big boy...

Beach Baby

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catching up on summer reading

frankenstein

thats what we call him sometimes... as he is working on vocalizing... he grunts or SCREAMS when he sees something he likes (car, train, bus, dog, another car, helicopter, juice, tree, the sky, a truck, birds...)

but he has some "words":
"a-baaah!" (which can be a plane or a bus or a boat - depending on what he sees)
"aarrrgh" (which is car and has a driving/steering wheel sign that goes along with it - but is sometimes also called a "bvroom, vroom")
he said "bubbles" very clearly for a week or so, but it has now turned into abuh-buh-buh-buh-bubbles!...
he makes a clicky kinda gulp sound for truck and a two syllable one for helicopter (I think he is trying to master the K or hard C sound...)
and he makes a kinda double gulping noise for train aka "choo choo"
he says "a-ma" for grandma (my mom), and "nana" for nana, and sometimes even "blah" for abuela! and he manages to surprise us with "TiTi" every now and then...
and now he says "up-ah" when he wants you to pick him up! (or sometimes to tell you there is a plane in the sky - maybe he is saying "look up" ...?)

and as of this week he is saying "A-pple" pretty distinctly!

and he is working on animal sounds:
what does the cow say? "mmmmm"
what does the kitty say? "mmmmm"
what does the horse say? "mmmmm"
what does the sheep say? "a-baaah"
what does the pig say? (he snorts in response)
what does the dog say? (he pants)

he still uses some modified signs:
MILK! brush teeth, finished, more, eat, car, juice, water (to drink or when at the ocean), apple, banana, chicken/fish (which can be food or fish in a tank or Goldfish crackers), cheerio/cereal, duck, rooster...
and he has made up - or has independently learned his own signs (thanks to the wiggles): yummy, wiggles (music), guitar...