Vo-ka-BU-larry

The babe is getting older...and bigger... and more talkative.

This week, I was talking emphatically.

He stood next to me and imitated my tone and hand motion exactly.

Sigh.

A few weeks ago, I was lamenting his 'lack' of vocabulary.  Then I started listing his words.  They're not pronounced perfectly, but still.  We got a decent list down, and then... it was like he knew I was counting!  Because it just exploded.  He can mimic almost any word (when he feels like it) but here's his most consistently used palabras:

Hi

Bye

Mama 

Mooooommmmm

Dada

Bruh-bruh (brother)

Nana

Pop

Gran-ma

Kah-DEN (Kaden)

Yesh.

Go.

GO, GO, GO, GO!!

Peas (please)

Piz (peace) (at Mass)

Uh oh.

Done.

More

TA- DA !

Letting Go

There are a hundred posts I could write from the last 6 months... the gap in posting is actually helping me figure out what, exactly, I want to write- and why I have the blog.  It started as a family thing, morphed into a semi-official record, then a sporadic venture into figuring out this parenting thing, and then... lapsed.

And now- file this under the Explore-Parenting tag- in the past few days, I've run across a few articles with the same theme:

Raising Kids to be Rule Breakers

The Alternative to Controlling your Child

I will NOT obey


Guess God is telling me to lighten up ;)

PS-  Cub is a year and a half, and then some, if you're counting.  If we're not connected on Facebook, let me know and I'll be sure you can see his curly adorableness!