Now that he's talking nonstop...

[luvflorida]

...we just never know what is going to come out of his mouth!

Our grandson was a late talker. He didn't utter a word until he was around twenty months or so. He is now two and a half, and talks all the time!

The other day, I was saying the first part of the following rhyme, and Carter would say the rest of each line:
Me: One, two...
Carter: buckle my shoe
Me: Three, four...
Carter: shut the door
Me: Five, six...
Carter: pick up sticks
Me: seven, eight...
Carter: lay them.....*long pause*....over there!
And I thought we had this rhyming thing down.

Last night, my husband and I took Carter to see the new movie HOP. Before we left, my husband was showing Carter a trailer from the movie on his iPad, just so he could get a feel for what the movie was about. Our grandson loves animals and he loves drums, so we figured it would be a winning combination.

Just as we were walking into the theatre, Carter looks at his grampa and says, "I don't want to see the bunny movie here. I want to go home and see it on your pad."

When we returned from the theatre (he did decide to stay and watch it afterall ) Carter wanted to get the drumsticks out and play on the rock band set. I was telling him how I thought he was a good drummer and that he was just like the bunny in the movie. He looked at me very seriously and said, "I don't have big ears like the bunny. I have regular ears."

Here is my sweet "regular ears" grandson playing the drums. He informed me, "I'm being Ringo."

 

[IdesOmarch]

He's really cute. Mine is almost 4, she won't stop singing. She'll watch her cartoons and sing (really really loud) along with every single song that comes on. She is so loud, (she has her own TV), but its so loud no one can hear the other TV all the way across the house. Its really funny.

 

[Katy Belle]

So sweet! My first son talked nearly immediately Well, really, really early. Second DS would say "Daggy" which meant Mommy and Daddy and "Bubba" and that was IT... until 16 months old. I got his hair cut and weaned him and he started talking and talking and talking! I swear, after the haircut it was "Mom, could you please hand me the red ball." OK, maybe not that extreme, but really close, from nothing, to sentences. He is now 13 and NEVER shuts up!

 

[Missy1961]

He is just wonderful! I love the fact that he knows who Ringo is.

One of my nieces was a late talker. Someone warned my brother that 'once she starts, she won't stop', and boy is it true! She turns 17 in June and I don't think she ever stops talking.

 

[mousebymarriage]

My DS9 was the same way, he said basically nothing until he was 2 years old but, once he started talking...holy moly that kid never shuts up. He even talk to himself in the shower! Some times I just have to say "Michael, please just 5 minutes with no talking", he always says "o.k. mom but, I have to tell you one quick thing first", his onequick thing usually lasts 10 minutes.

 

[momrek06]

Oh luv, what a LOVE!!!!!!

My FIL wrote all the adorable cute things down that my 2 DS' said when they were little. Yup, he kept a little notepad in his shirt pocket and every time they would say something he or MIL thought was hysterical, out came the pad and pen!!!! Years later, my FIL/MIL put together quite the collage with all the hysterical things DS1&2 said. We roared when we read it!!!!!

 

[luvflorida]

He's really cute. Mine is almost 4, she won't stop singing. She'll watch her cartoons and sing (really really loud) along with every single song that comes on. She is so loud, (she has her own TV), but its so loud no one can hear the other TV all the way across the house. Its really funny.

Ha! Ha! My middle daughter was always a singer! I can remember taking her for walks in her stroller when she was not quite two, and she'd sit there singing all kinds of nursery rhymes and kid songs. She is now an adult and still loves to sing!

So sweet! My first son talked nearly immediately Well, really, really early. Second DS would say "Daggy" which meant Mommy and Daddy and "Bubba" and that was IT... until 16 months old. I got his hair cut and weaned him and he started talking and talking and talking! I swear, after the haircut it was "Mom, could you please hand me the red ball." OK, maybe not that extreme, but really close, from nothing, to sentences. He is now 13 and NEVER shuts up!

Sounds just like our grandson! His language skills have grown remarkably over the past few months. He has gone from one word utterances to complete (and sometimes complex) sentences in a very short time span!

He is just wonderful! I love the fact that he knows who Ringo is.

I'm a first-generation (and huge!) Beatles fan, so it is imperative that I make sure our grandchildren know all about the Beatles! Like my own three kids, Carter has grown up listening to Beatles music. His dad is a high school music teacher, and Carter LOVES to visit him at school and play on the drum set in his dad's music room!

Carter will play on anything around our house with the drumsticks from rock band. He sings "She loves you...yeah, yeah, yeah" and then he says, "bow" and he bows like the Beatles used to do in the early years.

He really surprised me the other day when he picked up the drumsticks at our house. He told me as he started playing the drumpads, "I'm being Ringo." He then picked up what I thought he was going to call a guitar, but he said, "Here, grumma, you be Paul. Paul plays the bass."

 

[luvflorida]

My DS9 was the same way, he said basically nothing until he was 2 years old but, once he started talking...holy moly that kid never shuts up. He even talk to himself in the shower! Some times I just have to say "Michael, please just 5 minutes with no talking", he always says "o.k. mom but, I have to tell you one quick thing first", his onequick thing usually lasts 10 minutes.

Too funny! Carter's mom and dad sometimes refer to him as Morgan Freeman, because they say Carter is always narrating everything. "I'm putting this train on this track, and now I'm putting a truck over here..."

Oh luv, what a LOVE!!!!!!

My FIL wrote all the adorable cute things down that my 2 DS' said when they were little. Yup, he kept a little notepad in his shirt pocket and every time they would say something he or MIL thought was hysterical, out came the pad and pen!!!! Years later, my FIL/MIL put together quite the collage with all the hysterical things DS1&2 said. We roared when we read it!!!!!

Cute! And a wonderful idea! I think I'll start such a notebook on Carter. His baby sister isn't saying much yet, although she's trying very hard to make baby sounds.

 

[minkydog]

...we just never know what is going to come out of his mouth!

Our grandson was a late talker. He didn't utter a word until he was around twenty months or so. He is now two and a half, and talks all the time!

The other day, I was saying the first part of the following rhyme, and Carter would say the rest of each line:
Me: One, two...
Carter: buckle my shoe
Me: Three, four...
Carter: shut the door
Me: Five, six...
Carter: pick up sticks
Me: seven, eight...
Carter: lay them.....*long pause*....over there!
And I thought we had this rhyming thing down.

Great pics, btw. Aren't they fun when they're really understanding language?

My oldest was like yours. Never spoke an intelligible word until 2wks prior to his 2nd birthday. One evening he said, "Guess what I got?" What??Did you just say something? "I got yogurt." And so he did. And after that he never shut up. I have to tell you, my boy loved/loves everything about language. He hated school, except for when they read Shakespeare and Brit Lit, or did plays. John is one of the best read young men I know. Maybe it's because he did a lot of listening

He's really cute. Mine is almost 4, she won't stop singing. She'll watch her cartoons and sing (really really loud) along with every single song that comes on. She is so loud, (she has her own TV), but its so loud no one can hear the other TV all the way across the house. Its really funny.

My DD18 was like this. She talked early, 13 months, in two-three word sentences, and she started singing about the same time. Lordy, she could sing! And now she's going off to college in the fall to major in musical theater. I guess all those lessons and Sing-Along Songs paid off. No telling where your daughter's voice will take her!

 

[PigletsPal2]

Once when DD#2 was about six, she had talked non-stop from waking at about 7:30 am 'til about 8:00 pm. Finally, I said "Honey! Hush! You have talked ALL DAY LONG!" She laughed and said "I know; I bet you wish I would get a case of lah-rig-a-NEE-tus!"

Dumbfounded, I said, "What?" She said, "You know, lah-rig-a-NEE-tus, when you lose your voice."

Once I finally stopped laughing five minutes later, I gave her the correct pronunciation and a pat on the back for effort. She had seen the word in writing and knew what it meant, but she had never heard it verbalized, so best-guessed how to pronounce it. I thought she did pretty well for a 6-y.o.!

We still call it lah-rig-a-NEE-tus!

BTW, she's now a professional writer and editor.

Queen Colleen