ABCs, counting, thinking about things that aren’t present, sentence structure
Morgan can sing along to the ABCs song and will insert the next letter when you stall somewhere. She doesn’t sing it by herself from start to finish. But she will ask you for help singing it when she wants to sing….”Mommy help, ABCs” is a common request. (So is “Mommy help, Happy Birthday Stevie,” “Mommy help, Happy Birthday Stevie’s Mommy” (I have no idea where that come from), and “Mommy help, Happy Birthday Morgan”)
Morgan can count to 11 quickly and easily by herself. (And she is counting things that she is pointing to, not just reciting numbers). Usually after 11 she resets to 8.
She thinks about the stories we read her even when we aren’t reading (and haven’t been reading them in awhile). Her favorite story these days is Curious George Takes a Train (the first story in the Treasury of Curious George book John gave her). Occasionally she’ll break out with a ‘get down George!’ (George gets into trouble for messing with the departure board at a train station and the trainmaster yells at him. It is easy for a monkey to get into trouble. Also easy for a monkey to get out of trouble. And by the end of the story George is a hero). She’ll also say ‘easy trouble monkey’ and ‘George hero!’
She has moved on to 6 word sentences. And she narrates the drive home. “People walking. I hear noise. Beep beep! Help Mommy, ABCs!”