Lion, Tigers and ...Penguins...oh my!!

For the time being, Dax doesn't say a whole lot that makes sense---but we'll get to that. Even though he may not have an overwhelming vocabulary, he's always been really really good at portraying what he wants and what he's trying to say. It's so funny to see the way his little imagination works and what he comes up with to show us what he means. His imitations are by far the most creative when it comes to animals. I had to capture some of my favorites....

Fish Face
Lions, Tigers, Bears, Monsters...anything that goes " roaaaaaaaar!"

Elephant

The verdict's still out on this one...I don't know? A Stinkbug? He always demonstrates when we're going through the animals so it must be something

And my person favorite---the penguin. Dax loves looking at the cover of his DVD's. He doesn't do so much looking anymore as he does taking the DVD out of the box, opening the DVD player, putting in the DVD and bringing me the remote (this guy is smart!), but oh well. One day he was doing something so funny and I was laughing at him and asking what on earth that was. He brought me the Madagascar DVD and pointed at the penguins at the bottom, and this is clearly what he was imitating

It makes me laugh every time he is being creative and funny. I'm thinking this may not be the case for too much longer. Remember how I said he didn't say a whole lot that made sense? He has a small vocabulary of about 20 words I would say. The last few days have been a total transformation. He has been busting out with new word after new word that he has never said before taking me by complete surprise. They say kids start talking over night, but I really didn't imagine hearing 4 or 5 new words a day! It's amazing. I've been writing them down after he said 3 or so because I knew this was the start of something. These our are last few days in a nutshell, plus Dax's new words...

Mom and Dax and the supermarket (don't make fun that I call it a supermarket and not a grocery store). Dax: "I wanna walk" How can you NOT get him out of the cart when he actually says the word "walk"? Note to self: Next time Dax asks to walk in the supermarket, nicely say no thank you. 1st new word

Mom making eggs for breakfast. Dax: "An egg" 2nd new word

Dax coming down the hall with a soccer ball. Dax "I kicking....mummble mummble mummble...ball" 3rd new word

Mom reading Dax a Little Critters book. Dax "A mouse" 4th new word

Mom cooking dinner while listening to the radio. Dax coming over to me with his hands up "Dance" 5th new word

Mom taking Dax to bed telling him to say Bye to his toys. Dax: "Ni-night" 6th new word

Dax coming to get my hand to go "see". Then he says "vroooooom, wall" and proceeds to drive his car on the wall. (Note to Dax: Congrats on the new word bud, but let's not drive our cars on the wall) 7th new word

Dax trying to get into a hutch where I keep some dishes. The door wasn't opening so great so what does he do any say? "Knock knock" 8th new word

Learning how to can salsa at a friends house while holding Dax who is eating a chip and trying to stay focused and in deep conversation about how to "blanch" a tomato. No, Dax didn't say blanch (that's my new word), he says "neck" when he breaks the chip into my neck and laughs. Nice. 9th new word

I can hear the chatter box coming down the hall......why is it so much fun when they start talking? Just kidding! I love it and I know if will be a whole new world from here on out.