Turning it Off

"OFF!" says Jonah as he turns off the TV with the remote. He runs away giggling and then comes back and turns it on briefly just to turn it off again and shout, "off!" again. He clearly picked up on our message from early on that we don't want him watching TV!!!

He also says off while shutting off lights. He likes to really articulate the ffff part of "off"!

Copy Cat!

Jonah can copy almost any word you say. We tested this out the other day with his name puzzle. I would say each letter and point to it and he'd repeat each letter... "J", "O", "N", "A", "H". He got them all perfectly! He especially liked the "H". He carried it around saying, "aech"!

Finding the J

More games: The other day we were skyping with my parents. The laptop was set up on a table so that they could watch him play. On his own, he started playing "where's Jonah?". He crouched down out of view, while we said "Where's Jonah?" Whenever he's playing this game he looks at us, holding his hands palms up, as if gesturing "I don't know!" Then he popped up into the view of the camera, laughing and clapping.

This evening we were playing upstairs in the bedroom and we asked Jonah to go find his "J". He went into his room and found the name puzzle (build into the top of the wooden stool) and picked up the "h". Not bad! He understood what we were talking about!

Aliza gave Jonah and piece of trash and asked him to throw it away. He took it, went into the next room and threw it in the trash can.

He's figure out how to open doors by turning and pulling the door knob.

A Fun Day- playing and game making!

Jonah had a play date today with Juliet (who for the record is basically the same age as he is). For the first time, he shared his toys without a fuss and even tried to share his juice with her (his most treasured thing!) He was less generous with sharing "Bunny" but we'll forgive him for that.
He pat her on the back and even called her "baby" (I think!) Overall they played stupendously well together, and even sat down for a shared Cheerios snack.

Later tonight, he played a game with us which was all his doing. He took a big spoon off the shelf and ran away with it behind his back. Then he'd come to Sam and I and would intentionally hide it behind his back with one hand and with the other hand make the gesture like, "What's going on here?" prompting us to ask him where the spoon was. He'd then pull it out from behind his back and start laughing.

14 months, 18 words

Doggy
Daddy (sounds just like Doggy but looking at Daddy)
Mamma, Mammoooo (both for mommy)
More ("mo", as in "mo better")
Juice (emphasis on the "uice")
Cheese ("cheeeeese")
Chicken (nuggets)
sticker
lights (emphasis on "TS", a silent "li")
Bunny ("unny")
wuwu (sound the dog makes)
wawa (not to be confused with wuwu)
fish ("ish")
cracker (surprisingly close!)
bottle (baba)
Zacky (for Zack in his daycare, said surprisingly clear-- even Carolyn could tell!)
Car (cacacar)
Yogurt (gogurt)

Sitting, climbing, and more talking

Jonah learned to sit on his own today-- Sam showed him how to turn around and sit on the steps and while we were getting dinner ready, he went and did it on his own-- up on the third step, just sitting there.

He has become quite fond of climbing up on things-- his new favorite thing to do is climb up on his step stool and play with things on the ottoman.

At daycare today, he said "Zacky" for the boy (Zack) that he plays with there. When he was ready to leave, he grabbed his lunch bag, slung it over his shoulder and waved bye to everyone!

We have a feeling he understands way more than he can articulate-- he can feed a bottle to his babydoll when you tell him to, he put his bottle pieces together today after watching Sam do it,
He points to his ears when you ask "Where are your ears?" and can name many of the pictures in his "Big Book of Words" book, including; cheese, doggy (for all 4 legged creatures), juice, water, car.