It is a special moment when your child first says her name. I still remember the midwife in the hospital telling me to call her by her name often so she would understand that it meant her. She was less than a day old then. And now she’s 18 months and two weeks, and she […]

C’est une des petites histoires rigolo qui arrivent avec des jeunes enfants. Pas la nôtre, elle ne sait encore ni parler ni écrire, mais le fils de nos amis, 3½ ans. Il vient de rentrer en maternelle et sait déjà écrire quelques lettres. Quand récemment, maman et papa lui ont dit d’écrire une lettre au […]

This is one of the funny things that happen with young children. Not mine, since she’s neither reading nor writing yet, but the 3½-year-old son of our friends. He started pre-school this autumn and already scribbles some letters. So when mommy and daddy recently said he should write a letter to Santa, he proudly wrote […]

Last night, I regretted having neglected the teaching of baby signs, when my little girl cried and cried and wouldn’t stop. Then her daddy had a great idea: He put her down and let her walk off. Where she went? Straight into the living room and to her high chair. The message was clear: “I’m […]

Yesterday my little girl (16 months and counting) showed her caregiver just how good her comprehension is already: Both she and the other little girl (J, 12 months) at the caregiver’s were eating a piece of bread. That is, my girl had already finished hers and was eyeing that of little J. More than eyeing […]

We never tire of research, it seems. The “BabyLab – LBB” of the Laboratoire Psychologique de la Perception at Paris V – Descartes University still has us in the files (from this participation at 10 months), and this time they were looking for 16-months-old babies. So we went there for a study on the use […]

…CHEESE! We haven’t been any more consequential about signing since my previous post on the subject, but then one or two weeks ago I decided spontaneously to introduce a new sign from Baby Signs®: Since we’ve made a habit of her getting a little cheese between the main course and the dessert at night, and […]

Two days in a row I managed to capture my little girl talking to herself, in what I’m told experts call “jargon”. Please listen to these two soundbites: “bap” talk And watch her read:  

After two weeks of two-on-one (that is, Mommy and Daddy with Baby 24/7 or pretty much so), our baby girl has returned home with many new impressions (such as 17°C North Sea water is very nice, fine dry sand on the beach above however is not), but with very little new expressions. If pressed, I’d […]

It’s been a while, and I don’t even have a “mama” or “papa” recording to show for it. I do have, however, two samples of my baby in a very good and a very bad mood. Plus more babbling. Listen here: babble more babble unhappy baby laughing baby (she’s getting tickled and enjoying every moment […]