Pointing Everywhere
During a span of calm yesterday, I heard Valerie saying to Ezra, ,,One. Nine. Three. Four. Seven. Seven. Eight. Night. Zero. Zero. Wall. Door. Floor. Stair…” and continue until she was able to distract Ezra with the fact I was near. This happened again this morning, but I was the one naming the object pointed at by Ezra, which happens every day.
It’s fun to do most of the time, but some times he points at the same object over and over and over and sometimes I only want to say, ,,Truck, car, tree, tree, tree, limb, tree, tree, leaf, leaf, leaf, leaf,” so many times, but what I want is second to giving Ezra what he needs for a better understanding of the world by connecting objects with words that he will hopefully someday use to communicate.
I also consider this pointing and naming of objects a warm-up to the Why Phase I have heard so much about.