Our baby is now officially a Toddler at 13+ months he is walk/running everywhere. And his vocabulary is growing quite a bit. Unfortunately one of his favorite phrases to say recently sounds like "oh shit." He walks around the apartment now saying "oh shit, oh shit, oh shit" and everyone asks if that's really what he's saying. I may have said "shit" once or twice but usually its just once, probably because I'm a klutz and can't walk without hurting or burning myself. I don't walk around all day cursing like my potty mouth kid. It's actually really funny and its hard not to laugh or egg him on. We are such terrible parents encouraging language like this in a kid who doesn't even say Mama or Dada to us yet.
Aside from the cursing I wonder if we are confusing him on what things are. When I say, "Where's Mama?" Instead of pointing to me he will point to a picture of us on the wall. Great, now not only does he not know I'm Mama, he thinks the picture of me is Mama. I feel like an absentee mother.
He points to everything and we will name things as best we can, but some things we've taught him the English word and other things we've taught him the Russian word and his babysitters all speak Spanish, or English with a Spanish accent. I've heard kids in bilingual household take longer to speak so I guess for now we'll be using the universal language of cursing. Oh *&$%!
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