He surprises us with his little answers to our rhetorical questions. He often says "OHkayyyy!", "'cause!", "why?", & "WHAT?!!" He's very polite and says "please, Mommy!" or "please, Daddy!", "Day-doo" (thank you), "Ques me" (excuse me) & "Bless you!" when he hears a sneeze. And we love his greetings in the morning or when we come home - "HI Rarr-rie (Charlie)", "Hi, Mama! Hi, Dad!"
He has started putting his words together. He walked over to Greg the other morning and said "DADDY!.... (then walked to the bedroom door)... OPEN!.... DOOR!" He will tell us that it's "dark-n-dere" when looking into a dark room or hallway, "Where-arrrrre-you?" when he's looking for someone or "right dere!" or "dere 't is!" when he's found something.
I'd love to list the words that he says but honestly he'll attempt any. And if he doesn't quite get all of the sounds right, he can always at least imitate the correct amount of syllables. Charlie was such a quiet little toddler, he probably didn't really start talking until he was about 2 (now he doesn't stop!). But Charlie knew tons and tons of baby signs. When we tried teaching Jack baby signs he'd just stare at us like we were clowns and then just say the word we were signing.
Some of Jack's words are incredibly similar and only decipherable to the trained ear (mommy's). For instance, He say "Choo Chooo" when he hears a train whistle or wants his little Thomas the Tank Engine toy but he says "Tch-chooo" when he wants a tissue for his sniffles.
He's also started learning the words to some songs.. "ABC's" (but he doesn't know letters yet.. Charlie learned his letters when he was 2 but didn't learn the song until later), "Itsy-bitsy spider", "Once there was a Snowman", oh, and of course the Cougar Fight Song (& he's always walking around saying "B-Y-U Cougars!". I have to get these on tape, but it's almost impossible.
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