"Jonah Do!"

"Daddy's juice" (pointing to wine bottle)
"Mommy tush" (while mommy is getting dressed)
"machine" (lawn mower next door)
"op-nee window" (open window)
"take home" (about toy in store he wanted).
"tankyu" (thank you) when we bought the toy, said to store clerk).
"bye bye home" (driving away from home)
"More adar" (more stars- when making stars out of playdoh)
"Mommy hair"
"Fire hot!"
"Birdie Tweet Tweet"
"No, all done!"
"More cando!" (more candle)
"Basemnt" (basement)
"Bye Bye Peens" (saying good bye to his penis when we put diaper on)
"twaitwax" (train tracks)
"MisRaja" (Mister Rogers)
"Noise"
"Ububu" (umbrella)
"Bye Bye AnnaJoan" (anna and jon, our neigbors)
"Sit ca" (sit in the car)
"motoca" (motorcycle)
"Big truck"
"Back sweep" (wants to go back in crib)
"Twinka twinka" (twinkle twinkle)
"No ticko" (no tickle)
"Mail truck"
"coffee hot"
"Adar" (a star)
"trianguh" (triangle)
"hurko" (circle)
"mo angie peese!" (more orange please!)

Kids say the darndest things

While putting Jonah to bed each night, I sing him the song from "Dumbo", "Baby Mine". It usually lulls him right into la-la land. Tonight, for the first time he started to repeat words in the song, like "eyes", "baby", etc.

He told me today, "put playdoh away". I think this is one of his first real sentences. Yesterday, he went up to Sam's feet and pointed, saying, "Daddy's toes" and then to his own toes, "Jonah's toes".

Jonah's grandparents, "Tata" and "Saba" (my parents) came to visit this weekend. We had so much fun together. We went to a petting zoo with bunnies, baby chicks, baby goats, a pony and baby alpacas. Jonah loved to pet them all. Then, we heard a live band at the same farm, where he really enjoyed dancing.

Jonah has a new babysitter Melissa ("Lissa") that he adores. She stays with him while mommy takes a water color painting class on Mondays. He likes her necklace with the stars on it ("a-dar, pretty, nice") and also likes her "baselets".

The other day when it rained, Jonah told us "naining, umbella".

Paint and Play-Doh Please!

This morning was an artistic one. After breakfast, we went to Jonah's room and he pointed at the play-doh, wanting to play with it. He wasn't sure what to call it, but as soon as I named it for him, he repeated, "Pay doh!" We rolled it, cut out stars ("dah") and had a lot of fun, even when Jonah rubbed it in his hair when he was "all-done!"
Immediately following this, he asked for "paint!" so we pulled out the finger paints and he went to it. He must be getting ready for the art class we signed him up for next week.
His language has grown tremendously over the past month.
He now has mini sentences like these:
"No, mommy" (all time favorite)
"No more cereal" (or oatmeal or whatever he's eating).
"Paint house" (saw people on TV painting a house)
"Park 'Neek" (we played at the park with his friend Monique)

MORE PLEASE!

Jonah's first two-word combination of words is "more please!"

He said it while asking for more cereal from Daddy's bowl.

Almost 16 months and sayin' all this....!

New Words This Month (in addition to those posted on Jan 5):

Hot

Cold

Up

Down

All-Done!

"-'Tar" (Guitar)

"H" (the letter)

"O" (the letter)

Hat

Cat

Diapie (diaper)

Paci (pacifier)

Movie

Uh-Oh (when food drops)

Clean up (when putting toys away)

Baff (bath)

Hi

Hello

Bye

Cooco (cookie)

moon

star (dar)

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"!