Let's talk...

The Bear has been talking up a storm.

It's so funny listening to him sometimes. There are moments when he's just practicing making noise versus trying to say something.

"Ah-put-ah-put-ah-put-ah-put..."

The Hubs and I look at each other & smile when he's doing this. We don't make a sound. We don't want to discourage his experimentation. We don't want to interrupt the discovery of his own voice. It's hard not to giggle though when he's walking around making that sound.

Here are the latest additions to his growing vocabulary:

"Jump" = jump --> as in jump OFF the bed

"FI" = fly

"Caw" = car

"Ew-fant" = elephant

"Tie-GER" = tiger --> he puts the emphasis on the second syllable

"Maw-KEY" = monkey --> he makes a chimpanzee sound right after

"Daw-FIN" = dolphin

"Way-ew" = whale

"Daw" = draw --> when he wants to use crayons

"Oh-MEA" = oatmeal --> requesting his favorite breakfast...he'll go right to the pantry & point to the oatmeal

"Dir-TEE" = dirty --> When he comes into the house after playing outside

"Mess" = mess --> He's acknowledging that he's got food all over him as we're carrying him over to the sink to get washed up AND when he comes inside from playing AND when we're changing a poopy diaper

"Aw keen" = All clean --> He says this after we've washed him up

"Pit-EE" = pretty

"Wa-ER" = water

"Faw DOOW-n" = I fell down
"Hur" = hurt --> This is said after he's fallen down or bumped himself

"Hur me" = hurt me --> He says this when he thinks we've hurt him or when we're holding him and he wants to get away

"Wet go" = let go --> This usually follows the phrase above

"Stow-ER" = stroller --> He says this when we're outside and he wants us to go for a walk and put him in the stroller

"Tri" = tricycle

"Baw DER" = Bob the Builder

"Buzz" = Buzz Lightyear

"Bouy" = Woody (from Toy Story)

Then there's the counting! He knows the words from one to ten. But he doesn't necessarily put them in the correct order. He'll skip some. He'll repeat the words over and over to himself as he's playing. Oh yeah! And the alphabet. He'll say the letters but not all in order. He does know W-X-Y-Z and A-B-C-D-E-F. He knows the letters "O" and "S" and "G" and "M" individually.

What's nice is that he's learning to string words together. Actual SENTENCES! He'll string up to three words together. It's truly amazing to hear him speak. And he gets this look of satisfaction when we understand him. What I find funny is that the Princess is sometimes his 'translator' when we don't quite understand him.

Now do your older kids translate for your younger ones?