So it's obvious when the kids have grown and start really speaking even more clearly, but there are so many more little (but really major) cognitive developments that have been going on. In the past 3 months, the kids are speaking even better. They are now at the point that they think and speak. Before it was more like we would tell them what to say and now they will say, on their own "I don't want spicy milk. Can I have chlocate (chocolate) milk please?" or "Grandma, where is your pink sweater?" - bet you can't guess who says that! They really think! They express things that have happened in the past, that are happening and that will happen.
And they get spatial relationships. Kyle the other day learned that if he folds a square napkin, he can turn it into a triangle or a rectangle depending on how you do it. And he gets that it can be turned back into the square after making a triangle or rectangle. And they know most of their letters very well, remarking at all the letters they see around them. And they mentally rotate objects. They know that a W is an upside-down M and vice versa. There was another object of mental rotation that was striking, but it's escaping me now. It's a fun, new, stage now that they are really real, little people who can communicate easily!
And they get spatial relationships. Kyle the other day learned that if he folds a square napkin, he can turn it into a triangle or a rectangle depending on how you do it. And he gets that it can be turned back into the square after making a triangle or rectangle. And they know most of their letters very well, remarking at all the letters they see around them. And they mentally rotate objects. They know that a W is an upside-down M and vice versa. There was another object of mental rotation that was striking, but it's escaping me now. It's a fun, new, stage now that they are really real, little people who can communicate easily!
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hmmm pink sweater might be Em?
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