Baby, Teddy & Ta

Lucas is definitely coming out with more new words and keeps on surprising us and here a few recent ones along with dog (his first word), car, na-na (means food, comes from banana), turtle, daddy and mum.

Whilst on the changing table the other day we said to him "hello baby" so as to keep him amused and occupied and he replied back with "baby" (sounded more like ba-bee) but we certainly could understand him and we kept on repeating this so as to hear him repeat it back to us!

Last night I picked up one of his teddy's and said "what's this?" and he said very clearly "teddy!". We then lined up 3 of his teddies and he proceeded to point to each one and say "teddy". Daniel hadn't heard Lucas say teddy (which I didn't know, until I asked if he had heard Lucas say the word) so we got Lucas to point at the teddies again and say what they were and he even gave one of his teddy's a kiss (twice) which I thought was just too cute!

We have been telling Lucas the word "ta" when we give him something or he gives us something and today at daycare he said "ta" for the first time and his teachers were very pleased to hear that! Obviously good manners are very important!

Lucas in Wellington - 19 months old

car keys + shoes = let's go outside!

This morning while I was in bed "resting" my eyes Lucas picked up my car keys beside the bed. He then proceeded to go to the front door to try and open it by using all the keys on the key ring. Luckily he's still just a tad too short to reach the keyhole properly so this kept him occupied for a good few minutes. He then came walking back into the bedroom holding out a pair of my shoes (and both of them!) as well as dangling the car keys in front of my face. The message was very clear:

car keys + shoes = let's go outside!

The Wheels on the Bus

Lucas didn't see me come into the room when I went to pick him up from daycare today and the song "The Wheels on the Bus go round and round" was playing. All the remaining babies were sitting on the floor around the CD player while Lucas was standing beside it and I was able to watch him do the actions to the songs . When the song came to "the horn on the bus goes beep, beep, beep" Lucas would point to his nose and then he pointed to Holly's nose indicating the beeping action. It was very cute!

Tea party time

Today when I picked up Lucas from daycare he was sitting at the little tea party table which had the tea set out. He was pretend eating with a fork and drinking out of a cup and was having a grand old time even though he was sitting all by himself! When I asked him if he was ready to go home he shook his head vigorously and then proceeded to run away from me still holding his cup and fork!

More

We have been doing sign language with Lucas and for a few words that we felt would be useful i.e bath, sleep etc.

Whenever Lucas wanted more food he would bang his empty bowl which would get louder and louder. We started to show him the sign language for more which is to point your index finger in the middle of your open palm and repeat the word "more".

He will now point his index finger into his empty bowl and say "more" and bring you his bowl and he will also sign for more in the car and say "more" quite persistently when he wants more crackers (or food in general!) . This sign language thing really does work!