It's been a while since I wrote about Anya's language acquisition on this blog. Obviously, it's moved forwards by leaps and bounds. She can now say subject-verb sentences about all sorts of stuff, and I think she's starting to stretch it out to longer strings of words too.
With the usual caveats about 'did she really say what I think she said?' and 'did she just get it right by luck?', today she seemed to make another leap. We were walking up the road to the park when she spotted a couple of cats on the other pavement. This was too good an opportunity to miss so we headed over to say hello. And Anya called out: "Two cats!"
Now she's said "one-two-three-four" a few times so I think she understands the sound of counting. And we have a shape puzzle in the form of a clock, and a couple of counting books. But we certainly haven't tried to teach her this stuff, so I'm pretty amazed if she can spot two similar objects (or cats) and get the concept that they are a group of two. It's certainly not impossible: she understands about colours so she's worked out the adjective trick whereby objects can be modified by properties they have, so a circle can be red or blue etc. But still: if it's for real, she continues to amaze me.
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