Look Who's Talking

Lately, Liam has been adding words to his vocabulary at a fast pace. He still doesn't say a lot of words, but it's still impressive to hear a proper word come out of his mouth.

The new ones lately (just in the past couple of weeks) are:
ball
block
car
dog

Pretty much all related to toys..ha!

All of those he has said more than once, and can easily identify those things.

This past weekend, he started saying "mine" and "my," but not in any context. He's usually not holding any objects when he says them. He just walks around saying, "mine, mine, mine." So I don't think he really understands what it means yet, or he really does think he owns this place. However, he does pronounce the word very clearly. Some of the other words are usually missing the last sound. Car is typically "cah."

book - said once, while walking away from me going to get a book

He is also working on saying "down" and "dark." Dark came about because anytime I go in the bathroom and don't turn on the light, Liam follows me and closes the door. I always say, "It's dark." and he picked up on it and started saying, "dar."

The other words he says (and has been saying for awhile) are:
mama (still a fave of his!)
dad and dada
hi
hey
good
go (always said as go, go go)
cat-used sparingly
baby

He also said IKEA that one time. He also said "Thank you (dankoo)" one time. So all in all, not a lot of words, but he definitely understands more than this!

He also still loves to "babble," but I know even that will turn into words eventually!

As for sign language, the only one he ever uses is "more." He loves that one, though. He's an enthusiastic user of that sign. I've been doing several others with him for a while now, that he understands, but doesn't do. I've recently started teaching him more signs. hopefully he will pick up on them.

As for animals sounds, he does two of them now. "moo" for a cow and "ah ah ah" for a monkey. He can usually do them on command, too. Very cute.

I just have to mention this so I can remember it: he doesn't say the word "socks" but he's certainly a fan of them. He takes socks and lays them on top of his feet. Then he usually brings them to me and attempts to lift one of his feet so I can put it on him. Little dude loves socks.