"Yeah?"

Earlier this week I thought maybe Thaddeus was nodding in answer to my questions, so I started asking him extra questions to see if maybe he'd nod. I'd ask things like "You ready to go get Callia from preschool?" and he'd nod. :) So cute! Then a couple of days later he started saying "Yeah?" while he was nodding, I guess because I would ask him a question such as "Do you want more yogurt?" and I would say "Yeah?" as he was nodding. So he started saying "Yeah?" as he was nodding, too, in exactly the same tone as I did. He's so smart!

That's what Nathan said, too. When I told him about it he tested it out, asking Thad a question, and Thad responded appropriately to show Daddy his new trick. Nathan said "Well, maybe he'll talk pretty soon after all"! I thought the same thing. He has been so quiet I thought maybe he'd take a while to talk but maybe he'll just skip the babbling and go straight to talking. For now he mostly "talks" when he is really trying to communicate something. He points and says "duh".

Callia was constantly making noises as she was learning to talk but honestly she still does constantly make noise so I guess it wasn't really an effort to talk, more like just because noise is fun. No joke, she is playing a video game right now and making noises and saying a mix of actual words and nonsense words related to the game just to keep her voice busy. Its funny because at the time I felt like her babbling was part of the process of learning to talk (which for her it may have been), so I figured since Thad was not babbling much he is not bothering to learn to talk. However, it appears his little brain is still absorbing and learning language, just not as loudly! Silly me for thinking he'd go through the same steps as Callia!