other day while shopping. We had an entire conversation like we usually do where his answers are completely appropriate. I have made it a game of sorts for myself to be able to have a running dialogue with him that would make sense if you were in the same isle with us. For example Do you think we should get some cream cheese for Daddy? Nooooooo ok no cream cheese for daddy. Do you think he'll notice? yeah. really you think he might notice we didn't get him any cream cheese? hum no. Yeah I didn't think he would notice either. or Do you think we should get ______ <enter item here> for dinner tomorrow? yes or no determines if we get it or not. I let his opinion matter so he recognizes that the word he chooses means something and that he and his choices matter to me. While at the store the other day we came across two older women ( One was in her late 60's and the other looked to be in her 80's and in a wheel chair) who had heard some of our discussion and commented about his answering. I replied that I was looking forward to when not every answer was a no. They laughed and we all went about our shopping.. We ran into them again 10 isles later and little S and I were still having our conversation and they both we're really happy to see him and waved and smiled (he is a huge flirt and a charmer). After forever at the deli counter we ended up in line behind them at the check out. Oh.. it's you guys, big smiles, did he learn to say something other than no yet? I laughed and pointed at what he was doing (grabbing the toilet paper from our cart and putting it on the conveyor belt with their things) No but he has apparently decided you need this more than we do and everyone laughed. Even if he doesn't say a bunch of words I know he and I while we had a super time made two strangers laugh and smile through their shopping trip also.
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