Budding sense of humor

Aaron continues to amaze and amuse us. He is learning new words all the time now. We'll just suddenly realize he is saying something new, like "knee" or "neck" or "bib". And colors! Kim noticed him wanting her to name colors when they were out two weeks ago and although he doesn't always get them right, he is definitely learning. He requests his pacifiers by color now. Purple is his favorite, with orange and green close behind. I love to hear him say "purple". It's one of his few 2 syllable words.

He's really noticing letters lately, too. We have this book from the library called "One Bear, One Dog" that has really large letters. One day, he just started pointing to the letters in the words on each page to get us to name them. Since each page starts with the word "One", he picked up on the letter 'O' pretty quick. Now, in the middle of the book, he'll get up off my lap to go to his magnetic letters in the kitchen and he'll look until he finds the 'O' and bring it back.

And I'm loving his sense of humor. Today, he was looking through his lift-the-flaps farm book and on the food page, he pointed to the honey, and when I said "honey", he laughed and gave me a hug. He got up to point at it again and repeated this a dozen times. I don't know where it came from, but it was adorable. I must call him honey and not realize it.

Earlier this week, when my niece Larissa (he calls her LaLa) was over, he was just sitting on the floor with her looking towards his book case and said "babu" and then laughed. Then he seemed to think about it and said "babu" again and laughed some more. It seemed like he was trying to say something specific, something he found funny. Like "belly button" "blueberry". So then Larissa started saying "babu" and laughing back because it was so ridiculous. The rest of the time she was here, they were saying "babu" and cracking up. Now, if you ask him "What does LaLa say?", he'll answer "Babu!"

I also watched him play with his nesting castle blocks today and he made me laugh. There are 10 boxes made to look like a castle that you can stack up, or nest. He will often put a tiny one in the biggest one and then try putting the other bigger ones inside the big one, but they don't fit because the little one is in the way. We correct him and tell him it won't work, trying to explain that they need to go in a certain order. Sometimes he seems to get it. So today, I watched him put the smallest one inside the biggest one and tell himself "No, no, no" (only it sounds like "nyo, nyo, nyo"). So he knows it doesn't go that way, but he doesn't stop himself from doing it. This is the first time I've noticed him saying "no" like that. He's said it a few times here and there, although usually he just shakes his head if he doesn't want something you are offereing. Now he is saying it in more situations.

And a few days ago he made me laugh when I went to get him from his nap. He was sitting in his crib with his pacifier. He usually likes to sit in there for a bit before getting up. Sometimes he'll play with his animals in his crib, or give them to me. The other day, though, he was taking his pacifier and holding it to the heads of his stuffed animals and making a little suck suck sound. That was new. Not only was he offering them his pacifier, he was pretending they were sucking on it.