3V0413.01 Change of fashion in Peggy’s favored sounds; cups, closing(3/11/79)
About three weeks ago “Doit” [do-it?] replaced “ha zat” (have that) and
“zat …zat…zat” as the most frequently used phrase in Peggy’s speech.
For a while the older phrases disappeared completely, then returned….
Ten days or so ago, Peggy went to take a nap about 5 pm, and slept
through until 2:30 am. Naturally she was wide awake and fresh, so I
took her down stairs and fed her a container of yogurt. Part way
through, she refused the spoon, pointing to the lid and saying “that,
that, that.” When I gave her the lid she began playing with it and
resumed eating the yogurt. (She does this frequently, sometimes not
eating at all until she obtains the lid.) She then started replacing the lid
on the container, at first in between my dipping out a spoonful, then
while the spoon was still inside. When the container was empty, she
played with it also, putting the lid on and lifting the container up with
both hands. At one point she brought it to her mouth like a cup. Tiring
of this, she bobbed her head forward to peer up at me, and laughed
delightedly when I imitated her. She repeated the action many times to
provoke my response.
At about the same time, she picked up her cup to drink. By chance the
drinking spout was on the upper edge. Previously I have always seen
her try to drink from the spout anyway, but this time she rotated the
cup by bringing her left hand over to the right and the right over to
the left, and drank in that contorted position. She also delights in
pouring some milk out onto the tray of the high chair, so she can
smack the puddle with her hand. Gretchen.