The girls all sleep in the same room. Typically, Katie is the first to wake up. This morning Zoe was the first one up. Of course she had to take the opportunity to make sure everyone else was up as well. She started yelling “Katie! Katie! Katie!” over and over. Katie woke up and yelled back “No! No! No!, etc.” But Zoe continued “Katie!, etc.” Katie replied “No, sleeping!” Izzy of course got into the mix. It became quite the joke this morning. The girls are very funny when they wake up.
The silliest?conversation/argument is the “yes/no”. It usually occurs in the car. One will start yelling “No” someone will answer with a “yes”. It gets rather heated and usually ends up in tears. What they are arguing about - I have no idea - but apparently it’s pretty serious for them.
There has been numerous articles written about multiples having their own language. The girls did have these words they used between each other. We called it the Goya language (after the beans). It was just a series of very guttural words. Nothing every really came out of it. It probably completely stopped over 6 months ago.
Their language development is on track. At about 16 months, I did have them evaluated for speech to to make sure we were on track. The girls did wonderfully. But, they did catch a problem for Katie. While she did have a pretty large vocabulary for her age, her annunciation was way off. They thought that maybe her hearing was being effected and suggested a hearing test. We had her tested and she failed twice (Katie had also failed her initial newborn hearing test only to have passed it right before leaving the hospital - too much fluid in her ears). Katie had a number of ear infections. We were told that this might happen due to the excess fluid at birth. They recommended tubes - so that’s what we did. Katie passed her hearing test and all is well.