More and more words

Petey has acquired a good little vocabulary over the past few days at Auntie Ernie's house in Illinois.  Here is his complete lexicon:

Car ("cah")
Ball ("baw")
Bo Bo (Ernie's cat's nickname)
Da Da (he sure misses his daddy!)
Choo Choo (for trains)
Shoe

We're still gathering evidence on whether "again" and "mama" are truly being said.  He also loves to make a "vroom" noise when he runs his cars along the floor, and he does a hilarious little imitation of "a-choo" because he thinks sneezing is the funniest thing in the world. He may be saying more words, but it's pretty hard to shout over his sister and cousin.  Those are two girls who like to hear themselves speak and sing.  As I type this, we're listening to Charlotte spew a stream of discipline at the trains she's playing with, and we're cracking up as we identify all of the phrases I have repeated a million times (like "No!  I said NO!").

We had to amend our plans and put off continuing on to Michigan for a couple of days when an icky stomach virus struck Charlotte and me, but we hope that we're well enough to make the drive tomorrow.  Cross your fingers and hope Peter doesn't come down with it too.