Use Your Words

It's quite hard to keep things balanced around here with some things with the age difference between Jack and Gavin. Part of it is Gavin does not miss a beat. He notices that Jack gets praise for learning new words, speaking gibberish but we understand what he's trying to say, pointing, etc. 

One of our fave books is the big book of animals and big book of letters, numbers, colors, and more. Jack has really caught on to things lately. His favorite phrase, by far, is, "What's that?" But not said so well :) When he is around that book, it is constant pointing and a yell-fest of, "What's that? What's that? What's that?" and responding with an attempt at a word or just straight up gibber. Gavin loves the book, too (as does James still- they are awesome books) and will come up and try to baby talk us like Jack. "Blasdhf?" I know he's trying to get the same attention and praise Jack is getting, but gol... this kid has a ridiculous vocabulary and grammar comprehension. He can talk. We'll ask the question back to him and he'll generally respond. But sometimes we'll say, "Gavin, can you please use your words?" His response, "No, I do not want to use my words." Nicely played. I'm trying now to praise how awesome he speaks and tell him he needs to help Jack-Jack talk. He loves that- breakfast time is a lot of "Jack, say Mama. Jack, say Gavin. Say Gavin! Jack, say dada..." These brothers sure love to help one another.