Up, Down, Hop, Help, Hat, Dada...but mostly No

Quinn's words. He uses 'up' pretty accurately now. 'Down' comes out like "dowwwww". He uses 'hop' a lot while bouncing stuffed or plastic animals. We're gradually having success at training him to use 'help' ("hep") to replace general shrieking when he can't do something himself. 'Hat' was one of the first random repetitions he uttered but he's not so much into that word any more. 'Dada' seems to come out when daddy's going to work, which is pretty special.

But as to be expected for an almost-one-and-a-half-year-old, 'no' is the most popular word in his vocabulary. He applies it to every situation, and it might possibly be accurate sometimes, but it largely seems to be a random utterance, signifying his independent intentions of whatever we might have planned for him.

I think he understands a lot of words. Many he obviously grasps; many others I think he has a general idea about. We still read books that are quite advanced for him. Many of them I think he understands, to a certain degree anyway. He's still quite excited about reading and gets a great big grin on when he picks out a book and brings it over to the couch to read. It's one of the favourite things we all share together. May that continue for years to come.