Twenty One Months

WOW!! Diego hit 21 months and took off talking!! This month he has added 20 words to his vocabulary that he says on a regular basis. He has, however, said a whole slew of other words that he had mimicked after us. He will say these words for one day, or just for that moment. He mimics our words all the time now, it's very cute. One of my favorite one-day-words was "beep beep beep," when we were singing "Wheels on the Bus."

Diego's new words are "Nooooo" ( sometimes he says this while wagging his finger back & forth), "book" (he also signs this), "walk, eat (he signs this as well) all gone, ketchup, banana, Amha, easy, please, high (and points up), toe, knock knock, cracker, close, ven aqui, and me (song from Caillou), sucio, don't touch, up above (twinkle little star), and "shoe."

He has also learned where his eyebrows, wrist and "kilikili" (armpit in tagalog) are. Diego has also learned how to sign "hurt," which he learned after he had his boo boo on his knee. I am teaching Diego his ABC's now. He doesn't know which letters are which, but he loves to call them out randomly. Every time we go out & he sees a word, or even numbers, he starts yelling out his b's, and o's, and i's. Those are his favorite letters, and he almost always says them in that order...B-O-I. I still can't get Diego to sleep before 10pm. I have become accustomed to this though, and not bothered by it anymore. I have fought to get him to sleep at 8, and have been defeated over and over again. I have, instead, trained him to stay in his firetruck bed when it's "sleepy time." He is not allowed to leave his bed otherwise he gets a woopin'. He's done very well with this; he usually just plays and talks, and sometimes whines, til he knocks out.