Words

I was looking at my friend Allie's blog today and reading all of her daughter's words. She has hit the 30 word milestone and she is 7 weeks younger than Allen. This prompted me to look back at my blog to Drew's post when he was 14 months old (2 months younger than Allen) and see where he was. It was about 30 words.
Allen...not so much. Here is a list of Allen's words:
mama
dada
Drew
Maddie (comes out more like...well, it doesn't really sound like it but he knows what he's talking about!!)
Nana
night-night
ball
balloon
cracker
thank you
outside (he said this once, but I had witnesses)
choo choo
bye bye
hi
light
no (and shakes his head)
paci
lovie (again, not really the word but I know what he means when he says whatever he says!)
vacuum (sounds more like bye bye, but he LOVES the vacuum!!)
juice
banana (his FAVORITE food!)

...that's it. And some of those I am probably stretching a little to say that he can say the word! It just goes to show that the second child definitely talks later/less than the first child! Oh well...we're working on making him ask for things and I am doing more signs with him than I did with Drew (primarily because I didn't need to sign with Drew!). I'm sure he'll improve with time! ****Update: Ok - so he can say a lot, it's just not that frequent!

But man...this kid is physical! Allen has started the Little Gym with mommy on Tuesday's while Drew is at school. He loves it! He climbs on everything, hangs from the bar, walks the balance beam (using the hand rails on the sides with no help from mommy), runs, loves to do forward rolls...he's very active and loves it! At home he can climb pretty much anything, including step stools and ladders when we have them out for decorating. He climbs all over the playground and will go down any slide. So far, there is enough fear in him to keep him safe, but I'm not sure how much longer that will last!