Bobaday

Also known to most English-speaking folks as basketball. Yep, that is our son's latest word. Bobaday. First he used it specifically for when he saw our neighbors playing basketball and for the hoop. Now that he is so focused on that word, big bird from Sesame street has become bobaday, trucks on the road have become bobaday and I know a few other things were called that but can't remember what they were. As soon as he gets up in the morning he wants to look out the window so he can see the basketball hoops at the neighbors houses. On our street, virtually every other house has one , in one case 3 houses in a row across the street. He likes to point every hoop out that he sees now and like in the past with his ability to spot squirrels from far away, he now can spot basketball hoops in the distance. We'll be driving and I'll hear bobaday!! It is either a truck or he just spotted a basketball hoop.

By the way, Jamie can't say squirrel any longer. It is interesting how he loses some words as he is trying out new ones. We talk about the squirrels just about every day but he says da da now when he tries to say squirrel.

It's been ages since we updated. By the way, with his latest basketball obsession we got him an indoor toddler basketball hoop and ball and he loves it. He can't do it w/o help yet but his throw is actually getting impressive. He really aims and can shoot w/ some force now. I took him downtown to an indoor playspace last week where they have some small plastic balls and some cut outs in wood you can throw them through and he was actually getting many of them in. David bought him a soccer ball and Jamie said sah caw when we asked him to say soccer but he still calls the soccer ball a bobaday. Now every ball is called that. ;-) I'm surprised he isn't calling the cat a bobaday. In fact, he doesn't seem to remember how to say cat anymore which is weird. He is saying da da!

I'll attach a few new pictures. ;-) By the way, we are not trying to potty train Jamie at all yet. He was just interested in us using it so I figured why not put it in there for him to get used to the idea that he'll have one. Well he loves going and sitting on it fully clothed and I caught him sitting on it w/ reading material! We didn't even teach him that one, lol. How funny is that. Jamie had his first trip to Krispy Kreme and it was his first doughnut (so far as we know). We have him on a gluten free diet right now to see what is up w/ his digestive issues so it may be one of his last for a long time to come! You see the picture of him in a canvas tote box and a plastic toy tray box. I came in from doing some things in the kitchen to find him happily playing in these boxes. ;-)