Loquacity can be a good thing

when we're talking about it in relation to Abraham. We've been worried about lil' Abe and his speech. For the past 2 years he just hasn't seemed to want to put forth the effort to say what is in his head and to pronounce things correctly. And I think he's had a hard time processing sentences and words. But in the past few weeks, the boy has become quite loquacious. He makes efforts to speak slowly enough to prounce syllables and he practices his 's', 'th', and 'r'. His speech teacher thinks he has just hit a development stage, but I also think preschool and his speech lessons have helped immensely.

I hear about 30 times a days from Abe, "Excuse me mom." ... "Yes Abe?" and most of the time he is just trying to think of something to say because he just 'wants a word in edgewise' (Anne of Green Gables quote of course). The past 2 days his response has been, "Last year you go to Lowe's." (he's working on yesterday, last year, last night, today, tomorrow, etc).

Abe's loquacity has been an adjustment for Hannah. She is used to having full reign of kid conversation with the parents and now she has to take turns with her brother which sometimes produces 2 frustrated kiddos. But overall, we're excited that Abe has decided that verbal communication is a good thing.