Talka talka talka

Little brother has discovered his vocal chords. Specifically that they can make lots of different words that he can use to communicate. He hasnt learned to put them to together yet, but they come out firing out, determined single words sentences. All ending with an -a.

He might say:
'Mumma. Willa. A-saur. Turn. (Shaking his head).'
Transl. :
'Mum, Will is not letting me have a turn with the dinosaur.'

Or:
'Mumma. Juica. Wada (Shaking his head).'
'Mum, I want a juice, NOT a water.

During the summer holidays he renamed his visiting cousin hordes, christening them with the-a. Hannah, Ella, Fletcha, Charl-a, Georgia and Julia came off alright, but Wog (Robbie) and Apgar (Alex) didn't do so well. They just might stick.

He is so enjoying being able to communicate, and he even cracked his first joke the other day. His big brother has been watching a bit of The Muppet Show and had been singing that classic skit -'Mana mana, Do do do do do'. Little brother and I were sitting at the breakfast table and he pointed at the melon I was eating. 'Its melon' I told him. 'Mana' he said, 'Mana.' Then he got a little curious thinking expression on his face and started singing 'Do do do do'.
It may have been a 'you had to be there' joke, and not great over the ethernet, but we both cracked up.

He also loves to sing in the car. Another milestone of language development was reached coming into Piopio last weekend when after 150 kms of E-I-E-I-E-I-E-I, he finally hit the -O.