Nathan has started remembering songs and dances that he learns at daycare. We were listening to the Wiggles the other night and when “Rock-a-Bye Your Bear” came on, Nathan started doing a little dance to the song. He clapped when it said everybody clap, he turned around when it said to turn around, he even rocked his bear once and tried to sh! sh! sh! to me like it does at the end. We had fun listening to the song a few times and dancing to it.

Last night he did it again when the song “Five Little Monkey’s Jumping on a Bed” was on. When one fell off and bumped his head, Nathan was patting his head. He was playing with a toy at the time, so it was almost like an automatic response when he heard the song.

He’s also been repeating “ashes ashes” over and over a lot. We weren’t sure what he was trying to say, and at first it sounded like “asher asher”. Finally it dawned on me that maybe it was from “Ring around the Rosey”, so I asked at daycare and found out that they sing that song with the kids. Now we sing it at home and Nathan sings “ashes ashes” with me at the end.

So I guess we’ve reached this new milestone where Nathan is clearly absorbing and remembering things and then able to go beyond just understanding and repeat what he learned. I thought it was cool when Gary pointed to a dog in a book and asked Nathan what it was, and instead of saying dog, Nathan barked. It was the first time I saw him make a leap like that and, as usual, as with all these new things, I got really excited and probably annoyed the crap out of Gary as I repeated over and over for like 5 minutes how cool it was.

Nathan also has a few new words:
Up
Hi
No (sounds like Nnnnno. Used to be more like Nuh)
Thank You

(All words so far: Dog, Duck, Cat, Fish, Daddy, Mama, Ball, Apple, Cracker, Airplane, Hi, Up, No, Thank you, Opa)

He also Meows and makes noises for a chicken now (sounds a little like the duck noise- Qaa Qaa). And I started teaching him to put his hand up under his armpits for a monkey and he’ll do that sometimes when we make monkey noises. Other things are making vroom vroom sounds for cars (he’s been doing that awhile) and he knows how to blow out of his mouth now. We’ll have to break out the bubbles again soon.

Oh! He’s also cutting his 10th tooth! Its the fourth bottom tooth. And I think he’s getting his first bottom molar too.