speach at 16 months

haha. It's just so cute when they do speak. Jude says Daaa. I love it.

Einstein is quite the paradox huh?

Love the spelling mistake Memo.

They say you should only worry at age 3. Some kids talk at a young age (and trust me you wish they didn't) and others only start much later. At 3 have a hearing test done first to rule out ear issues especially if your child had had many ear infections.

Dylan sings. Alot. Everywhere. At the top of his voice. He changes the words to the songs. It is really sweet and loud especially at 5 in the morning.

I swear alot. Didn't before I had Dylan nor did Neil, but it is obvious that kids take a toll on us and swearing is a good way of letting go of stress.

Dylan hasn't coppied F*&k as yet. I am positive he will. He has walked around saying "Oh my god, oh my god which would be thanks to mom. I type god using a lower case as I do not use it with the intention of being blasphemist.

He also says crap. Again thanks to me. Shocking I know.

He is a parrot now though so we really should be careful.

Enjoy the not talking... soon they hit 5 and you have to remind them to breath between talking...
Otherwise dont stress, Einstein only spoke at 4.

In terms of swearing, I do swear like a drunk sailor on TIK, though I do attempt to limit this around my kids.

But my favourite is when a child asks :"Please may I have a FORK 'n KNIFE" in a loud voice.

There is just no right way to say that. I enjoy it every time.

But yes, swearing is bad.
I am not suggesting you encourage it.

But if a child says "John Cino" or "I love Justin Bieber" it is worse, I would rather them say "fkn hell!"

However my daughter does say "Good Gawd" every now and then in a slow drawl when something spectacular happens. i.e. there is sweetcorn for dinner or something.

She did not get that from me ...... really.

Didn't they test this on mythbusters the other day (yes sorry, the husband is in charge of the remote, then falls asleep while I listen to whatever he put the tv on!) That you can handle pain better when you swear real swear words (they tested it against saying nothing while in pain and saying stupid words like chair and fish instead of swearing) And as mothers I think we are always in some sort of pain

With regards to swearing I stopped the minute B started imitating us (one specific incident: we were driving in ct looking for a place had to turn around twice, the second time hubby said "ag goeie donder" then a little voice came from behind "donnnnnner" yeah, uhm oops. She was still facing backwards then so she was under a year.

But getting back to the question, I wouldn't worry about it too much.
B was a freak of nature or something, before she turned 15 months I made a list of words, I stopped at 50. She was in her new class (the potties) for 2 months when I said something about her birthday and the lady looking after her said "oh, she's turning 3 soon" I'm like no, in 4 months she turns 2.

But she was a LATE teether and almost has no hair on her head still and she couldn't climb on the couch till about 18 months. My father always says one thing stands still while something else develops.

Do you swear alot? It always seems like the moomies dont swear much.. we are so polite.. I too swear ALOT... And dh tends to do stupid things like 'grind' me.. and dont know how else to explain this. And then I see Jude staaaaring at us! Whats the matter with him! I worry more that he might pick up on this sort of thing. Very embarresing.
Anyway, Boudoir is french or something..its a difficult word.