Introduction

Until now I kept a journal of each new word Theo learned. I happily recorded the words in a little book. The bad news is, I abandoned my word-documenting project. The good news is, he says so much now that it would be impossible to write down everything.

Of course, there are words that he's just repeating and imitating, as opposed to using with function and understanding. However, he is understanding more and more each day. His pointing has increased greatly. He doesn't yet point to ask "what's that" but he does point to things he knows, and often names them. He uses pointing as a means of asking for something, instead of grabbing it or dragging me to it.

To my delight he has also started, maybe in the last week, to count things at random. For instance, on Sunday we were walking in Flushing Meadow and he counted a set of four trees. Sometimes I'll catch him counting his fingers and toes. The first time he counted straight through to 5 was on his toes, when Theresa was here a few weeks ago. Then, Joe heard him count to 10 on the bus to his mom's. That was Sat, April 1st. And he wasn't fooling :) Since then I've also heard him count to 10. It's so cute:

Un
Two
Tee
Po
Pife
Fith
En
Eight
Nine
En

It's cute when he skips 4, anxious to get to 5, because 5 was always when he'd get tickled when we taught him to count on our hands.

He has the sweetest little voice.