As of yesterday, H has taken a decided interest in words and learning to speak. He worked on mastering all the animal sounds. When questioned, H reports that a duck says a throat clearing "akak" and horse says "aehh aehhh" He also says truck--"uck" and green-- "een" (all learned yesterday). While these are barely intelligible words, it really is amazing to us. He knows some sign language (see picture above where H is demonstrating 'cookie' as he watches a birthday cake go by). As for vocabulary, H has maintained the same arsenal of 10 ubiquitous words (e.g. "uh oh" which has uses from everything including 'oops' to 'I can't remember where my ears are' to 'where the hell did it go' to 'gee, that seems out of place'). Really, why bother learning anything new when most everything can be expressed with these words... But I guess that's why these past few days have been exciting. The reason H has suddenly taken an interest in expanding his vocabulary is a mystery. Though it may be related to the visitors that we had this past weekend.
Friends of ours came down to visit from their new home just three hours north of us. They recently moved across country, so it had been a few years since we had seen them. Their little boy is a year and half older than H-- a wonderful, talkative fellow with a very active imagination. Perhaps H was impressed with his ability to communicate with adults. Who knows? But I'm excited it's starting to click for him.
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