counting to thirty

"... twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine, twenty ten!" (in Russian)

plural

Last night marked another stage in Elijah's language development. He started using plurals! He was playing on his bed shortly before bed time, and somehow got a hold of both of his comfort sweatshirts. I don't know who started it, Daddy or Elijah, but at some point Elijah was clearly pluralizing his version of "sweatshirt" by saying "Two wha-hahs". He was so pleased with himself that he kept saying it over and over and over. This morning we heard him say "two cahs". He used the plural on some other word too, but I can't remember what it was.

go, dog. go!

We were reading an abridged version of Dr. Seuss' book this morning. I am not sure what the original is called, but our little kid version is called "Go, Dog. Go!" We've read it a million times by now, and were going through it again. After the first read, Elijah took it out of my hands and was looking at the pictures very thoughtfully. "Are you going to read it yourself?" I asked him. And what do you think happened? He did! He turned page after page, and said all the right lines at all the right places. Clearly, he wasn't reading it in the true sense of the word, but I was still pretty impressed. It doesn't take much, eh? :)