colors, colors everywhere

madelyn has added colors to her vocabulary. she has been able to hand us colored items as requested for a few months now, but today she said blue ("boo"), green ("geen"), and identified yellow without prompting.

the interior cover of most children's books are made of a solid color and we always identify it before reading each book. and as you can imagine with madelyn's love of books, we have a lot of opportunities to review colors. today, when we had a blue book madelyn responded "boo" while pointing at the book. as will everything 'new', i was really excited.

when we went to play with her blocks later i would hold up a blue block and ask her what color it was - "boo". then when i held up a green block and asked her the color she responded "geen".

the yellow came during curious george. she was watching while drinking her after nap milk and in the intro she calls out all the items she has a word/noise for (i.e. "duck", "ball", "ah-ah" (monkey)). the intro ends with george going through a yellow circle which i identify. today when i said yellow circle, she looked around and pointed at the yellow section of the blanket we were snuggling under. that is how she often expresses her comprehension of her cartoons. she will point to something on the t.v. and then find it, or something like it, in the room with us.

another new word for the day "burger", as in hamburger/cheeseburger. she has never eaten one herself (other than a veggieburger patty), but has some play food where she can build a cheeseburger that has become a recent favorite. love.