Language development

I've been fascinated with the children's language development lately. It's so cute to watch Lucy as she soaks in tons of knowledge each day. She just got over a stage where she knew she wanted to create possessives when speaking, but she couldn't get it quite right. Instead of "Lucy's cup," she would say, "Lucy cups." Instead of "Nate's room," it was "Nate rooms." She just started getting it right in the last week or two. She also used both "it" and the object in a sentence: "Where is it, cup?" or today: "Cami bonked it head."

Nate is speaking very well. It's fun to watch him make "correct mistakes." That is, he has internalized a certain "rule" for language, but he doesn't know all the weird exceptions to the rule in English. For example, the other day he wanted me to put the deck of cards down so he could deal, but he wanted me to do it like Daddy did: "No Mama, don't do it softly. Do it hardly."