Metal Meredith

Phil and I got to talking about the number of words Henry knows these days. He is a chatterbox, which we weren’t expecting from all of the people who told me that boys learn to talk slower and are more physical. Well, the physical thing is apparent, but Henry never shuts up. He starts the moment he wakes up and doesn’t stop until lights out.

In my head, I started to make a list of words that he knows. It got so long that I am going to make it here. Warning, boring list and little brag ahead:

kitty
doggie
bag
car
cheese
milk
eat
cookie
grape
Elmo
sheep
birdie
cow
apple
outside
juice
book
shoe
sock
nose
eyes
ball
bubble
balloon
hello
bye
liesel
friedrich
mama
daddy
ouch
ok

He also can tell you the sounds the following animals make:

cow
bird
duck
dog
cat
rooster
sheep

He likes to mimic all kinds of sounds as they happen, like the train whistle, computer beeps or car alarms, car noises and music. He sings pieces of the ABC song, Twinkle Twinkle and Itsy Bitsy Spider. He dances to anything that remotely sounds like music. Many times, I have caught him moving his shoulders to the beat of the radio in the car. It is like he doesn’t even know he is doing it. He likes to yell “Bye. See you later!” at people when we are leaving. It sounds more like “Bye, La la la later” but it is really cute. He also says Bless you when you sneeze and if he falls down, he immediately gets up and says “You ok?” He says Thank you and Welcome at random times.

He is just so cute. All the things above make him that much sweeter each day.