Revival

Jonah has a huge vocabulary now - which makes sense, given that my last post was a year ago - but much of it is still under-intelligible. However, a lot of the way he says things is adorable - our current favorites are "Thee thoo" for thank you, "apaca maymo" for apricot mango (his favorite flavor of yogurt), and "Cookie Mommer" for - who else? - Cookie Monster.

He loves numbers and letters and shapes.  He knows all of the numbers 0-9, and some of them through twenty.  He recognizes at least half of the letters of the alphabet, and knows the sounds a lot of them make.  He knows all sorts of shapes, which leads me to: I drew an octopus for him today, and he calls it an "octagonpus."  Tee hee!

He knows all of his colors and lots of the Crayola colors, too: yellow-green, red-violet, blue-green.  We drove by Seattle's Pink Elephant car wash yesterday, and after considering it, he said, "Red-violet elephant." 

Jonah is mostly delightful with big chunks of especially-two-ness thrown in, and it's so much fun to see his personality emerging!