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Monday, May 02, 2005 - (see all news for this day)
new words, drawing, recognising objects - 12:41 PM
(filed under 'baby')
an update for you (well, for me really so i don't forget in the future) on some of smiley's new skills.
he has heaps more words now, most of which i can't remember, but a few very recent ones are "clock", "star" & "naughty". he was pointing to some mcgarnicle poos on the carpet this morning (fortunately he doesn't go in the house very often, but when he's locked in overnight you can't really blame him if we don't wake when he whines) & saying "naughty." it sounds more like 'nordy'.
he was also pointing to the places where he drew on my plastic storage box with his crayons & saying, "naughty."
he's getting really good at drawing now, too. mostly he just scribbles all over the page, but he asks us to draw things for him sometimes (usually a cat or a car, but occasionally a chicken) & will colour them in. he does pretty well. obviously he doesn't keep within the lines, but he does a lot better than i would have thought for an almost twenty month old. you can definitely tell what particular object on the page that he's colouring in.
he holds his crayons really well. he doesn't just hold them in a clenched fist. he holds them with his thumb & three fingers like a grown up does & controls it with his wrist & fingers, not his whole arm. he has those skinny type crayons that are contained within a pen-like tube & which you twist the end to move the crayon part outwards as it gets used up.
he's also really good now at recognising objects in a book. we can read one of his picture books with him & ask him where a certain object is & he'll point to the right one.
he's such a clever little boy. 
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i'd say he comes by it naturally.