posted on Sunday, October 09, 2005 8:33 PM
by
tnorris
Milk
Ian is almost two now, but he still doesn't talk. He does understand quite well though. For example he will quickly obey a request from dad like, “Ian would you go into mommy and daddy's room and get the SanDisk brand 256 megabyte compact flash card from the second shelf of daddy's computer armoire?” Well okay, maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but he will happily obey a request like, “Ian would you close the front door?”
He is just now starting to use recognizable words. He'll say “Daddy” and “hot” and “more?” (like Oliver Twist) and “COOKIE!!” among other things. But he, like his older sister Heather, has his own special word for milk, which is “guck.” We try to get him to say “milk” by having him sound out the parts. “Mmmmm ilk. Milk.” He responds “Mmmm guck!” We are also trying to speak Spanish around here and so we will also hand him a cup and say “leche.” We have yet to hear him say, “Llllll guck!” but I'm sure it's coming.
--Thaine