Sesquipedalian

Troy has increased his vocabulary to several new words now. He says the following consistently, along with the occasional other word that we have to question if he actually said it or not.

Any time he sees water (e.g. in a cup, bath tub, pool, puddle, or creek) he says, “more.” We think this is because we would always ask him if he wanted more when we were trying to get him to drink more water.

Any time he sees a picture of or hears the word “penguin,” he will start singing “na, na, na, na-na-na, na” from Happy Feet 2.

Any time he hears the word “turkey,” he will start making the sound of a turkey with his tongue.

Any time he sees a picture of a bee, he says, “beeeeee,” while waving his finger around in an erratic fashion to mimic its flight.

Any time he sees a picture of bubbles, he says, “bubbles” with a lot of enthusiasm and joy.

He will say the word “moon” to mean the actual moon, the sun, a cloud, a star, or a circle. It used to just be the moon, but when he couldn’t describe all of the things he was seeing, he painted with a broader brush.

He will point to his own eye or the eye on one of his stuffed animals and say, “eye.” Sometimes, he will poke us in the eye and say it to make sure we grasped what he was referring to.

He will say, “ball” whenever he picks up the balls from the ball pit or his rubber balls upstairs.

He will say, “ooo ooo” when he sees a picture of a monkey.

The other day, I took him walking outside, and he fell and scraped his knee. After that, he would point at it constantly and say, “boo-boo.”

He still says, “dah,” to mean his dada, a dog, or a duck. Although it sometimes loosely refers to any birds. And it sounds closely like “that” which he says when he wants us to explain something.

Although, he walks around talking to himself all of the time, so we suspect he knows much more than that. He has a whole language of his own that we can’t understand!