23 Months

 

First off, I wanted to thank all of you for the congrats and sweet comments on my last post. I hope to keep a good record of this next little one, as much as I have with M. Let's hope I have the time and energy. haha...

 

Maximus turned 23 months on the 7th of this month. Needless to say, I'm a little late in getting this posted. I can't believe that in less than two weeks he'll be 2 years old!

 

His language is exploding - he's learning so many new words. Some of the things he says really surprise us. It's a really fun age. Here's some of the stuff he's been saying:

 

people, heart, all done, all gone

 

coohk = cook (one day he pulled open a kitchen drawer, pulled out the oven mit, put it on and said, coohk).

 

whap = wrap (he learned this word around Christmas time).

 

peek = pick (he'll say, "peek up" if he wants you to pick him up).

 

coke = coat

 

weed or weed-ah = weird (apparently I say this word a lot).

 

cap = cap (he loves containers and things with lids/caps and wants to hold them).

 

buba = bubble

 

add-ah = ads (he goes nuts when the circular ads come in the mail. He'll yell, "add-ah" and head on over to the couch so we can look at them and pass them back and forth).

 

ween = wind

 

taow = towel

 

duty = dirty

 

tube-ah = youtube (he loves watching things on youtube and will say, "tube-ah").

 

ee-moe = oatmeal

 

hoat = hold (he's always asking to hold things and also says this when he wants to be held).

 

rock you or rocky you = he wants you to rock him. (He says this a lot before bed. Sometimes we hear him saying/crying it when he wakes up. If he hears a baby somewhere crying. He'll say, "nigh nigh...rock you").

 

taw = straw

 

ope = open

 

een or een-ah = in

 

dean or dean-ah = jeans

 

dammie = jammies

 

bread or bread-ah = bread

 

tiny = he started saying this one day when he was eating blueberries.

 

bean or bean-ah = bean (this is a word that Rob was trying to get him to say for over a year now...haha)

 

low-goak = yogurt (this is probably his favorite food these days).

 

tee tee = TV

 

moo-gick = music (still loves it)!

 

new one = he's been getting in his dresser drawer to get "one" of his blankies and now he calls them "new one" most of the time.

 

logo = he'll recognize logos on objects and will say logo.

 

tappy = strawberry

 

pete = peach

 

come you or comey you = he wants you to come with him. I adore this phrase.

 

key boar = keyboard

 

bud-ah = butter (reminds me of someone from Boston).

 

be-you = teddy bear. Sometimes he'll say teddy.

 

cal-ca-lu = calculator (sometimes referred to as cal-key-lu).

 

cop-oh = couple

 

hokey = okay

 

pee-tee = pretty

 

hap you = help you (if he wants your help or wants to help you, he says this).

 

dat = dance (he begs to dance. It's really cute, he's even pretty good at signing dance).

 

poon = spoon

 

mut = mush

 

keem = cream

 

go be = good boy

 

tun-ah = tunnel

 

 

This guy keeps us busy and makes us laugh. He's such a blessing.

 

 

Happy day!