New words every day and other updates...

I am stunned with how many words Caleb is coming up with every day now. Most recently, he has put two words together: "Mama there" in response to "Where's Mama?" He also says "snowman", "rain", "go", "monkey", "more", "baby", "cracker", "door", "oval", "piece","heart", "oh boy!" and recognizes that the letter "B" is "B". He says "oh boy" anytime his is excited...it's the cutest thing ever! He looooooooves to say "bye byeeeeee" to anyone he can say it to. He is scared to death of alligators and/or crocodiles thanks to this pop up book we have where the alligator's mouth pops out...he used to think it was funny, but now he is SCARED TO DEATH of that alligator...and anytime he sees another one in another book he freaks out. We've tried to assure him that there's nothing to be scared of, but to no avail. I hope it's just a phase that he'll grow out of. He recognizes shapes and animal sounds...although he likes to tell us that a cat says "hi" instead of "meow", which he used to say. Too funny! He loves to "help" me sweep the kitchen with the broom--I need to get him a kid-sized broom because he's dangerous with that thing!! He loves anything on TV where they are singing....whenever the singing stops, he gets very agitated and signs and screeches "MORE MORE"!!! If they're not singing, he's not interested. He likes to dance to peppy songs, like "The Rainbow Song" that we first heard at story time last year...it's quite catchy! He is doing better in the nursery at church...I can't believe he's in the last room on the "baby" side...when he gets closer to 2, he'll be moved to the toddler side, boo hoo boo hoo! He loves sliding down slides, running around like a crazy man, and playing with his cars and trains. He loves his books and puzzles...it's so cute when he works a puzzle--he'll pretend to not know where the piece goes and he'll say "nooooooo......" and then he'll put it in the right spot and grin so big. Speaking of grinning, he has this hilarious cheesy grin he'll do when we take a pic of him these days.

I can't believe how big he's getting. He'll be 2 before we know it!!