I was sitting with Emmett in the living room the other day, listening to Ava cry about something or other out in the kitchen, when I looked into this face and said, “Emmett, why don’t you go give Ava a hug?”
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\nHe immediately squirmed from my lap and, with his dad right at this heels, ran into the kitchen and wrapped his arms around his sobbing sis. I cannot put into words how cute it was. Then, this morning, Emmett was with me in our bedroom as I dressed for work. There were some dirty clothes on the floor near Emmett, and I asked the boy if he’d put them in the dirty clothes hamper for me. Sure enough, he picked them right up and dumped them where they belong.<\/p>\n
These scenarios were yet another reminder of the fact that Emmett’s ability to understand language surpasses his ability to use it. Though he’s not letting that stop him from talking a lot<\/em>. The boy and I frequently have long conversations about…something that, I’m guessing, Emmett finds very engaging and\/or important. He’ll point at things in the room and gesture wildly towards them as I nod and smile and say, “Is that right, Emmett?”<\/p>\n Yesterday I sat with Emmett and Ava while she played some old home videos over the TV. Emmett was enthralled with the moving images of his big sis as a little(r) girl about his age and size. She crisscrossed the screen with a basket in her hand and a bonnet on her head, collecting Easter eggs from the yard around our old house. She didn’t speak much, save for a pivotal scene in which she commanded “Me” (Gramary) to sit next to her on a bench for a photo op. I was actually a little surprised when I turned to smile at Ava and saw the beautiful, six-year-old version of our little egg gatherer smiling back at me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was sitting with Emmett in the living room the other day, listening to Ava cry about something or other out in the kitchen, when I looked into this face and said, “Emmett, why don’t you go give Ava a hug?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,69,65,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ava","category-baby","category-big-sis","category-emmett"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-J0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2791,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions\/2791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}