Names

Stanley has been progressing on names in the last few weeks. Yesterday, Halima mentioned that both boys now say 'Ma' for Hali-MA. For example, Atoo Ma = Open the door Halima. It took her a bit to confirm, but then this morning I asked Stanley who Halima was and he said Ma.

I have turned into Mama quite consistently. And, Stanley  now says the names of his two grandmothers. EE= Lele  and OO= Lolo. Pretty good since 'L''s can be very hard to say.

And, when pointing to pictures, Stanley says Papa for both Papa Doug and Grandpa Tom.

The only person really missing is poor father. Stanley has a variety of names for Steve: Dada, Papa and ... Mama. He plays all of the roles well, but hopefully Stanley narrows the list down to Dada or Papa soon.

As for his own name he does say something for it, but I haven't pinpointed how to spell it yet. He also will say 'me', but he does not have the concept yet of me is only himself. And, thinking of confusing concepts, he uses the words 'up' and 'down' quite often, however, he says up when he is up on something and wants to get down and uses down when he is down and wants to go up. I guess this could be confusing.

Reading with Lele last week