Who Is This Talkative Child? "Guyshzh, guyshzh"

Over the last week and a half, Ivan has been making such a tremendous progress in learning to speak that it's simply astounding.

Every new day, well actually every time he wakes up from a nap, he seems to be pronouncing new words. He's moved beyond first syllable pronounciation into pronouncing the entire word. So "mo" has become "moon." Meso is meat. He repeated quiche after me on Monday. Nothing else comes to mind right now but I'm literally floored every day by his vocabulary.

I went away for a night over the weekend to see Lucy in Philly. I didn't see him in some 24 hours--from Saturday afternoon until Sunday afternoon. I was shocked how many new words and full word pronounciation he had picked up in that time period.

Granted, the new words he's been using tend to be in English. He must have picked them up in daycare (and frankly half the time English words are easier and shorter to pronounce than the Croatian ones).

He's also started to say "guyshzh, guyshzh" when he wants to say something to us. It's really cute, especially since he adds the "sh" sound to "guys."

Even Ms. Azi in daycare commented yesterday that he's really beginning to speak.

Two weekends ago I made mini muffins. He went crazy over them, standing by the stove, yelling "ma, ma" for muffins when he wanted more. I wonder if I make muffins again this weekend whether he'll be able to say "muffin."