Monday, March 31, 2008

Communication Update

Most used phrases:

Daddy, wotch dis.
Wotch Bob or TeeVee Bob
Up. Mommy. Mommy. Up. (after he wakes up and is summoning me)
Nee-oh (for No).
Dis won. Dat won. Dis way. Dat way.
Eeee-doh, mommy (Thank you mommy and Here you go mommy)

Dapes! (Grapes! always with the exclamation point)
Pete-sa (pizza)

Pay choo-choo. (Play trains with me)
Wide horse! (I'm riding the horse!)
Babbies (batteries, as in this toy needs babbies)

Pat Teats. (pat Keats)
Teats, hush.
He practices the K sound by saying Kuh, kuh, kuh, teats.
See Teats. (I see Keats or I can't see Keats)

Noo die-pah.
No Daddy. and NO DADDEEE! No Mommy. and NO MOMMEEE! (accompanied by the back-arching limp technique; usually after we tell him he needs a noo die-pah)

Whay daddy dough? (where's daddy? where did Daddy go?)
Way home daddy. (Daddy is on his way home)
Work daddy. (Daddy has left for work)
Won. Twoooooo. (one two)
Ah Be SEEE. He can participate in the ABC song on G, P, Z, and sometimes X.
He can recognize the letter "O" pretty much anywhere, can sometimes pick out A, I, and P.

Truck and BEEEEG truck
Cat bus
Skoo bus
Mimmyvan (minivan)
Names (James, his BFF from down the block).
Names house. (where he wants to go when we walk Keats in that direction).
mis-nahmen (Miss Carmen, his morning teacher)
But (bert)
Eddy (ernie)
Soop (Scoop the bulldozer)
Nup truck (dump truck)
wolwee (roley the road roller).


Bahbah-dee; bahbah-dee. Hay, hay. Laif. Doughs. On. (Life goes on. Tony taught him this. It is hysterical when he chooses to sing it.)

He is starting to say "Eye yooo" for "I love you," but only if we request it.

Yesterday he said some semblance of "Bless you" when I sneezed but I can't remember exactly what he said.

He repeats everything, and about 75% of the time we can figure out what he means. It's great!

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