Football Sunday

Another relaxing day. It was a football day so the pictures are below of James and his Dada watching football, bundled up in blankets. It was also a cold, rainy day- actually, we saw a bit of snow falling but it didn't stick to the ground. I've been trying to teach James the word "cold" but he seems to really like "hot" much better. Well, he'll learn. We'll step outside in the snow one day and he'll receive that lesson too quickly :)

My camera was charging so I missed James' excitement as we watched football. He ran around the room with his little football, yelling "touchdown!" and then throwing himself down in a tumble, rolling around on the ground. It was pretty funny to watch.



So here's a list of words that James has learned. Okay, this first word is pretty incredible. Its probably not in any almost-two-year old's list but our little James is a genius:

octagon! ("o-gon", in his shapes book)
help (Yay! I've been trying to teach this one for a long time!)
toast
cheese
touchdown
home run
shapes
crayon
walk
outside
milk
mail
obama (pronounced "Omama"- he recognizes Obama on TV!)
R2 (as in R2D2)
star
Grandma (pronounced "Buck-a")
fries
soap

Sorry if there are any repeats in that list. The list is getting so long that I don't remember which words I may have already written down in earlier posts. James is amazing :) I don't know how many words he should be saying at his age (almost TWO!) but I would suspect he's in the normal range. He's making the occasional two-word sentences too.

I almost forgot to write about the most exciting thing James does. He knows parts of the alphabet! Jim has been working with James to get him to repeat the alphabet letters. They'll slowly go through the alphabet, one letter at a time. Jim will say "A", James will repeat, "B", etc all the way to "Z". So now James will randomly say the letters as he's walking around the house. But lately we've caught James saying the alphabet correctly A through about M. Some of the letters aren't exactly right but he seems to have the rhythm right. Jim and I just sat quietly in amazement when we heard it the first time. We didn't want to ruin the moment and say anything, but when he got stuck at M or whatever letter, we were like WOW JAMES! We've now concentrated on the alphabet, especially when we need his attention, like at diaper changes and bathtime, when we don't want him squirming all over. Its working well, obviously!

In yesterday's video you can see and hear that he's working on his numbers and counting too.