Now, take a look at what he was yabbering about during the walk. I was trying to record what he said, while watching out for him & while deciphering what he's saying & while trying to carry on the conversation with him. Tricky. It meant I missed out taking notes on a lot of what he said.
His articulation is still unclear, sometimes missing out the first phenome in the word, sometimes not pursing his lips to pronounce '0', or not opening his mouth enough to emphasise the vowels in the word. But he tries to make himself understood by repeating himself, or using other words to elaborate, or use hand gestures/body language. So, the italics below is after 'translation'!
Got down from car. Looked around, then said: "a lot leaves". The heavy downpour caused the treees to shed a lot of their leaves. The untranslated version would sound like this: "a ohhht eve-s". I'm targetting his pronounciation of "l" and "c/k" and stretching out his vowels and sounds needing pursed lips. For the pursed lips, I caught a few opportunities when he was keenly observing fishes in a tank, to point out the look of the fishes lips/mouth! So now when I need to remind him, I say, "hey! where's your "fish lips"?".
Crossed the road to where the Perodua & Unser are usually parked. He pointed out: "wet...rain". He noticed that the cars were wet because of the rain. This was something I pointed out to him in the past.
After playing at the undulating park, I asked if he wants to walk to the top (where we can see the twin towers & KL Tower, but I didnt' mention twin towers). In response, he says: "Up there, twin tower" and a few seconds later says "pretty flowers". He remembered that the day before, he had plucked off a lot of the small lightly coloured purple flowers. (btw, all that plucking was good gross motor & fine motor exercise).
Then he says one of the longest phrases he has ever said: "ghost follow me from there to there...forest...got ghost. I'm scared" He doesn't like forests like FRIM. Too spooky for him. Even the outer walking path, which leads to the suspension bridge, at the Taman Lembah Kiara is scarry for him.
Spotted a dead millipede in the grass. He says "burnt". In the past I suggested that the frequent sightings of dead millipedes were because it was too hot (very hot weather back then). Then he intentionally steps on it. He then utters: "flat like a pancake...(& laughs)". That's his current favourite phrase!
The rain made many puddles of water in the uneven grassy/rocky terrain. "Puddles" he says, "there and there...and there and there....medium and small...and big and medium". He was commenting on the many puddles & their sizes.
He saw 2 long stalks of love grass leaning across each other making a cross. "x" he says. These days, he's very much into alphabets...to the extent he sees it in nature too! : D Or is he being creative?
Looking at the cordoned off road (no vehicles cos it's vacant land for houses yet to be built), he says "fire engine". I didnt understand that comment cos there are absolutely no vehicles. Then he says "got car, zoom from there, go there, zoom". Uhmm...I guess it's his active imagination? Or was it the din of the vehicles from the highway behind the forest?
He saw the "For Sale" sign lying on the ground and said "Oh-oh. Fall down...too heavy"
He spotted a tree that had absolutely no leaves. "Botak tree!" he laughs! Oh dear, I've not been successful in teaching him alternative, more polite ways to address baldness. In terms of trees, I showed him photo of trees in winter, in his encyclopedia & explained about shedding leaves during autumn etc.
"Two trucks there and there.... two trucks accident"....his imagination again.
It was getting dark. The group of crows gathered at the high tension wires had finally dispersed. "No birds", he noticed.
Walking back to the car, he purposely bumped into me from the back, saying "accident on back of mama". Funny boy, my son : )
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