Saturday, 17 October 2009
Growing Autonomy
It's been a while since I've written a James update, but that isn't because he hasn't been growing! He now feeds himself, and is starting to talk—in both English and French! A lot more French than English, but unfortunately that is to be expected since his mother and day care both speak French to him, and he only sees me for about 20 minutes a day on weekdays. So the only things I've heard him say in English so far are "ball", "shoes" and "bye-bye"—and just today he repeated "I love you" back to his mother, which had her bouncing with joy :-) In French he can say "au revoir", "regarde", as well as "nez", "bouche", and probably about a dozen other words, although not all of them with much regularity.
This is because James' own priority is not on learning to talk. It is on playing with his toy cars. Those are his obsession and he enjoys driving them around on everything: bookshelves, tables, floors, and even up the wall! Usually the first thing he will do when he gets up in the morning or when we get home from somewhere is go running to his toy box to dig out the toy cars and start driving them on the coffee table. He's also a voracious reader, and my twenty weekday minutes a day with him are usually spent by him gradually stacking up books on my lap until he decides that I have a big enough stockpile, then he climbs on the couch next to me and waits for me to read them to him.
New pictures are up on his web page (password required), showing highlights of the last three months, including trips to the zoo, his great-grandmother's 100th birthday, and some of his aforementioned toys.
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