TLE is quite the chatterbox these days! It seems that she’s making up for whatever lost time she had while she was speech delayed by talking up a storm. From the moment she wakes up in the morning to the moment she conks out at night, she’s just one big, chattering ball of energy, consuming absolutely everything in her path.
Her sentences are becoming ever more complex and she’s able to really get her point across. I love listening to her as she narrates little stories while playing with her toys. So cute!!
A downside with her talking more is that we’re getting a lot of back talk these days. There’s a lot of “I don’t want to” and boy, she does NOT hesitate to lay on the guilt trip when I put her in time out for being sassy. After time out, I always make it a point to give her a hug and a kiss, and we talk about why she got a time out.
“Mommy,” she pleaded with me this afternoon, hanging her head and looking up at me through that impossibly long fringe of eyelash. (This child will NEVER need mascara as an adult. I am so jealous.) “I don’t like it when you put me in time out. It makes me so sad.”
Ouch. Heartstrings. Pulling. I’m trying to find a non-punitive discipline solution that doesn’t involve time outs but redirection just does. not. work. with her. *sigh* 
So much of trying to wrangle TLE is to channel her boundless energy and enthusiasm into positives but sometimes, it feels like trying to control a hurricane.
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I hope you’re getting video of all those amazing developments so you can look back on them when her language is even more improved! I really underuse video.