Pointing and Grunting=PBJ?

As we already know, Thaddeus is a pretty funny little guy. Its Christmas break and Callia is at Mom's house so Nathan, Thad, and I were sitting here in the living room eating cereal. Thad decided he didn't want his cereal, and a few minutes later came up to Nathan rubbing his tummy and saying "pweese". Nathan figured he wanted something so he stood up and Thad led him into the kitchen to the cabinet where we keep most of the snacks and canned food. Nathan picked him up so he could point to what he wanted, and Thad tapped the top of the peanut butter jar. So Nathan sat Thad down on the step stool that seems to stay in the middle of the kitchen and picked up the peanut butter and called in to tell me Thad was wanting peanut butter. Thaddeus then pointed at the bread which sits in a bowl on the counter. Haha! He came into the living room with his PBJ on a plate a couple of minutes later with a laughing Daddy trailing behind. Thaddeus set it down on the floor and pointed to it and chirped "duh!" to show me his success in communicating to his father what he wanted. :)

Thad's Words

I thought I'd take a minute to make a list of the words that Thaddeus says. He doesn't really say much and prefers using gestures and voice inflection to his little sounds to get his point across. Actual words that he says, preceded by the way that he pronounces them:

"bah" = bye
"hey" = hey
"mama" = mommy, daddy, auntie, memaw
"djuece" = juice
"koo keh" = cookie
"ka kuh" = cracker
"kah" = car
"mow" = more

He also says animals sounds for a cow "moo", sheep "baa", dog "wuh wuh" (his version of a dog barking), and an in and out "f" sound which he believes is made by a bunny since that is what we taught him :).

He also uses sign language to say cat and please, always with a big proud smile.

He has said other words once or twice without putting them into use and we do not hear them anymore or only did once:

"yaya" = Callia (not anymore)
"mayma" = Memaw (not anymore)
"dada" = daddy (not anymore)
"eeee" = horse neighing (once)
"uh yuh" = I love you (once)

I am trying to teach him more signs and please is a new one that I require him to say in order to get something he wants, just to get him to use some type of language. I don't know if he has more words than I know of and that I just can't understand them, but I doubt it because most of his noises sound like "uh duh" and another one I can't think of right now. He uses various tones that really do say a lot, like he is singing the way he feels. Fits are becoming very frequent as he has more complex thoughts that he cannot express and he gets angry with me for not understanding his gestures and sounds, especially when he wants something specific. I'm trying to figure out how I can learn more signs myself because I really don't know that many relative to how many words I use when I talk to him, and he seems to have less aversion to signing things than saying them.

Pictures

Sho...for anyone who ish intereshted, I have added and backdated a bunch of pictures for July-September.

Busy Man

Thaddeus makes us all laugh when he plays because he seems so serious and purposeful about what he is doing.

He was playing with blocks here yesterday after his nap while Sarah and Julie were over, and was moving them around in the little wagon that they are kept in. There were two blocks missing so two holes, and he was moving blocks from full spaces to empty ones, over and over and over, essentially rearranging them endlessly while we were talking. Eventually Sarah pointed out that although he was doing almost nothing, he felt it was something significant and at one point when the blocks looked no different to us, he clasped his hands in delight and when Sarah congratulated him he bashfully scrunched up his shoulders, covered his face with his clasped hands and grinned!

This type of play is very typical for him and he will, for instance, get tupperware out of the pantry and use it to carry blocks around. He'll put blocks or other items from one container to the next, endlessly rearranging them, and carrying them to different locations in the house, such as from the living room carpet to the bottom step in the foyer and back again on various trays and in buckets. Every little movement is so purposeful and his face is so dead panned serious. He will not be interrupted except to be congratulated and sometimes not even them. If I try to talk to him he just brushes past as if he's too busy for such things.

What a funny silly little guy. I think he is absolutely delightful.

Not Again

Callia is still not feeling great about pictures.

Silliness

"Bunnybear"

He's almost good enough to eat.