I overheard Isabelle calling out familiar words from her play room as I cleaned up our breakfast dishes. I turned off the water to take a better listen. As I got closer, I saw her dropping some of the cards her music therapist and former speech therapist made for her into her favorite beach pail. As she picked up each card, she said the word aloud. Once she said it, she dropped it in the bucket. Once I stopped kvelling about her making up her own speech game, I grabbed my iPhone and took a stealth video of her from the kitchen. (NOTE: She wasn’t dressed for the day yet. She was wearing her woolies, which go under her clothes!)
Yes! You heard her say “Starbucks Lady” and “duckie.” She also saw the song cards for “Pat a Cake” and “This Little Piggy.” which she recited aloud.
BUT… you want to know what was even more precious (and equally appreciated by this mom)? She cleaned up all of the cards and put them away in her folder when she was done. That NEVER happens! Not sure how I got so lucky today!
Raising Literate Humans 
This is a great moment to have captured – in words and video. “Starbucks lady!” Go, Isabelle!
This is precious, it makes me smile 🙂
It looks like she’s saying the words to her stuffed animal sitting in front of her. I’m so glad you captured this moment! It’s precious. Thank you for sharing! I have a big smile on my face. 🙂
You had to love the fact that she craves learning enough to do it on her own and cleaning up after is the icing on the mom hood cake.
Bernadette
So glad you were able to witness and capture the moment. It will be fun to share this when she is older. What a bonus, clean up!
So sweet. I love that you were able to get a video as well. And congratulation on your 200th post!
I love that she entertained herself with a game of learning and words! What a joy to see and hear her voice!
What a wonderful moment. She’s so in her own world. So much she is learning. Lucky mom and lucky Isabelle.
Such a blessing when things work! And when our children make the method their own.
That’s impressive! She is owning her learning. And cleaning up, too- wow!
Way to go Isabelle!
I love when they get in that ‘independent play’ zone. She is too sweet. Doesn’t she have the best hair possible??? I love that she is imitating the exact game she has played over and over. xo
Oh Stacey-so cute, and smart! Practice helps doesn’t it, and obviously she loves the doing too! Congrats on the 200th too!
Captured moments are so precious…not doing it to impress or please you…just for the joy of it! Awwwwesome!
This was wonderful to read and watch.
Don’t you love those moments? Way to go Isabelle!!
Ok, I want to know the story behind “Starbucks Lady”! 🙂 How fun that she made up her own game! What joy!
Oh, that is a good one! I was suffering from a white mocha addiction during the last school year. I’d go through the drive thru Starbucks a few times a week. Isabelle would say “ba-ba” for Starbucks. Once we started using the Kaufman Speech to Language Protocol, I decided to shape the word into “bar-buh,” then “tar-buh.” Now we’re up to “Sar-buk!”
I now have a Keurig Vue since my habit was getting pricey. That being said, whenever she sees a Starbucks, she gets really excited. She wants to go there. If she sees the Siren on any signage, on a Starbucks location, or even on a package of coffee in the grocery store, she gets super excited and says, “Sar-buk Lady!”
Maybe I’ll do one of my March slices from a Starbucks location. She LOVES going there for steel-cut oatmeal (and I still love their coffee), so it’ll be a win-win-win situation!
I can only imagine the story behind the Starbucks lady……
That is SO cute! I, like Jennifer, want to know what the Starbucks Lady story is. 😉
How fun! And you got it on video as a keeper, too. What a smart girl (both of you).
So sweet! And congratulations on your 200th post! I’m hoping to get to 150 by my blog’s 2nd birthday. Not sure I’ll make it at this rate.
What a great game! How nice to have a phone to capture all of these great little moments. I’m thinking of all of those that slipped right through our fingers before all of this quick technology. Congrats on your 200th post!!!!!
SO cute!
Congrats on your 200th post. I love these little moments. How wonderful to be able to record it.