His first word was...Mama!!! He was on the floor in the sun room, and was pretty upset. He crawled over to me, stood up with the help of the ottoman, looked at me, and said, "Mama", and then calmed himself down. Jim and looked at each other in shock! He's been babbling for a while now, and his first consonant babble was Dadadadadada for sure (as in, not a single ga or other vowel-heavy utterance). We decided only to count it as his first word when he was ascribing meaning to the sounds. It was so great!
Then, this morning, JJ and I were on the floor of his nursery, Jim came to the door and said goodbye, and walked away. Immediately JJ went to the gate (at his door), stood up and looked in the direction Jim walked and said, "Dada?" He stood there for another 30 seconds looking after him without saying anything, then crawled back into the room and started playing again, like nothing had happened. Precious!!
As if that wasn't enough, JJ was hungry this evening, and I said, "Do you want food?" and he did the rough symbol for "more". Now technically he wasn't about to get "more", he was about to get "food", but I'm counting it because we only use it in the context of food.
And then finally when Jim and JJ got home from the basketball game, he started clapping! I guess being around all those applauding fans inspired him!
Tomorrow I am expecting him to have made the coffee and toasted an English muffin (with butter) for me by the time I wake up. Too much?
Also our bright little star was featured in Charlotte Parent magazine. I submitted a picture and it was chosen for their first issue of the New Year! Thanks so Grandaddy's coworker for mentioning it to him--otherwise we would never have known he was in there!
And here are a few cute pictures, because...just because. JJ literally starts smiling as soon as I bring out the camera. He's such a showman!
Cute and smart! He's the whole package!
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