New Words

New words

Ivan’s vocabulary and comprehension are definitely increasing. He battles nonstop. And we’re beginning to understand what he’s saying.

Last week, he learned to say “tutu” for turtle. Why he picked out to learn that word, I don’t now. Turtle is not easy to say, nor is “kornjaca,” its Croatian equivalent. He has a stuffed turtle and turtle lamps, but why he honed in on turtle as opposed to other stuffed menagerie, I don’t know.

But he was really cute about it. As soon as my mom comes in, he rushes to the turtle to show her he knows that word. Two days into knowing turtle, he rushed to Andy one morning (he hadn’t seen him for two days prior due to Andy’s work schedule when he went to work and returned home when Ivan was already a sleep).

He also constantly points to “ab, ab, ab” which stands for bus, and “da” which apparently means a light.

For months now, he’s been pointing “avi, avi, avi” when he hears a plane go by.

He’s also learned that “bi” stands for biljka, or plant.

“Pi, pi” is also piti, or drinking, which is a very important concept to tell us. I’m not sure what hungry is. Maybe “am, am.”

Last week he got fascinated with “moo, moo” which stands for moon. As a result of that he’s been pointing to a moon in all his books.

“Ne, ne” has become “nem” for nema or no more.

And most importantly, he’s now aware of peeing. The other day, while he was in diapers he pointed to himself and told me “pee, pee.” I didn’t think anything of it because how could I really tell that he was peeing in his diapers. But then a few days later, while he was naked taking a bath, he looked at me, said “pee, pee” and then peed. I was really proud of him.

:-)