Saturday, April 3, 2010

Jack's Dictionary

Jack seems to be acquiring new words all the time. He loves to walk, run and talk a lot! It's amazing what he understands. Yesterday we were heading to the park and Daddy was going to stay behind to make dinner. I asked Jack if he wanted to go bye-bye. He said, "bah-bah" and then followed me, like a little duckling to the door. I told him to first go and give Daddy a kiss goodbye and he turned around, went up to Paul and planted one on him.

Anyway, it is so cool to see him now start to vocalize some of the things he understands.

Words he knows without prompting: Mommy, Daddy, Poppy, Nonny, banana, book, ball, no, car, toes (he walks up touches our feet and says "DOHs"), up, hot, hat, bubbles, baby, bye-bye, nose, doggie, apple, thank you, wow

Today, he was flipping through a book on numbers. Number 7 has bananas and he opened it and said, "NANA!" This is not new. However, he then flipped to the next picture with 8 dogs on it and said "Dod" (dog). Then he flipped to the 9 ducks and said "dah". I don't know if it meant duck but it was cool anyway. Then he flipped to 10 eggs. I said egg and he repeated it. Then he shut the book and did it all by himself: "Nana! Dod!, Duh, Egg". I couldn't believe it so I kept making him do it. Then he thought that everything was "egg" because I made such a big deal about it. So I am not sure I can count that as a 100% word for him. But he is doing a lot of repeating in general. Yesterday, I told him that the diaper pail was yucky. "UCK!" he replied. He's like this little toy. My favorite toy ever!

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