Words

The switch seems to have gone on for Aidan's vocabulary. He's repeating a lot of what we say and giggling a lot when he does.

His personality is coming through now, too. Here's three stories to prove it.

The three of us went for a walk the other evening and we walked by a man who said hi. Erin and I said hi back and Aidan did too, but he was a little too late for the man to notice. A minute later a woman did exactly the same thing except Aidan said hi back to her immediately. And let out the proudest giggle as we went on our way.

Another night, Aidan and I were upstairs reading some books. There's one which we use most nights and Aidan tells me what the pictures are. Theres a picture of a ball then chair then car. As I was asking what the pictures were Aidan picked up an other book, started looking at that and in a bored teenager's voice just said, "ball, chair, car," without looking at the right book. He's getting too smart - and cheeky - for his own good.

And last night we visited some friends. Aidan happily played with a Mr. Potato Head and a toy camera while we sat around chatting. A few minutes went by then Aidan walked up to us all, held the camera up to his eyes and started saying "cheese". He went round the room repeating it until he'd snapped us all.