The Babbling of Bryce

Bryce is growing up so fast - it brings tears to my eyes but he is so fun that it's worth it. He is totally walking now - no crawling anymore! He is almost running, but gets going too fast and he face plants, which luckily is funny to him or else we'd be having a lot of tearfests in our house. He is also talking like crazy! It's nice because he can communicate with us and I think it helps his frustration issues. Rix didn't talk very much at this age because he was just being weaned from the pacifier, but Bryce never took the pacifier, so there isn't much left to do with his mouth except talk and scream (which he does a lot of). I'm not very good at teaching my kids sign language - I'm not consistent enough. In fact, Rix learned "more" and "please" in sign language from watching Hayden two summers ago! (Thanks Hayden!) Anyway, I think it is good that Bryce doesn't know sign language because he is forced to speak. Here are the words he knows:

*Ball (he loves the throw them and gets excited when he sees one, and he will call for it)
*"Set, GO!" as in Ready, Set, Go - we will say "Ready" and he will say the rest
*More - which is self-explanatory, but he also uses it if he wants something nonedible, like when we were in Target yesterday and he dropped my keys out of the shopping cart, he said "More?"
*Please - which we only hear ever so often
*Blankie
*Sippy - which is anything he can drink out of, like a cup, sippy, straw, whatever
*No. This one I love (sarcasm intended). It is actually really funny, because last Sunday a lady in our ward that was sitting behind us reached out to take him and he yelled NO! and shook his head vigorously. I felt bad for her, but his reaction was funny. And I hear no when he doesn't want to eat something or give me a kiss or whatever.
*Vroom Vroom - means car and it is also the sound he makes when playing with cars
*BOO! He does this when he hides behind his blanket and then surprises us or when I'm in the shower and he appears from behind the curtain. It's really cute - I mean, scary.

That's all I can think of, but it's lots of fun. He copies us a lot, and will say things like night-night or hot dog or milk if we say it, but he doesn't use it all the time. Anyway, he is only my baby for three more months, so I'm going to milk it for all it's worth, even if I do force him to snuggle with me at night (or I go in after he's been asleep for a few hours so get some snuggle time!!!).