Our little monkey, and other interesting noises

Nate has been practising his animal noises. He used to have to see a picture of the animal, but now you can just ask him, "What does a cat say?" and he will mew. He woofs, roars, growls, quacks, ribbits, bleats, neighs and moos. He also makes noises for elephants and pigs, and he mimics a monkey shreaking "EE EE" while touching his pointer fingers to his chest (trying to copy our hand-scratching-armpits motion).

His Thank You is starting to develop, and he says Hi and Bye. Peaking suddenly around a corner, he will say "Buh" for boo.

Our next project is learning body parts. Nicole has helped him learn where his nose is. Now we need to teach him the rest of his body.

Grandma was out for a visit a few weeks ago, and Nate had lots of fun showing her his books. Unfortunately, her visit happened to occur at the same time as a few firsts for us with Nate being sick. He developed his first fever, which resulted in a trip to the walk-in clinic. Antibiotics were prescribed do help with what was thought to be an infection. A few days later, we spend my mom's last night here at the Urgent Care Centre after discovering a rash all over Nate's trunk, front and back. Turns out Roseola was the cause of his whole week's worth of ailments.  He's fully recovered, and back to his normal silly self.

In addition to being a great musician, Nate is also proving to be a wonderful artist (no bias here!). A proper artist needs his own space, so we went out and got Nate his own little table and chair. He quite enjoys using his new furniture, whether it's to create his latest masterpiece or to have an afternoon snack. 

Nate seems to have learned that when someone is struggling to get a lid of off a jar, or similar situation, they make a bit of a grrrr noise. Whenever he sees someone in one of these situations, he will grrr on their behalf.  The other day, he had his dayhome provider in hysterics while he grrred for her as she struggled with some uncooperative bananas!

Soccer Monster

So, I've mentioned that Nate likes the Backyardigans, and he loves to sing and dance with them. Last night he was watching an episode about soccer, and right after Pablo (the penguin) says a rather emphatic "SOCCER", Nate said "GAKKAH" matching Pablo's tone and inflection. If I remember correctly, I believe both hands were clenched and in the air too.  And before you worry that we dump Nate in front of the tv and leave him there, rest assured, we are watching with him....as soon as he knows we have a show on for him, he is crawling up on our laps to share it with us.

A few more updates on the last posting....

In addition to saying "Aaaah" after having a drink, Nate also says "mmmm" after having a bite of food, especially veggies. Peas appear to be his favourite right now (a trend among all of the kids at his dayhome)

Nate continues to give us (and toys and other objects) kisses, and the other day at the dayhome, he ran over to Reese, the dog, and sat down with her on her giant pillowy bed.  Reese started to lick Nate, and Nate leaned over and kissed her on the top of her head. It was very cute.

Nate has learned how to completely dump a bin of toys all at once in order to climb into the bin...much faster than taking them out one by one like he used to do. But now, once the toys are out and he is in, he wants the toys put back in the bin with him so he has something to play with!

I can't remember if I said before, but Nate says "thank you" now. It sounds like "ta du".

Nate isn't just a singer/dancer...he's an all around performer. He knows how to make us laugh, and often does silly things on purpose just for the sake of being silly and getting a laugh. Most recently, he has started to peer around corners at us. I don't mean he walks out from behind a wall or corner and face us....he really does stay behind the wall or corner, lean forward with one knee bent, and poke his head out.

He has also seen me typing on the laptop a bit too much lately, sometimes while he is on my lap, and now he wants to type too.