What Alex is saying these days...

Alex has been learning lots of new words in the last few weeks. He has been saying "dada" for daddy for a long time, and finally started saying "mama" a few months back. (He seemed to think it was funny when I would point to myself and say 'Who is this?' to reply, 'dada.') I totally think he knew what he was doing too!!

He has been saying Arya since around the last week of March/first week of April. He says "dada" and "Arya" much more than "mama"!!

In the past few weeks he has started pointing to things he wants. He has also started saying "hot," and when he says it, he holds out his hand and then pulls it back quickly, as if he is touching something hot. The funny thing is that this week he has started saying all sorts of things are "hot", like the light switch, the milk in a cup, or even my arm. I've been trying to let him touch cold things like the gallon of milk from the fridge while I tell him "cold", but he still says "hot" when he touches it! I think he really likes being able to say words that we say though. So cute.

Another fun word he uses is "hide" or "hiding". He loves peek-a-boo, and Arya loves hide-and-seek, so he gets to use these new words often.

Alex loves to watch the birds and squirrels out the window in the living room, and he's been saying "buh" for bird for some time. In the last week and a half or so it has turned into "bur" though...only missing the "d"!

He is definitely understanding a lot of what we tell him. He loves to do high fives, clap his hands, wave hi (which he's been able to say for a good while now) and bye (he says "dah" when he does this - not sure why??), when asked. He also likes us to sing The Itsy Bitsy Spider, while he does motions for the spider and the rain. He will respond to the following requests:
close the door
sit down
come
bring me the ____
give me the ____
There are probably a good number more, but these are the ones I'm thinking of right now.

Today he was walking out of the room and he had taken off one of his shoes and left it in Rajeev's closet, where he was playing. I asked him where he was going and where his shoe was. He came back into the room and went and got his shoe from the closet to show me. It is so much fun to see him learning so much and communicating what he is thinking.