We have had a bit of a language explosion this month. In addition to more, eat, milk, hot, cold, hungry, please, all done, and dog, Oscar has also picked up flower, agua, shoes, Jesus, sun, fish, hat, apple, rain, and baby in the past two weeks. It is so wonderful to see how much he is learning and how happy he is to be able to communicate all these words, mostly without talking. (For talking we have hot, uh-oh, dah (down), ah-duh (all done), and an approximation of Jesus.) He also likes to do our Making Music versions of Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho and Humpty Dumpty, where you make the beat by slapping on your leg and then fall down at the appropriate times - he will start patting his leg with a hopeful look and come wiggle right up to sit down with me so I'll sing. He also tries to sign "sun" for Itsy Bitsy Spider. And he still thinks every phone will show him a picture of a dog, or if it's my phone, will let him talk to Dad. It's pretty great.
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| Concrete bleachers in background: conquered |
I didn't think he could back down stairs but he climbed all the way up the concrete bleachers at Malcolm's baseball game and backed all the way back down last weekend, so I guess he's pretty good on that now? He can slide off our bed and the fireplace hearth also. He's pretty cautious - if he can't reach down with his hand he'll turn around and scoot backwards - but extremely determined.
Finally, Oscar also likes to play swords or lightsabers with his brothers (a little, at least), and to bang cups and everything else he can find on the ground. Loudly. If you ask him to be quiet he usually screeches in reply. But he mostly behaves at church if you let him go back and forth in the pew.
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