Peter Pan

Esme continues to amaze me with what she picks up and how - she sang this little rising tune (kind of like the opening part of the Disney DVD menu) while doing an 'engarde' stance with her wooden playset knife as a 'sword'. I knew she meant the swordfighting in Peter Pan a few days ago (the only part of that movie she truly paid attention to the first time through). We then proceeded to have a long but gentle swordfight around the house watching out for alligators in the process. It was VERY funny, and I had a hard time resisting that combination of song/stance - she knew that, and kept me playing by repeating it.

Mark found a fish shaped rock out in the woods yesterday and Esme is fascinated with it. It is pretty cool! We have been 'cooking' it with the wooden knife and lemon and bread.

I've noticed a lot of 'long babble strings' in Esme's speech again this week. It's not stuttering, because there really isn't any actual 'word' she comes up with at all. She starts out with a good sentence, then cuts to a lot of 'nonsense' sounds and then back to 'upside-down grammar', which is the norm right now for her. In the past she has done that exact thing before she picks up a whole new set of words. My thoughts: She wants to say words in between but when she gets to the point to put the new word in she can't find the right one, so after a moment she gives up and goes back to what she knows will get the point across.

'You Mumum read the book ****long babble string of sounds**** the mice book, the book, the mice, Mumum you read.'
'OK. Mumum read the book about the mice?'
'Yea. the book, the mice.'