22 month update

"Aaaaaaaah" means "ambulance."

He can say the L in "blue" and "plate" and "black" now. Like Uma before him, he sometimes gets confused about where the L goes, so throws in an extra one or two just to be sure, like in "vlaseline."

Kieran's favorite books: "Go Dog. Go!" "Trucks: Whiz Zoom Rumble," "My Truck is Stuck!"

He sings along to some songs: baa baa black sheep, abc, twinkle twinkle, some music class songs.

Kieran likes to crawl along the floor meowing.

When one of us is in with him and he hears Uma upset, he'll express concern, even occasionally sending us out to check on her.

He is getting quite good at "no," but not in a terrible twos kind of way (yet). He has either a clear, plaintive "noooo..." or a clipped, emphatic "no."

When we leave, Kieran utters a clear, high-pitched "bye." Over and over, until we're gone.

Kieran's been counting one and two for a while. This morning, I gave him a new angle: three. He repeated it. I repeated it. Then he said "four." I repeated it back. He said "five." He got all the way up to ten this way, though he skipped seven and possibly nine. Still, that's close to counting to ten, much earlier than I expected. Well, I don't think he's counting so much as remembering a sequence of words, but it's a start.