My little talker

My little Laner has not been much of a talker... up until now. Lane has spent the past 22 months focusing on learning to do everything but talk. He loves to do puzzles, read books, "help" me do things around the house, he is especially good at throwing things away for me and picking out his shoes and socks on a daily basis. He likes to throw and kick a ball, go up and down the stairs, and drink out of a regular cup after he helps himself to water out of the refrigerator door. And most of all, his favorite thing to do is figure out how to get into, on top of, or around the things that Mommy and Daddy ask him not to.

And now, the past couple of weeks he has been saying all kinds of things that take me by surprise. Last week he walked up to the quilt hanging on his wall, pointed to a star and said star without any prompting. He then spent the rest of the day pointing out other stars he saw around the house. Then, another day he did the same thing with circles. Today as we were getting ready to go downstairs for lunch he actually said "pick up" and started picking up his toys! I mean seriously, I say it every day, but I never thought he would say it when I didn't!

This morning when I got Lanes clothes out of his closet he took his shirt to check it out. It's a new one so he really looked it over good. Once we had it on I noticed that he kept looking at the little bear on the pocket. When I asked him about it he said Bella, my Sister's yorkie. She is brown and little and cute so I can see how he might think the cute little bear looks like Bella. Clint got a video of Lane saying Bella, which is by far the funniest thing he says. The video is a little repetitious, but it's too cute to cut down.