i have a ton of pics to post dating all the way back to christmas, however, even though we have dug an old computer out of storage and hooked it up to replace the blowed-up one, we have not yet hooked it up to our printer, scanner, card reader, and external hard drive where all the photos are stored. eventually i swear.
these days quentin is a quite a handful. he is all boy and loves to run and jump and climb. if you turn your back for one minute, he will be in the window sill banging on the glass or jumping on the coffee table. he is non-stop energy and wears us out. it is funny to see him in comparison to other kids his age, especially the girls in his gym class or his friend lilly. he just does not sit still. ever. linda has started calling him the tazmanian devil!
he still isn't really conversing though he does have several words and phrases he uses sporadically but never on command. he goes to the pediatrician next week for his 18-month check-up and we are wondering if he will be required to have early speech intervention. i am guessing yes. he chatters like crazy, we just don't understand it most of the time!
his new favorite thing is talking on the phone. he loves to snatch the phone or our cell phones and hold them up to his ear, blabbering away. in a pinch, the TV remote, the baby monitor, or the power brick from my laptop also serve as excellent phones.
words he uses (a count so mommy can tell the doctor):
- mama
- dada
- doggy
- kitty
- hi
- bye
- yeah
- no
- thank you
- oh man
- oh no
- uh oh
- linda
- juice
- what's this?
- i did it
- dude
- up
- fish
- yuv (you-vee: one of the boys at day care)
- all done
i know there's probably some i am forgetting. i may edit to add them if i think of more!
most of the multi-word phrases are totally mimicked from the big boys at daycare and are especially cute. my favorite is, "oh man," usually muttered while walking around with his arms up in the air. :)
3 comments:
Funny, Tim asked me in the fall why I was writing down all Will's words. For the doctor, same as you!
We have friends who have a little boy Will's age, and he didn't start talking until Thanksgiving, which was 20 months. He would talk in a language that was a lot like english, then look at you like, "Well?". Then all of a sudden he started speaking english. Who knows.
that's what we're thinking with Q - he definitely talks in some Q language and he knows what he's saying. he'll often repeat the same gibberish over and over and then gets frustrated that we don't understand. i definitely think he's going to be one of those kids who just starts speaking in full sentences all of a sudden!
Q may have picked up the phone thing from Calder. He loves to have conversations with imaginary people. However, as soon as you put him on the phone with a real person he just stares at it like he's never seen one before.
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