Kevin said it best the other day, “We’ve reached new ground and will never turn back, will we?” For almost 2 1/2 years, Ricky only used a handful of words, now he talks pretty much non-stop for us. He still goes mute around other people, so the WHOLE world hasn’t changed for us! Today he got to play with a bunch of kids while I did some Relief Society things and when we went to leave, I told him to say “thank you” to the hostess. If you read his lips and were really close you might have caught his “ae you.” A couple of days ago, Ricky and I stopped at Uncle Tony’s shop to say hello and as we parked Ricky said, “Cony’s house,” but as soon as we walked into the shop, nothing.
“Kitty” is still one of his favorite words (and things to play with), but finally cats “meow” rather than say “nigh nigh.” Ricky even calls his stuffed cats, Max and Penny, by their true names rather than just random sounds. We had Maggie fixed a couple of weeks ago and every chance he gets, he’ll point to her belly and say “owie.” This is also his favorite part of the book “5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed.” Ricky likes to count the monkeys and when they fall off their bed, he is quick to point out their “owies” (thank Poppy for teaching him that–it makes the story/song much more interesting). Ricky’s counting isn’t quite right, but very cute. Everything sounds like “one, one, one, nine.” He enjoys doing the countdown for rocket ships and it sounds the same.
And, one last thought for today, I finished Ricky’s second year video (which was supposed to be done for Christmas–I’m a little late) and he loves to watch this one even more than he likes his first year video. On the video, we caught 1 1/2 year old Ricky pointing to his different body parts and as that part plays, Ricky points to those body parts right along with himself. At other parts, we have Ricky repeating certain words and we usually cannot hear video Ricky saying them because real Ricky is saying them loud and clear. We enjoy watching the video and it is sweet that Ricky enjoys it so much too!