New Communication

Jack is trying so hard to talk right now. We had the sweetest "conversation" the other day. He was in his high chair, and I was trying to feed him some juice. I said, "Juice" and he froze and looked at my mouth. I said it several more times, and each time he studied my mouth, then looked at me and grinned. Then, he started to take a sip, and I said again, "Juice", and he stopped mid-sip and whipped his head over to look at my mouth with a smile on his face. He did that several more times. It was such a sweet moment with him!

He says "mama" and is now trying to say "moon". There is a moon on the wall in his nursery that he is absolutely infacuated with. Every time he gets out of bed, crying or not, he'll look right at the moon and start smiling and cooing at it. Sometimes, so excitedly that he acts like he's been waiting all night to see it. Every time I say, "Where's the moon?", he'll pop his head up and look at it with a huge smile on his face. A couple of times recently he's said, "MUH" when he looks at it. He knows who "Dada" is, but he won't say it yet. It's only fair that he said "mama" first, since James said "dada" first! :)

He also has been copying words more, like "ba ba" for baby. When James won't stop talking, talking back, etc., I wonder why I enjoy hearing Jack learn to talk, but it's just so sweet and still so much fun!