Jaden's Milestones

It's a relief, I heard my Jaden's voice conversing with me. Although its just a one word, two words, sometimes three words, I can decipher what she is trying to say. A month ago she was just babbling, now there's a big difference. And just like what we did with ate Maisie, we don't encourage baby talk. I read an article before teaching parents to engage their toddlers in conversation. We talk to her in sentence form not in phrase. As pointed out by an article; Speech development in infant and toddler by Debbie Reese (with link http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content4/speech.develop.baby.pn.html) we don't finish a sentence for Jaden. We patiently wait for her "response".

Jaden already knows that her name is Jaden, although she can't pronounced it clearly. She also calls her ate, ate Issi.Everytime she does that, we aptly tell her its ate MMMMaisie so she'll know how her ate should be called. We are mama and papa to ate and Jaden. But when ate asked Jaden where is mommy, Jaden immediately point her fingers towards me. Ate can make an effective teacher,specially when she teaches ballet to Jaden and me. Jaden is also active, keeping up with ate's lead. She can run and can go small jumps. What interests us is that her body is so flexible. However, we are also scared when she follows ate doing a ballet split or a tumbling. It is a joy also to watch ate and Jaden play. Their laughter fills our home and my heart. Its exactly the opposite when they quarrel. I know these are stages, I just hope they outgrows this very soon.

Ate seems to be all grown up. I pray that simultaneous to her growing up is her growing patience and understanding for her baby sister. Jaden is entering the phase where she wants attention, the "ME" phase and very soon the terrible "twos".