A Word a Day

Here at the Schmuff house our vocabulary is expanding.  It seems like every day one of the babies is learning a new word.  Adelaide picks up on new sounds and new words quicker than Titus. If you point to something and tell her what it is, she always tries to repeat you. Sometimes she surprises us with what words she will say. She has said necklace, which seems like it would be hard to say. She also says many simple words, such as duck, dog, and baby. 


Titus doesn’t seem to care as much about words, but says some basic words.  The main ones he says are baby, dog, duck, and that. Every so often he surprises us by saying something different. I am pretty sure he knows the words, but just doesn’t care to say them. 

During our “school” time, which is basically me telling them the letters and sounds, they will repeat the sounds of the letters.  I don’t think they are making the letter/sound connection yet, but they are still learning to make new sounds. 

With them learning and repeating words it really makes Matt and I think about the things we say. The other day we were riding in the car and I said, “Darn”. Adelaide promptly repeated it. Not that “darn” is a bad word, it just made us  realize how our children copy everything we do even at this young age. We are the biggest example Titus and Adelaide have and we need to make sure we are always setting the right example. Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”  Matt and I want to train Titus and Adelaide to be godly people, and one of the best ways to do that is to be a good example, with our actions and our words.

I know everyone reads the blog just so they can see cute pictures. So he is Adelaide pretending she is Rocky.