December 10th, 2009 | By Kyoko
I haven’t metioned immi’s linguistic developement much partly because there’s really no photo that would go with it, and other part because it’s been much the same for a long time. Shes been saying a whole lot of words, mostly just important ones — ice cream, pickles, tea, popcorn, rice, cookie, balloon — but not sentences or phrases. She also have made up words that she uses consistantly that sounds nothing like the actual word like “ishkie” for music, “kudrukudru” for salt (she wants to put salt on everything, we just pretend sprinkle!) “chukumaichukudai” for want. How she came up with those I have no idea! There’s been some evindences that suggest she can either read numbers or recognize the shapes of them and anyhow be able to tell them apart.
One interesting thing is that she immitates sounds at least as much as (probably more, actually) saying words (sound of spray bottle, sound effects in movies etc.). When she sings (which she is getting better at!), sometimes she sing vocal part, but a lot of the time she immitates drum or synth sound. She just might be a beatboxer:)
I’ve never heard immi mention anyone by name…until just a few days ago. The very first and luckiest person who got called by name by immi is Ashland! Immi had been calling him “baby”. Ashland is still too little to appreciate how special this is (though he seems to really like his sister a whole lot) but see, even Oskar is just a “meow” just like billion other cats in the world who are also a “meow”.
