In the last month, Luca has started morphing into a Myna bird. At unexpected times. One day we'll sing a belly button song, he pokes my belly button, his belly button, Josh's belly button, tries to find Jude's belly button. Then a week later he walks up to me and out of nowhere pats his tummy and says "button." And then he won't say it again. So crazy. So, his list of words has grown enormously, but his list of repeated words is still normal sized.
Funny story, we are apparently not teaching Luca the words for concrete things, like bed, chair, bowl, sofa, bike, whatever. We are instead teaching him abstract words like down, many, and full. So he likes his new words but has no idea what they mean. He just comes over to you, says "up" (he knows that one), then when you're holding him points in every which direction saying "down." Absolutely no idea what he wants, because it sure isn't down.
Also, he reads =) For a long time he has been careful in selecting books. He'll pull one off the shelf, look at the cover, and then either bring it to us or pick a new one. And he has favorite pages in the book that once we get to, the book is over. I haven't read past the "ALL THE HIPPOS GO BERSERK!" page in ages. Luckily, he's loved that book forever and so I don't need the pages to finish the book, I just recite them while he picks a new one. But so he picks the book he loves, and brings it to us doing something from the book. We have a book that's a song, and he brings it while singing "ooooooohhhhhh." Well we also have a Star Trek opposites book and he brought it over open to the page with the tribbles on it (One. Many.) while saying "Many." Had no idea he knew the word much less the page. So he reads. Also he knows "Full" in that book. You point to the page, he says the word. I have a call in to see the minimum age of Mensa membership.
He's finally calling people in pictures by their name instead of calling everyone "Alex." When I asked him to say "Kimmer" he said "cool." I said close enough =)
We tried skipping the morning nap for a week, figured he was probably old enough and it would let me get more stuff done and go places and such. What a terrible decision. I figured by a week he would have learned to lengthen his afternoon nap. He shortened it. We went from going on 3-4 hours of naps during the day to about one, one and a half. Terrible decision. We're back to morning and afternoon napping.
He loves loves loves playing with Jude and getting toys for him. And taking toys from him. Yesterday while Jude was chewing on a toy Luca brought him another one. When Jude wouldn't take it, Luca tried to open his mouth for him. But Luca is good(ish) about throwing the toy and chasing him to get it back and then throwing it again. And oh my goodness he finds the whole thing hysterical. In what I'm sure is unrelated news, Jude sometimes goes upstairs to nap under our bed instead of on the sofa like usual.
We are very excited about the holidays coming up: Thanksgiving, Friendsgivingmas, vacation and Christmas. It's gonna be great!
And obligatory Luca picture He just this last week found my mom's pots and pans. I assume it's because he has so much drummer blood in him, but he figured out that two lids is basically the same as cymbals. He's cute. And, I think it needs to be said, he does NOT want a drum set for Christmas. Unless the giver plans to keep it at their house. Pots and lids are plenty musical for us.
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| See Jude? He says "please don't give that kid anything louder..." |
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