Saturday, May 09, 2009

Kaio is "bapi"

Kaio is progressing very well with his words. When we read books (which he is always asking for) we point at various objects and he says what it is (in his toddler vocabulary that mainly only parents understand) . Some are in Portuguese and some in English. It also works the other way around, when we ask him where the fish, bird, boat, tree, cloud, etc is (in either language) he points at it. His vocabulary is clearly expanding and sometimes I am surprised he picked up a word I said only once!
One word we have taught him is 'happy'. When he is happy we tell him about his feeling (I read a book that said it is important for children to be able to express their feelings since they sometimes have a hard time dealing with them). Kaio now says 'bapi' when he is happy and smiling, when he sees pictures of people smiling he also says 'bapi'! We now have to work on the 'sad', 'angry', 'frustrated', etc but let's take it one word at a time!

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