"Scha" and other words

So, it finally happened today.

"Shit" I said quietly under my breath when I dropped a part of his milk bottle on the floor.

"Scha," a little soft voice promptly echoed back.

I didn't think he could hear me, but he was standing right next to me waiting for hs meme.

I've been preparing us for this moment ever since I got pregnant. Some people have a sailor's mouth. Andy has a "driver's mouth." I'm a tad better Even thought I've been on this clean up project for over two years now, I really hadn't made much progress Now we'll really have to be careful.

I was beginning to expect it any day now. Ivan has gotten so chatty in the last week or so. He's level of babbling and rate with which he's been picking up new words has really increased. He's also been repeating things after us more.

In the last few days, I've realized he knows to say and use "open," "top," "more," (his new favorite word), "book," "apple," "noz" etc. He just omits the last syllable so he ends up saying "op," "to" "mo", "bo," "app," "no."

He also attempts to pronounce "hummus."
He also knows the words "pumpkin" and "penguin." My mom realized he knows those two words and it shocked her.

We have a little knitted penguin ornament hanging off the fireplace mantle. And as far as pumpkins go, I don't think Ivan has seen a pumpkin since Halloween. There is a photo of him and Andy carving a pumpkin that's on our calendar. My mom and Ivan were looking through it when he started saying "punkin" She was floored. The same thing for the penguin. He started pointing to it "pinkin."

Two rather unusual words to learn.

But then again the first two hard words he learned were "ticic" for "pticica" last summer and "tute" for "turtle" back in the fall.