Recent Coversations (and other stuff)

Two weeks ago:

Me: Jack, see this (picture of my ultrasound)? It's a baby?
Jack: Bee-bee.
Me: Yes. The baby is right here (pointing to my stomach).
Jack: (looking confused because he knows that area as "tummy")
Me: Do you want to have a baby sister?
Jack: No.
Me: Do you want a baby brother?
Jack: No.

Jack's going to be sorely disappointed in December.


This morning:

Me: Jack, are you hungry?
Jack: Yeshhh.
Me: Do you want an egg?
Jack: No. Cheeos. (Cheerios)
Me: You want Cheerios?
Jack: No.
Me: Do you want Crunchies (Cinnamon Chex).
Jack: (eyes lighting up recalling his first Cinnamon Chex the day before) Cwunchieeeess! YESHH!

We eat our breakfast together.

Me: Hey Jack, do you want a banana?
Jack: No. Greeeeeeps! (grapes)

We're getting this whole communication thing down pretty well and he is really verbal.

He has now started adding his name (he can't say the J so it comes out as "Gack") to some of his words: "No, Gack!", "Dak-uh, Gack" (thank you, Jack), "Upp-ee, Gack!", "Go, Gack!", and "Yay, Gack!" (while clapping for himself).

He is also doing better on his numbers (he says all but "seven") and now likes to clump four and five and nine and ten together. It sounds something like this: "Wahn. too, free. fo-five. seeks. ate (in place of 7), ate, nah-ten" In Spanish he does all but tres and siete but has lately decided he doesn't want to say dos. The Spanish version sounds like this: "Uno, wako (cuatro), wako, wako, inco, sesss, oto, oto, deez" And sometimes, he starts counting in English in the middle of his Spanish.

He does the same with the alphabet--saying letters in clumps. Once you say "N", he immediately says, "O-Poppy!"

He is also very into learning his shapes. We have shape cards and he loves going through them. He also loves throwing them on the ground and watching them scatter everywhere. He does not love picking them up after that. He knows and says (with varying degrees of accuracy): triangle, heart, star, circle, oval, and my favorite, octagon ("ak-gon")

For animals, he knows cow, horse, dog, cat, sheep, pig, duck. He is hit or miss with monkey, lion, and zebra. He also knows the sounds that each makes (with the exception of the lion and the zebra--wait, does the zebra make a horse sound? Then he knows that sound too!) He also knows that a truck says "honk".

Speaking of trucks, Jack LOVES cars, trucks, trains and airplanes. He has been especially into airplanes, pointing up everytime he sees one and excitedly yelling, "Ahh-pane"! We have decided to make his big boy room transportation themed. We're sure he'll love it. We're not sure how much sleep he'll get constantly naming everything in his room!

He is very much like a parrot these days too, repeating many things we say. He has always been good at repeating things that we ask him to but lately he has just started saying certain words in sentences we say.

He still loves reading his books and is enjoying reading them along with me. I leave off the last word in a lot of sentences in his books and he fills them in for me. He is able to point to things I say and say things I point to. He's really an amazing boy and so smart. I know I am biased but he really does love to learn and try new things. He's an absolute delight and makes us laugh all the time.