Lex was an early talker and has always had
an impressive vocabulary for his age. He has been frustrating
me lately though because his enunciation has gone from
“acceptable for a toddler” to downright unintelligible. Maybe
it’s because I usually understand him so he doesn’t bother
trying anymore? I’ve been working with him on looking at people
when he talks to them (he prefers to look at anything but the
person he’s talking to) and using people’s names. Now I have to
start getting him to speak more clearly — like he used to!
It’s interesting to see him with other kids though. For a long
time he was ahead of the crowd, but now a lot of the kids are
speaking very clearly, using people’s names, saying please and
thank you, and sounding like little people. Suddenly my little
guy isn’t leading the way! It’s a shocker, I know. I’m not even
concerned with that so much as suddenly I can’t understand a
lot of what he says. :/