Words....and things to remember.

Words that Matteo Bao is now using....he is now also trying to pronounce words sometimes when I ask him if he can say it...other times he just repeats or seems to be try to repeat words that I say when we are looking at his picture books.

1. Us....meaning Bus
2. Mama
3. Gack Gack Gack meaning Quack Quack Quack
4. Babo meaning Bubble
5. Ba....Ball
6. Ca....Car...seems to be pronouncing the "r" a little bit
7. Ca....Cat and Dog I think
8. Cacker....Cracker
9.  Go...Go
10. Giu....Juice
11. Nana ....a nickname for my niece Madeline, Mana...
12. In addition to waving bye bye, he now says Bye.

He is able to sign ..."more" as well as sometimes signs for "help me" as in says Mama, and then signs help me....hands to his belly.

He nods for no, and seems to sometimes nod for yes...still points a lot to communicate but sometimes gets even more frustrated when he is trying to tell me something that I can't understand.

He is babbling a lot more now that seems different...

He knows the names of all the cats, but doesn't try to repeat them. He is starting to be gentler with the cats now, and pets them gently and even tries to give them kisses. When he first started walking, he was chasing the cats so they started spending a lot more time in the basement when Matteo was around...but two of the cats are starting to feel more comfortable again as they did in the past....Matteo is now even helping me give the cats treats, which is one of the things we do during our morning routing....in the past they would usually run away and give up the treats....I love this photo as it says so much, love how Matteo's hand is on Bice's paw and if you knew Bice, he's the cat that likes being touched the least..so this is amazing....I'm so happy all my boys are getting along....I think it helped that he started to feed them treats!!!