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"!

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.