Thursday, February 7, 2008

Where is Connor's finger?

Connor has really continued to develop his vocabulary, both in understanding and speaking. He's sort of been working on two big fronts: body parts and forms of transportation. There is a Rescue Vehicles book of Jamie's that Connor is obsessed with. For fire truck he says, "woo-woo-woo". Whenever he wants to read the book he goes marching off to get it, happily intoning the fire engine noise all the way. He can more or less recognize and more or less name ambulances, police motorcycles and boats. Planes he's not so good with, still calls them boats. He also has a trains (joo-joo) book, which can be read infinite times. Here he takes particular pleasure in seeing a moon (MOOOON!!) cars (ahhhhh!!) and the bus. This he works really hard at saying. It comes out in two syllables: "Bah-suh". There is a conductor, too, and Connor relishes saying "All Aboard," rendered as "Ahhh-BOH!"

He is also slowly learning the parts of his face. One can ask "Where are your ears?" and he will point to one of them. And then the index finger invariably keeps going into the feature in question. We've learned to ask, "Where is your nose?" last. Also, ask "Where is Daddy's/Mommy's mouth?" at one's own risk.

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