Explosion

Not Joshua's diaper this time. I am talking about his vocabulary. It seems in just the past few weeks, his language skills have grown exponentially. It is not just adding words to his vocabulary, but it is actually formulating thoughts and short sentences. We have always been impressed with how many words he knew at 18 months, but now it is more than just pointing to different objects and hearing Joshua name the object in his oh-so cute way. There are verbs and progressive verbs, adjectives too. The new progressive verb "pooping". Yes, Joshua likes to tell us when he is pooping. Great for potty training. If only it was always true. He will say "pooping" and we will run him to the potty and absolutely nothing happens. Then other times he will say "pooping all done". Darn, we missed it. He picked up an object today and said "heavy". Then, later in the day, he wripped some toilet paper and said "broke it". He is also picking up on music. He sings "E I E I O" with "Old McDonald". When he hears, "If you're happy and you know it..." he follows along with the instructions. I guess now we really need to watch what we say in front of him, because he is definitely able to pick up new words and concepts quickly.