Petey has maintained a strict code of silence since birth. He has made many a cute noise, but he has been much later at speaking actual words than his verbose older sister. (As far as I can recall, she came out of the womb speaking in paragraphs and arguing about exactly why I shouldn't make her eat her dinner. I could be wrong though. I'm always annoyed when my mom can't remember details of my early childhood from over 30 years ago and here I am unable to recall less than 3 years ago. I should probably stop giving Mom such a hard time about her "momnesia".)
Anyway, Petey has been saying "BUH-BUH!" whenever he picks up one of his beloved plush creatures, and he does a good "uh-oh!" after (and sometimes before) he throws a toy. But as of yesterday morning, he has started reliably saying "CAH!" every time he sees some sort of vehicle. We are choosing to interpret that as "car" and are declaring it his first word. Considering his father's deep love of the automobile, I guess it's only fitting. Petey is also going to get along swimmingly with his cousin, Quinn, whose first word was "truck".
The best part about this new word is that he often says it a dozen times or more in a row as he practices his new skill. He also makes "vrooming" noises when he runs his cars along the ground. Charlotte is thrilled with Petey's new word and keeps bringing him cars to get him to say it. As I type this, they are vrooming cars together off into the sunset. Well, off into the bonus room anyway. Uh oh -- now I hear shrieking about Petey knocking over some of Charlotte's "aminals". Sigh. It was nice while it lasted.
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Yeah! Peter!! nanaB
Hmmmm- just as Charlotte always repeated the word dog (dog-dog) when she first started talking, Peter also says car-car, never just once. Nature? Nurture? Only interesting to word geeks like me? :)
Now he just needs to add. " daddy give the keys to the..."
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