Words

Nathan is 19 months and a few days, and it seems like he is picking up words like crazy.  Before he gets too communicative, I want to document his words thus far.

• Dada
• Papa (every time he hears a knock on the door or we pull up to my grandparents house or my parents' house or when he sees a light-colored SUV resembling my dad's or when he sees either Papa)
• Babou (at the beach he called Babou (Gus' stepdad) "Papa" but has been saying Babou now when looking at pictures)
• Ball
• Bite (any time anyone is eating anything around him, usually followed by the "please" sign)
• Mama or Mimi (he's only said either of these a handful of times, and half of those times I'm not even sure he's referring to me)
• Bless you (this started out as da-doo when someone would sneeze, but now it sounds more and more like bless you)
• Bible
• Nathan (sounds like Nay-nay)
• Baby
• Teeth
• Feet
• Boo-boo
• Jesus
• Amen (he sings the three-fold Amen after we pray before meals and at church after the benediction with the congregation)
• Shoe
• Poopoo
• Apple (sounds like bapple)
• Juice 
• Cheese (for the food and for pictures)
• Duck
• Doggy
• Lion
• Beep (there is never just one beep though...it's always two or three)
• Peekaboo (sounds like pea-boo)

There are some words that I'm pretty sure that I know what he's saying but they aren't always that clear, e.g. backhoe, vacuum.  He also says Veggie Tales, though other people would probably not realize it, and yesterady when we watched an episode together, I'm pretty sure he was saying several words along with the theme song.  

I taught him to say "Daaaad?" whenever he wakes up, like in a Macaulay Culkin voice from Home Alone when he goes downstairs and says "Mom? Dad? Buzz?"  He does the "Dad" one without prompting pretty frequently but now with prompting he can do the "Mooom" part, and he even says "Buu" sometimes too.  So guess we're going to have to name #2 Buzz.  

He also does a lot of animal noises, and I was afraid he would stop doing them, but so far they have only gotten more enthusiastic.  At the beginning of our street now is a house with cows, horses, dogs, and goats, and he goes crazy making his whole list of animal sounds when we pass by, even if those particular animals aren't there.  He loves doing the sheep, and he oftentimes mistakes white cars on the road for sheep.  He loves doing the elephant noise and playing elephant with Daddy.  Here is a video from a couple months ago of his lion impression (this is the best I could do since he does not stay still):