A few animals are still getting gestures. For example, when he sees a raccoon, he'll put his fingers up in circles around his eyes. And some animals are still getting sound effects. For example, a pig gets a deep, gravely grunt; and a rooster gets a very loud, shrill crow.
But the words are flying off his tongue!
Cow comes out exactly as it should, although he tends to drag out the "o" a little bit, so it's more like, "coooow."
For a turtle, he switches to Greek and says, "hey-lone," which is very close to "χελώνα."
A monkey comes out as "mucky." I guess he thinks they're dirty.
Whenever he wants some milk, he runs around the kitchen, yelling, "malk, malk!"
Several people in our neighborhood still have pumpkins out from November. I took him for a walk one day, and he ran up to them, touching each one, saying, "pupkin, pupkin, pupkin..."
He can recognize a sloth in his books now, but he says it, "slouth," like "mouth."
Whenever I'm changing his diapers now, Troy will reach up and start pinching my elbow. He feels it out; the shape, the size, the hardness. And he repeats, "ah-bow, ah-bow, ah-bow..."
He can now tell the difference between a deer and a moose. We know because he started bringing us his stuffed moose and saying, "moosh."
He picked up a wooden star the other day that my wife had pulled out of the closet. He showed it to her and said, "tar!"
He has become increasingly obsessed with dinosaurs. I guess they had some little plastic ones at the daycare, so he's intrigued with these strange animals. So, now he runs around the house, saying, "dino, dino, dino!" Which usually means that he wants us to put on Ice Age or Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous for him to watch.
And there are a whole list of words that come out perfectly: door, egg, gone, goat, hat, cold, hot, bus, coat, eat, and down.
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