Friday, April 01, 2005

Catching up and talking

Sorry about the lack of updates. I'll follow with a physical update at his 15 month check up in a few weeks, but in the meantime here is what has been going on the this first half of being 14 months:

Talking: Zack has been really talky lately. I've rigged a mic connected to the computer to work with the software Sound Snooper to voice-activatedly record his crib babble. It hasn't worked so welll so far because the mic or software produces an annoying level of background signal noise, but i'll have to fix that. Needless to say he is very cute and his vocabulary of spoken words is:
Ball "baah"
Star "tar"
Toy "toyie"
Wheel "wee-oh-wee-oh-wee-oh-wee-oh"
Bike "bie"
Balloon "bah boo"
Bubble "buh buh"
Hi "Hieee"
Bye-Bye "buh bye doh"*
Daddy "dah-ie"
Mommy "mah-ie"
These are in addition to about a dozen or so other words he understands but doesn't say, and a chorus of about 6 animal noises. he likes to make.

* we finally realized where this extra syllable came from. We would say "Say bye bye to mommy" or "say bye bye to the doggie" and he would say, "bye bye to"

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