New Words

Just a short post to remind myself what new words Everett has:

outside, more (and really means it!), bath, sit, egg, cookie, cracker, down, letters I and Y, and likes to say hoo-wah (maybe we have a marine on our hands??).

Everett also will make sounds for a lion (roaring is his favorite), woof-woof for a dog, and meow for a cat.

Everett's a Little Sponge

I know I am long overdue on uploading pictures. There are some videos in the post that will hopefully tide everyone over.

It looks like Everett's first word was banana. At the end of August, he added ball, bubble and shoe. Ball is used very liberally - in addition to an actual ball, he uses the word when he sees anything round, particularly fruit (especially peaches and nectarines - his favorite). Since then, he's added a few more words that he'll use meaningfully:

banana (nanana), ball, bubble, shoes, socks, cheese, baby, car, butterfly (buhfwhy :), chair, dada (for both Eric and me), mama (when reminded that I'm not dada), bye-bye, tree, uh-oh, apple, duck, night-night, juice, slide, wow, tree, up

Here's a video with most of his words:


Everett has also started repeating back words without knowing what he's saying: two, happy, thank you (tay choo), truck.

He can also recognize a couple letters: A, B, H (sometimes), M (sometimes) and O (favorite)

And then there's all the things Everett can understand even if he doesn't have words for it yet: if he's hungry he goes to his chair, if you ask him if he wants to go outside he gets his shoes and waits anxiously by the front door, if you order him to give what he's holding to someone he usually will (and he does a lot of returning of items since he likes to steal things from his friends at daycare), he'll give hugs to people and stuffed animals, occasionally will blow kisses, he'll dance and jump.

The little boy loves to be read to, and will flip through books by himself. He likes alphabet books, books with flaps or sliding pictures, and texture books (especially with furry puppies). Eric had to tell me to stop buying Everett books because his library is growing rapidly - but I can't help it!

And last, randomly, the little boy has no fear now when it comes to the playground: