Gregory has (finally!!) said Mama a number of times over the past couple of days.  As I said yesterday, “oh, Gregory, I’ll do anything for you when you say mama!”  It creates such a warmth in my heart to hear him say that word.

It has been fascinating to watch his language development.  He is definitely taking the slow and measured approach to language acquisition.  Right now his language mainly consists of useful words like “boom”, “up” (said: uh, uh), “off”, “out” (said: ou, ou), and “more!!” (said: mo, mo while pointing vigorously)  He also has started to say “bird”, “ball” and “bear” (while pointing at book with a picture of a bear).  They all sound rather similar, but I think I can detect slight differences.  He likes to point out the window and say “bir, bir!”, causing us all to stop what we are doing to look.  Sometimes there is a bird, sometimes there isn’t, but I think he does it just because he finds it funny to watch us all stop and look.  Even though his vocabulary is quite limited, our little Gregory generally has no problem getting his desires across and he really is a happy little guy. Gregory and Emma play really well together (although they squabble over the step-stool in the kitchen frequently) and it is such a joy to watch them.  I love having two children!