Ds2 is now 21 months old and his vocabulary is restricted to "Woweeeeeee!" (when something good happens) and "Oh noooooooooooo!" (if something gets dropped or broken - fairly frequent events in our house. )If he wants anything in particular he expects us to know what he wants. If we can't guess then he screams until we get it right.
So yesterday I was unwrapping an Asda pizza and I suddenly remembered MrsF saying how she sometimes keeps the cardboard circles in case they come in handy later. I think she'd even used one to make a visual timetable. So there I was wondering what I could use the cardboard circle for when ds2 came trotting in and took it away with him (he loves circles). A few minutes later dh came up with the idea of drawing two spirals on one side of the card and spinning it round on an old pencil. Ds2 was absolutely fascinated with it and by the end of the evening my arms were aching from spinning it for him over and over.
This morning when ds2 got up, he picked up the cardboard circle, handed it to ds1 and said "Round-round!" When ds1 didn't understand ds2 brought the circle to me and again said "Round!" So I spun it round for him again and ds2 jumped up and down and clapped his hands with joy.
So, thanks to MrsF and her plans for pizza boxes etc ds2 actually tried to communicate with us for the first time ever. Yippeeeee!