Mister Chatterbox

Little c is a talker. I suspected he would be, especially since I had the endearing nickname of Motor Mouth as a youngster. He babbles constantly from the time he wakes up until I rock him to drowsiness. He even likes to sing while I'm singing to him, drowning out my poor singing voice with his.

I thought I would take a moment and record the words I can remember that he says so I can share them with him down the road.

1. Na-noo - his soother (or binky, or pacifier as many of you would call it).

2. Na-na - banana, which he still goes crazy for. He really does resemble a monkey when he sees one.

3. Nana, Papa - Grandma and Grandpa Sydorko. We say hi and goodbye to them several times a day (as we do with other photos of family) and last night he mastered Papa, just in time for Papa's birthday today!

4. Ball - ball, which he loves to play with.

5. Bubble - bubble, which he likes to blow with his spit (he just opens his mouth and a bubble forms which he blows out...I honestly don't know where he learned how to do that).

6. Baa-loon - balloon. Loves these things for 5 minutes and then doesn't give a rats a** about them.

7. Puh-pull - purple. He said this last night when I pointed to the colour and had him repeat after me. He got it on the first try.

8. Mama and Dadda

9. Ufff - dog.

10. Chh - Cheers! We like to cheers our glasses against his sippy cup at every meal.

11. Baa-baa - bottle, which we're trying to wean him off. He's down to one bottle a day but it's so hard to get him off of it.

12. Choo-choo - train. The kids loves trains. Can't blame him, it's in his blood.

13. Busy Bee - that's the name of his Pillow Pet, which is a bee. He says it very clearly, right before he pounces on it and buries his head in between Busy Bee's wings.

In addition to these spoken words, he's really mastered a few signs. He does "all done", "more" and "drink" very clearly. We didn't know he knew "more" until the other day when he started doing it, so we went and got more of whatever it was he was eating and he was very pleased with the result.

I wonder what new word he'll learn today.