14 months

My little boy is not so little anymore. He's such a busy boy these days, I can barely keep up with him from trying to climb the baby gate to hiding in the closet to jump out to scare me. I cannot get over all the personality he has. Not to mention, his intellect. Who knew that at 14 months, he would know all that he knows.  For instance, body parts, now he knows hair, ears, eyes, nose, mouth, tongue, teeth, belly, belly button, finger, hand, toes and feet. He probably knows more, but I just don't know it yet. We read a book by Sandra Boynton (who is my favorite children's author) called horns to toes and in between. When we read it, we make sure to touch all the parts mentioned in the story. Another story that he loves, is the little monkeys jumping on the bed. When we read or say the part, bumped his head, he smacks his head, and just the other day he started smacking mine. It cracked me up. Then when we say, no more monkeys jumping on the bed, he will shake his finger at them. Wednesday, he brought me over an "I SPY" book that our neighbors handed down to us, and I thought, he's not big enough yet. While we tried it, and he didn't do too bad, but the part that made me laugh was when I asked where something was and he pointed to the page that gave the clues not the picture. 

His vocabulary is still limited. He says things that start with "d" but they all sound the same, duck, dog, door, dora, and then da da. He points to things and says "that", as if what's that. I swear he has said Turbo a few times and Stella (our neighbors dog). I am sure by the time I come back from Africa, he will be doing and saying so much, or at least it will seem like it to me. 

"hang on let me right that number down"