warming up his vocalizer

a few weeks ago ethan learned to say his real official first word. NO. he has a few other sort of words in his repetoir but he doesn't know to use them, only repeats them when we tell him to. but not NO, this is knows how to use and does so often. i told rich that he would only be cute saying it for a few days and then we would wish him mute again, it is kind of fun to finally hear his little voice, so cute. the last few days he's added to his vocabulary with "doughy" - which means dory from finding nemo and "ayee" - allie, his sister and favorite person (although i noticed yesterday he was finally starting to get the 'l' sound there in the middle, and yesterday he finally perfected, "nemo" which is great. three words. yesterday while we were walking around toys r us he was practicing and i got some of it on video, mostly for fun. i've never done a video before, so here goes nothing...

the second video is of ethan doing the nemo, dory thing, plus is looks like i shut the video off about five seconds too soon, we maybe would've gotten some good tantrum material there!

**did your toddler take forever to talk?**