My little boy is 4 weeks old now and has started 'chatting' to me. It is so cute. He also gives me a huge grin when I talk back to him and it isnt wind!! :)

Just thought I would share!! :love:

lol. I spoke to my son from day he was born & he cooed right back. It's a really good thing to do - so said the nurses in hospital. I loved it when he use to do it all the time. You can't help smiling at them :-)

I've had conversations with Ed all his life too, we still have great ones!!

He's now 3.5 months and we've just had a 'blowing raspberry' conversation... he won!!!

Yesterday he spent half an hour talking to one of his teddies :hihi: goodness knows what he was telling him!!!

baby harrison is doin this too ,i think its so cute.
I love it in a morning when we wake up ,he grins to himself for about an hour arhhh bless his little cotton socks,love him to bits :love::love::love:

This sounds so cute, can't wait for Annabel to do this.

When Noah was first born it was as if he wasn't able to cry and whenever he wanted anything it sounded like he was saying " I say I say I say" Like Fred Elliot off Corabungo :D

Even now when he cries for his dummy when I put it in he makes this funny noise as if to say cheers mommy :) It makes me melt every time :love:

Scarlett has been doing this for a while now and we hold perfectly normal conversations with her "telling me stories" and me responding to them. I love it when she babbles makes me all gooey inside lol.

I talk to her constantly (sometimes not meaning to when she's asleep and I'm pushing the pram lol) Two old women on the bus yesterday were talking about me, she said "you'd think she'd realise that that baby doesn't understand a word she's saying, doesn't she know she looks like a right wally" All I can say to this is the constant chatter i did with dd1 - she's now 10, made her a very very early talker and she could say proper words and lines of nursery rimes for 10months. At 10 yrs she's got a wonderful vocabulary and often amazes me with some of the words she knows.

So the point is babble to them, they might not understand just yet but they soon will.

Annie, what daft old ladies!!! Take no notice!

I tell Ed whatever I'm doing whenever he's awake really, we have a daily running commentary, from me washing bottles to changing nappies, putting washing out, he's there with me and i'm talking about what i'm doing the whole time. When we're out for walks I talk about the trees and the birds and the cars etc. Babies understand the concept of conversation; they babble, wait for a reply then babble back again, its great and its the best start they can get :)

i agree, thats how conversation skills are learned. I love talking to her and I'm sure she likes it too as she gets annoyed if I've not said anything in a while. She really is a little honey pie and I enjoy talking to her and enjoy it even more when she talks back.

Before you know it all the wee ones will be at Jellytots chatting to each other! lol

Scarlett has been doing this for a while now and we hold perfectly normal conversations with her "telling me stories" and me responding to them. I love it when she babbles makes me all gooey inside lol.

I talk to her constantly (sometimes not meaning to when she's asleep and I'm pushing the pram lol) Two old women on the bus yesterday were talking about me, she said "you'd think she'd realise that that baby doesn't understand a word she's saying, doesn't she know she looks like a right wally" All I can say to this is the constant chatter i did with dd1 - she's now 10, made her a very very early talker and she could say proper words and lines of nursery rimes for 10months. At 10 yrs she's got a wonderful vocabulary and often amazes me with some of the words she knows.

So the point is babble to them, they might not understand just yet but they soon will.

Blummin oldies :rolleyes:

I was talking to Noah on the bus saying how much of a lovely day it was last week and an old lady said to me "are you expecting him to turn around and answer you".
Why are they sooo interfering one woman told me to put Noah back in his pram, he was screaming his lungs out and wouldn't have his dummy. I felt like punching her but just scowled and told her to mind her business!! She called him a naughty boy and that made my blood boil, I was considering tripping her up as she got off the bus but thought better of it :D

Sorry rant over :blush:

Rachel talks to us as well, it is so lovely.

It really annoys me though when other people feel they have the right to slate parents in public. We all do what we think is best for our children and only we are responsible for how they grow up.

I have conversations with our lad when he's in his pram - it's funny because it must sound like there's some nutter about if people can't see him ;) I make up silly songs and make animal noises for him and all sorts without even thinking :D

He's always had some funny 'words' - he goes yan yan yan when he's happy with the dummy in and gaya gaya gaya when he's frustrated. When he's happy he blows raspberries, and now he's 7 months old he spends half the day going "mamamamama" :D

just wait while its no no no

It's a good job I don't use public transport cos I'd be hounding all the golden oldies off to walk if they had ever told me not to talk to my girls.
Having said that.....I'm not too tolerant of guff. Like the old women in M'hell who often encountered who would admire the girls in all their pink finery and say 'ooooh aren't you lucky a girl and a boy' at which point I'd loudly say 'I'm soo lucky to have 2 girls' then I'd start to walk away whilst telling the girls to put me in a nursing home if I ever became that ignorant.
I also hated the ones who would camp in front of me, not allowing me the choice to move and interrogate me on if I breastfed, how I had them etc etc. Really aggravating stuff.
I tried to be polite but often failed and ran over a substantial number of feet in a desperate bid to spend less than 3 hours per shop.

If you can talk to your kids then please please do so, it is my constant battle to get the twins to catch up because their language development is hindered by having a twin at the same stage. I constantly blather at them when I'm alone with them and as a result they now the names of all the landmarks en route to Jellys and back :D our cats names, all toys, the garden and the essential words around the house.
It's never enough, I hate the idea they are behind and if I could have that much time to give them, undivided, then I would. We have to make do with taking them out seperately. Hence Twingle 1 has an interesting vocabulary in DIY stores where we have spent a lot of time insce moving house :D

. Hence Twingle 1 has an interesting vocabulary in DIY stores where we have spent a lot of time insce moving house :D

Really laughed at this, she'll be a DIY expert for 5, not a bad thing. You can loan her out have her earn her keep lol. I need some help in that department!

just wait while its no no no

then it'll be can I have this and can I have that lol:)

Really laughed at this, she'll be a DIY expert for 5, not a bad thing. You can loan her out have her earn her keep lol. I need some help in that department!
LOL, it was a little dodgy when she was going around shouting 'hiya door, mama doors, mama... MAMA doors!', 'mama scoo's, scooo's MAMA SCOOOO's'.

Scoo are screws, baynt is paint, doors are tragically obvious and loud, amma is hammer, scanner for spanner, tyoos for tiles and a million and one other DIY words.
Then of course there's the words they already know like lights, fan, all the colours of paint :rolleyes: 'mbella' in the garden section, showers, baths, sinks, rugs and a bazillion more.
It's endless!