Kai's vocabulary, both spoken and signed, has expanded quite a bit since the last update. I'm amazed that when we first showed him the sign for 'apple' he immediately repeated it. Quite impressive, little bear. As you can see below, B & T appear to be his favorite consonants, though he has not yet mastered bat, bet, bit, bot or butt. If someone would like to place a wager on a competition between Kai with a stick and a robot that bites people in the rear, then perhaps he could learn them all in one go.
Update: Kai learned his first word in another language yesterday! Lampa, which means 'jump' in Sanskrit, is a word he's heard a lot because it's used in Lauren's Itsy Bitsy Yoga classes.
Words Kai Speaks (roughly in order)- Dada
- Mama
- Nurse
- Truck
- Up
- Hat
- Banana
- That
- Bees
- Book
- Back
- Bye
- Ball
- Out
- Bath
- Baby
- Toast
- This
- Bob
- David
- Lampa (Sanskrit for "jump")
Words Kai Signs- Nurse/Milk
- All Done
- Up
- Down
- Again
- More
- Yay! (okay, this is just clapping, but I think it counts)
- Bye
- Me
- Rainbow (appears in his bedtime book)
- Water
- Door (Kai invented this one himself - he points to the door and makes a motion like he's twisting the doorknob)
- Eat/Food
- Diaper
- Tickle
- Sleep
- Apple
- Help (just learned today!)
In addition to speaking and signing, Kai gesticulates wildly, dances, bangs things together, and makes multiple vehicle sounds. He appears to have separate sounds for ground-based vs. flying machines. I've been trying to teach him to make a train noise (woo-woo!), but to no avail. I should probably take him to see an actual train with a whistle. Maybe that will do the trick.
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