WALKING AND TALKING
When I was still pregnant with the boys, I received two calendars from a Formula Company. The calendars were “Baby’s First Year: A Progressive Calendar”. I kept track of everything the boys accomplished in these calendars (and I highly recommend these calendars to everyone). It’s sure fun, 9 years later, looking at them again and reliving their first year.
So, in these calendars I kept track of everything the boys did during their first year: crawling, teeth, weight, height, rolling over, smiling, walking, talking – I mean, EVERYTHING! The calendars were especially handy when we took Logan to speech therapy at 2 years old. I was able to look back and see when he started talking. In the back of the calendar I had also written what funny words they said for what (Bees for Bus, Main for Plane, etc.). So, not only can these calendars be a great remembrance item, they can also be a great tool for medical reasons (or for writing articles about your children).
When the boys turned 1 year old, I finished writing in these calendars and had them out at their birthday party. My husbands’ parents, his brother Gary and his other brother, David and his wife, Linda were visiting. One day, Linda was reading through the calendars. All of a sudden, she started laughing and laughing. I, personally, didn’t think the calendars were that funny; so had to ask what she found so funny. Now remember, I wrote everything in these calendars – EVERYTHING!
At 2 months old, I had written that Alec said, “Hey” and Logan said, “Uh, huh” and at 4 months old Alec said, “Doggie” and Logan said, “Ma Ma.” Fact is that the boys didn’t really start “talking” until around 8 months – but I’m pretty sure I heard them say those things! Even at 8 months old, they only said things like, “Ma, ma” – but they were saying something!
I also have written in the calendars that at 4 months old, the boys started “talking” to each other. Now, I’m assuming that most people have heard of “Twinspeak”. This is a phenomenon that occurs with multiple birth children. Basically, it is thought that some sets of twins have their own language that they alone understand. I never bought into this idea and we never saw this in our own children. But, other people told us that Alec and Logan had their own language. One day at church, the boys were in the nursery. When we picked them up, the nursery attendant said that they had been chatting away to each other. She couldn’t understand anything they had said, but they seemed to understand each other just fine. Kind of creepy to think about, huh?
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