Well the kids sailed through their 19 month Birthday. Dylan has finally recovered from his bout of Gastro. That was when Emma started to show symptoms as well as me. Emma is having a hard time with it. She throws up at least twice a day and takes the nappies past their design specification. We go through a lot of outfits and bed clothes. It has been hard on all of us.
Dylan lost quite a bit of weight with his gastro. He is down to 11.92kg. We have also had to take him down a nappy size, so he is now the same as Emma on a 4+. He must have been wearing a 5 since he was about 9 months so this is really a change for him. Emma is also down to 11.54kg.
The kids' communication skills are also coming along although their vocabulary is still very limited. They seem to now be babbling to each other. They babble a bit and then the other one seems to understand and do something. On a more real note though their true vocabulary of baby words is about five.
1. There is daa with an emphasis on the last a, that I don’t have the language skills to spell properly. Dylan started this first when he wants you to give him his bottle instead of he drinking himself, which he can do but won’t. Emma has also adopted this and it is always used when you should do something for them or they are giving you something and saying “here it is, it’s yours”.
2. Tata. This was their first word first used by Emma. It is now used in a whole number of contexts. Dylan adopted using the word too. The best context he used it in the other day was when he no longer wanted his lunch, he pushed it away and said ‘tata’. Emma’s latest is to say goodnight to the Christmas tree before she goes to bed. She does it with great gusto as though she is saying goodnight to a visitor. Running up to the Christmas tree and saying ‘tata’ while waving wildly.
3. Thhhhhhh. This is not really a word but something that Emma started doing while eating about exactly a year ago. Then when things were ugly or stinky we would say Thhhhhh to her. She would love it and say Thhhhh for the next 5 minutes. So more recently Dylan and Emma would point at a dustbin or something stinky and go Thhhhhhh. We love it and they use it regularly.
4. Num Num. This started from us saying before their food that they would have num num food. They don't quite get the pronunciation right but they now call all food num nu. They have made the association with the cats food at well. When they help to feed the cats they say num nu. It really is cute.
5. Mama. They use this indiscriminately. It often does refer to their Mom but not always.
Anyway we understand them very well.
Here is a short video of the kids playing on the patio at home with their beach toys:
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