The other day I just happened to say to Wrigglebot, ‘Where is your belly?’ I have never asked him before and he pulled up his top and exposed his very round belly. I was very impressed, both with the enormous belly and the fact that he recognised the word belly. I continued to do some more experiments in an effort to see how many words he could understand. Here are the results: he thinks his belly is also his nose, he knows what it means to walk, he knows the word food and banana and mum and dad and lunch and breakfast and ball and cow. I think it says something about his priorities at this stage in his life that most of his vocabulary is related to food.

He still can’t say many words but he obviously understands, he is like a proverbial sponge at the moment but because he doesn’t say all of the words he knows it is easy to forget that he is listening.  I am now on a mission to make sure the words that he is exposed to are not either swear words or inappropriate words for a little Wrigglebot. (Husband take special note of this.) I guess I just want to shelter him for as long as I can and I think it is easier to watch what he is exposed to rather than discipline him when he uses inappropriate language. It just seems that with each stage he goes through there are exciting developments but with everything there are increased challenges and he is only 15 months he still has a lifetime in front of him!

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baby, mums life by chelle