WHAT ARE WE SAYING?

We went to a picnic for Walmart Information Systems Division employees (Saul's Job) on Friday and Alex said a couple of sentences that were (again) exciting to me.


We had taken our time in leaving for it, because it was a long day for me.  I was called at 11:00 to show the house between 12:15 and 1:00 after no visits for 5 weeks and had 1 hour to clean the house, polish the counters, and put out the 'showcase' elements.  So running wildly non-stop, I cleaned the bathrooms, straitened the kids rooms, remade their beds, filed papers, and prepped the house; luckily I mopped the day before.  In my sweat and glory I loaded Carlos and the baby along with a single basket of a few unpaired socks in the car at 12:00.  We left the house, it was shown, and we returned with little time before Alex and Diego got out of school. After picking them up, Carlos spilled a half gallon of milk I got to clean up and an hour later Levi pulled over a couple bowls of cereal that the kids left on the table.  After mopping the kitchen two times and bathing a sticky kid, I was in need of a break.  Alex thought we were never going to leave.  So when we finally left he said 'I knew we were going to go'.  'Knew' is past tense and abstract, but he used it correctly! 


When we got to the picnic, there were several sirens that would go off for different games there.  He turned to me and asked me 'is there a police man around here'.  'Around' another abstract term, but he used it correctly too!


Hearing Impaired children do not use abstract terms. He never used these kind of terms in his speech before he got his hearing aids. He's coming along!!