Words and More Words

Jaeden at almost 16 months, Jan 2007

Jayce one year ago, July 2007

This evening made me hopeful that Jayce will soon be using more words and less "ahnhn" (currently his word for everything!) and pointing. His new favorite activity is standing on the coffee table or ottoman and attempting to jump. Of course being only 14 months, he does still require help to lower himself to the ground, and is not truly 'jumping'. However, he repeatedly kept saying "jump" every time!! I do wonder why both of my kids have always been so eager to jump. A normal child is able to jump between the age of 2-3 years. Jaeden was successfully jumping with both feet off the ground several months before he turned 2 years, and it seems that Jayce will be following in his lead. The scary thing is being able to read Jayce's mind eventhough he is not talking. His face definitely reads "How do I make myself jump?"

The other words Jayce shared with us this evening were Dog and thank you. He has said thank you before, but it's been awhile, and it was the first time he said dog that I know of. At least my mom was here to vouch for these words because when I tried to have Jayce tell his daddy the words, he thought it was funnier to blow raspberries.

Another story from this morning: We were all sitting at the breakfast table, when Joel asked 'what do we do before we eat?' and Jayce instantly folded his arms, and i think attempted to say the word 'prayer' He responded much faster than Jaeden.

Memory Lane: By 15 months, Jaeden was regularly using the words - outside, elephant, horse, cat, dog, pancake, apple, mama, dada, more, all done, help, no, up, 'hold you', teletubbies
By 19 months, Jaeden was counting from one to ten.