Word updates

He's got some great new words - in addition to the old faithful "fyonto yodo" (front loader), he now has "baygo teener" (vacuum cleaner), "baydo" (blanket), "wayuphigh" to stand on our shoulders, "wantdown" to get down from his high chair, and my personal favourite "elfo wattatan". Any guesses? No? How about "elephant watering can". Give yourself five bucks from me if you matched Bec's prowess at figuring that one out.

He also has entered a phase that we'd refer to in software as "babbling interrupt" - he says a word or a phrase and he'll repeat in 981 times until you echo it back to him. Sometimes he's asking for something, but sometimes he's not even really talking to you. Only saying the phrase back to him stops the incessant self-monologue. Mostly it's cute but it does wear at times.

He understands so much. He follows instructions pretty well, even sets of 2 or 3 instructions sometimes. He seems to understand conditions and sequences. In spite of the babbling, sometimes it's hard to get him to repeat something you didn't understand, or only understand part. Repeating what he says "acknowledges the interrupt" in software parlance, and so he stops saying it. But he doesn't understand when you ask him to repeat it. We're going to need to work at developing that concept I think because it leads to frustration on both sides at times.

All in all the whole communication thing is coming along nicely.