Chatterbox

Every so often I run into or hear about people with children around the same age as Davy. Sometimes I see or hear about how well their children can talk. "Oh she says at least 50 words already" or, "He will tell me, I love you too when I say I love you to him. " or "He says all done when he is done eating." And then I think about my own little guy.

Every morning we are woken up to the sound of chattering, "Mamamamama Daboo dadoo dadoo dadadadadoo de da No bababababa, (giggle giggle) Yay!" Then comes the sound of him blowing raspberries after awhile and we know he is spitting on things. So far Davy knows a few words:
No
Yeah
Yay
Dada
Mama
Nana
Thank you
Uh oh
Go
Diego (Deego)

So that is what? 10 words total. So the other day I was talking about it with my sister and she looked it up. Turns out that for a 18 month old he is just fine. He has linked at least two words together, and says some words but chatters mostly with a few real words interspersed. Still there are quite a few words we would love him to learn, all done, milk, cracker, I love you, puppy. There are more but those would be nice so that we would know a little more about what he wants at different times.

On Monday I had my birthday, it was nice. We went shopping, watched a movie (Pride and Prejudice) and went over to my parent's house for dinner and cake. It was relaxing. We also got a super wide baby gate. We have very large openings in our home due to a super open floor plan (not exactly a fan of it myself). Anyway we don't really want Davy getting into the kitchen so we have been blocking him off from it with some large boxes that Kevin taped together. Well after discovering that there was a baby gate wide enough to reach from the wall to the cabinets and after Kevin nearly broke some of his toes a few times we finally decided to buy the baby gate. We installed it on my birthday (which I was actually rather excited about). The gate works perfectly and not only does it keep the baby where we want him, but the dogs have not yet tried jumping it as it looks far too tall for them in their estimation. This means we can section off the baby and dogs depending on how we want them to be sectioned. Feeding the baby and don't want the excuse of dogs to lead him to throw food on the ground, gate the dogs out of the kitchen, don't want the dogs in the kitchen when we leave the house, gate them out. Want the dogs to leave the toddler alone when we first get home, gate them in the kitchen. It works great!! Even though it is not one of my presents I still feel happy about it because it has been working so well. I think it will help to make some aspects of seminary easier as well. Yay for gates!