Trying to keep up with the lad..
I vacationed for a few days and came back and his voice was deeper and his features more developed. The morphing that takes place right before my eyes but I don’t see it unless I don’t.. amazing.
This morning I opened the door to look outside, he pointed outdoors and said “Da”, I suppose because he associates outdoors with me since I walk him occasionally, and when I closed the door he cried. He wouldn’t have staying inside (not that I necessarily wanted him to), so I took him for a walk – that made him happy again.
If you set him in front of a clip from LADY AND THE TRAMP of the doggie being introduced to a newborn babe in a crib (thanks to my sister-in-law for sending that clip), at the sight of the dog he squeals a high pitch of joy, says “Da! Da!.. ” repeatedly, and makes the sign for dog (patting his thigh as to beckon a dog). Unless you’re trying to videotape him doing this and he senses the performance pressure. I’ll make another attempt at taping this without pressure, just all candid-like..
Mom holds him above obstructions to look at me and he beams and giggles.
This past month or so he crawls up to the Spider Man Ride-On toy (a little push-car he can sit on – a Christmas find from a sibling), hoists himself up to stand alongside it, presses the button on the steering wheel to play the gingle: “SPIDER MAN, SPIDER MAN.. nothing can stop the amazing wall-crawler!” – smiles, and wiggles his knees and bum up and down in a dance. He does the same for the other steering wheel button which says “My spidey sense is tingling!” – and presses either over and over.
For the sound of a bear, gorrilla, aligator, or monster he’ll do a chest-growled but rhaspy “RRaah!” – so bear is both just a chest grunt and that.
He does a car sound: BVVVVVVBBBBVVV. He picked that up after just one demonstration from me.
He says dog (da) ball (ba), dada, mama, banana (nana), cheerios (dcheess) this (deez) that (dat), grandpa (bapa), SPIDER MAN (bai-man!), and dam, the last of which we properly don’t know what it applies to.. yeah, maybe it’s one of those first things they pick up from you and shouldn’t have.
He signs music, light, dog, elephant, baby, bed (rarely), and waves bye-bye. To sign music he’ll sometimes use one arm like conducting, and at other times hold both hands together and wiggle his arms abruptly back and forth and all around, with this open-eyed, concerted look on his face.. funny.
He’s been pointing for maybe a month. If you amuse him he might point at you and laugh. That’s rather culturally taboo isn’t it? I like it though.
He’s had four teeth in for some time.