GD1 wasn’t speaking much when she was 23 months old. D1 was ready to hire a speech therapist. She started to talk right around her birthday. Now we can’t shut her stop. She is like her Dad, talking/negotiating all the time.
GD1 has an amazing memory. I took her to FA Schwartz last summer. We are going to see the tree and visit the store again. She said to her mom, “I hope the lion is still there. I want to see him again.” I have totally forgotten about the lion.
Few summers ago when we were on vacation in Spain, I got a bit sick on a boat. GD1 was a bit over 2 years old. Recently when she got sick in a car (1.5 yr later) she said to her Dad, “Po-po gets sick on boat.” We never talked about my seasick issue after it happened.
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My GD (who will be 4 at the end of December) speaks English and Russian. My SIL was born in Russia and came to the US when he was 2 years old; he speaks to GD mostly in English but also in Russian.
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I love that so many of our Grands are growing up multilingual.
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I was going to say the same thing!
One of my GD loves to use the Spanish she learns in school, and my D actually double majored in Spanish, but no longer uses it due to a job change. GD does use British words and pronunciations like her father; does that count? 
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I thought I would link this thread that we started in May which might give you all some good info about communication development. Many of you have probably skimmed it already.
While the title mentions speech therapy…really, there is good info about development too.
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My GD got everyone at her house sick, and D ended up with a sinus infection & double ear infection. Even the dog got in on the fun … she was diagnosed with pancreatitis today. H & I watched GD twice this week, and we wore masks. GD drew smiles on them!
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OK, my 2 yo GS is mostly over his pink eye, but Twin B has it now. Twin A and mom have some sort of gastroenteric virus with Twin A waking up before 5am this morning to vomit all over her bed (the top bunk!). She was running a pretty high fever too. Mom was awake all last night with intense nausea and a headache.
So far SIL and I are still standing. We’ll see how long that lasts.
But fortunately, all the sick kids has discouraged SIL’s sister and Her family from staying with us for the holidays. They’ll stay with SIL’s parents (her parents too) who live about 35 minutes away. (Which is s good thing since D1 will be working 6 nights straight starting December 27th so she will sleeping during the day and the house needs to be quiet. Also we don’t have any available guest beds for them to sleep in. They would have had to camp out on the living room couches. Nana and Pop Pop have 2 guest rooms.)
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Oh my! Hang in there.
We are finally almost over whatever nasty 
virus the grands dragged in. Took 3 weeks to get back to almost normal… and one of those weeks was our vacation!
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I’m also finally getting over the nasty cold/RSV/not-covid-at-least that the Grands brought to Thanksgiving. I only felt ill the first week, but I’ve had a violent cough that is finally waning. Good thing they’re cute!
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We traveled to TX to be with the grands, and were staying in Dallas/Ft Worth/Arlington area for two nights - last year we stayed with a cousin who was planning on hosting us again, but her DH came down with a fever and some kind of crud. So cousin’s sister pitch hit and it worked out great. They were all part of our family crowd at a big Thanksgiving. When we lived in TX we saw a lot of them, and they grew up in WI with DH.
GD1 has an occasional cough, and her mom keeps telling her to cough into her arm and if she does into her hands she needs to use GermX. Last year we suffered no terrible illness, nor did I with 5 weeks total (on two trips to assist).
But definitely know how bad it can get. DH had walking pneumonia after weeks of trying to ‘get over’ upper respiratory. He even had a 6 month PCP appointment, and at the time his lungs were good and he thought he was getting over it. I almost lost my voice at the worst of it, and it was about a week of me feeling puny.
Hope y’all can enjoy Christmas Season/Holiday Season despite being sidetracked with illness.
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GD1 is staying with me this weekend. Yesterday D2 and her husband took GD1 to the Rockefeller center to see the tree. It was a mob scene. We then tried to go to FAO Schwartz, but decided against it when the wait was over an hour. We took her to the American Girl Doll place because there was no wait. We ended the day with a lunch at Din Tai Fung. GD1 was so exhausted she fell asleep on the way home. It takes a lot of energy to have fun.
We are making Xmas cookies this morning.
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I just got photos from D1, her husband, and GD; they are visiting my younger D and fiance in NYC and went to Rockefeller Center, American Girl, and are now going to lunch. GD wants to go on the Staten Island Ferry so they may do that later. Tomorrow morning they’ll drive up to MA!!! We’re excited!!
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Just want to say our 5 mo GS loves this from Target- his favorite- He even ‘fights with it’. If you’re looking for a quick fun thing -
this is it.
Make Believe ideas LION hand puppet soft cloth book $9.99
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GD is very excited about Christmas because Santa is coming. She spent the morning making a snowman with SIL and then after her nap she came to our house and helped me put sprinkles on cutout cookies. She was very meticulous about sprinkle placement.
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Add my GS to the partially bilingual. When he wants more water to drink he says “agua”. He also has gracias and leche in his vocabulary.
We all (except SIL) started our 2 week holiday breaks yesterday. DW and I both had some shopping to do yesterday se we went to and with DW and took GS to REI. He had a blast wandering around.
We did have our 1st less than great restaurant experience last night. GS was tired and wasn’t interested in any of the food. DD and SIL did an amazing job of keeping him from totally losing it.
Today, post church I did nap and got GS to go down in his pack-N-play for the 1st time ever (he is 16 months old). We ended the night with dinner at our neighborhood joint. Highlight was when tonight’s manager was carrying GS around and let him hit buttons on the POS system and carry checks to tables. It was a crazy night and the place was packed but Mr Jose wanted to make sure his buddy got to hang with him and get some love.
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GD1-7 has been wondering about Santa. When she asked her dad he said there is evidence both ways. But last night we watched the newer version of “Miracle on 34th St” and today she confirmed that Santa is real and the workshop on the North Pole is invisible as Kris Kringle said.
I told GD1-7 not to talk about her ‘non-belief’ around her siblings, because they believe.
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When I was of age to non-believe, my parents told me to make sure I pretended to younger sister. So I did, for years. At some point, she figured it out, and then told her friends that her clueless older sister still believed.
I’m a big fan of them believing as long as possible, but I still feel betrayed by that story, lol.
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My S never believed. He just insisted it was not logical. I told him never to talk to younger sister about this because it would upset her a great deal. I’m unsure when D realized the truth because she played along for a very longtime so she got gifts from us AND santa.
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SIL doesn’t want to encourage believing in Santa because he remembers how upset he was when he found out that his parents had been lying to him for years. So we mostly talk about how gifts come from people who love us–parents, grand parents, aunts, uncles, cousins…
The other day in the car, Twin B, age 4, spontaneously said there must be lots and lots of Santas because there are too many houses for one Santa to visit. She decided there must be one Santa in each house. Which is pretty close to the truth…
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My D was a believer and has fond memories, so her D gets to believe - although D is careful to tell her that Santa only brings limited presents, and family gives the rest. OTOH, my S has never forgiven me for what he calls the Santa Lie. He believed even after his friends told him there’s no Santa, because he absolutely refused to believe that adults - especially his mom - would lie. So he finally asked, I told him, and he has maintained ever since that Santa caused him to question everything he’s told. Ouch! He doesn’t plan to have kids, but if he did, I guarantee that there would be no Santa for his kid.
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