Words, Words, Words

Dean has not always been the biggest talker. He has been on the early side for all his physical milestones, but I feel like we've been waiting forever for WORDS! A couple of weeks ago he started to say "ball" (well ba, but it was definitely ball) and everything was ball, so that was pretty exciting. Then this weekend we had a minor word explosion. We have an owl decoration for halloween and he asked "what's that" so I said "owl" and so did he! Then my parents came to visit & brought a green apple and D said "ba" and I said "apple" and SO DID HE! Clear as day! (Now all of his little green balls are "apple" but that's OK) He will also say some other things like "hippo" and something like "alligator" when we are looking at the animals around his changing table, but they don't "stick". Regardless, I'm thrilled!