Evan has started to speak two-syllable words and learning new ones almost as soon as he hears them the first time. Today at Oakland zoo, he surprised us a bit by repeating several new words he heard almost immediately. First there's luo-tor (camel in chinese) - he had heard us say it many times in the past but today was the first time he said it himself. Then when we saw the baboons, I didn't think he would be able to repeat it, especially not rightaway. But when I said the word, he also said it just a few seconds later. He also said a few other new words. He's picking them up really fast now and seem to be interested in multi-syllable words, nice! He's also eating better than before, especially when we go to Sweet Tomatoes, a salad buffet restaurant. We bought a few sets of toddler plates/bowls/cups/spoons/forks this week for Evan and he's been very happy using them. He is also started to drink from a regular cup (no straws) with both hands. He doesn't have great control over the cups yet so he spills a lot of it onto his shirts, but he's definitely improving with every use. He's doing better with the spoon and getting stuff out of a bowl as well. The daycare is finally letting him use the spoon to feed himself a bit and he's really enjoying the freedom to feed himself.
Evan can now follow along 4 songs: 1) Row row, row your boat, 2) Old McDonalds had a farm, 3) Twinkle Twinkle little star, and 4) Itsy bitsy spider. By follow along, I mean that he would say the last word of each line of rhyme. So for example, he would say "star" when we say "twinkle twinkle little...", and then "are" when we say "how I wonder what you .... " Or when we say "row row row your boat gentle down the ...", he would add "stream". It's very cute and shows he's paying close attention to whatever is being said to and around him :)
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