Tate Talks!

I've written before about how little Tate talks. He's still pretty far behind a typical 28 month old, but he has really started to add new words to his vocabulary. He is still only saying one word at a time, and he doesn't say his name either, but nonetheless we're excited about the progress he's making. Although we're still waiting for him to use action words and words that express his feelings, he does a good job of telling us what he needs and wants. He is still making up words, which can make it difficult to figure out what he's trying to tell us, but overall we're excited to finally see him making progress. He's been saying basic words like ball, brother, boat, hat, fire and hot for awhile now. By far his favorite word is "eat." The child eats me out of house and home! We're really hoping that he continues to make steady progress because his increased vocabulary has really cut down on the number of temper tantrums he throws and helped him to not be so moody, frustrated and whiny.

His new words are:
Pizza
Trash
Tractor
Sticker
Tigger (his favorite show right now is My Friends Tigger and Pooh)
Key
Cheese
Juice
Scissors
Eye

Some of his made-up words are:
Gig-e-ya: we still don't know what this is
Guy-ya: represents anything liquid or the color blue. For example: water, juice, milk, rain, lake, river, etc.
Ga: Pap
Bab-O: Baby or Babies (specifically the twins)
Bee-boo: Binky
Bay-boo: Bottle
Gi-Gi: Basement