So, I know I won't remember everything, but I was realizing I've never made a list for myself of some of the stuff Isaac is saying right now. So, here's what my pregnant, overly tired brain can come up with . .
He wakes up first thing in the morning, exclaims a happy "Mama!" when I open his door, then immediately starts to point down the stairs with an enthusiastic 'Ouhsa! Ouhsa!' (Which translates to, "Outside! Now, already! We're wasting time indoors!") The kid loves to be outside. The only thing he possibly loves more is eating, so I can usually distract him with one of his other two favorite things. I can usually snag his attention with 'Ah-psa' -- which started as 'applesauce' . . . the first time he ever used it he was asking for applesauce, but since it has kinda come to mean any and all food.) (It's kind a confusing, and you can't really see it in how I've spelled them out here, but his 'outside' and 'apple/food' words are actually pretty close sounding . . . enough that sometimes I'm not sure which one he's asking for. At that point it's easiest just to feed him a banana out on the back porch.) :-) He also signs and says 'mo' for 'more', as well as signs and says 'cahka' for cracker (or cookie, cereal or hard crunchy things of all varities.) And an occasional 'wa' for a drink of water. So, there's eating that trumps outside usually. There's also nursing. Which he excitedly claps about and squeals "nuh!" He almost never asks to nurse, he just excitedly exclaims it when it's time to nurse (usually first thing in the morning and right at bedtime, sometimes before a nap if I'm feeling like both of us need to curl up in bed and unwind a bit before he goes down), but today he was feeling sick, walked up to me, curled up against me and looked up and asked, "Mama, nuh?"
He tends to call Greg 'Mama', whenever he's asking him for something. Then we'll remind him, "That's Daddy," and he'll laugh and start clapping and repeatedly crying out, "Da da da da," amused by his own mistake. If Greg walks into a room though and Isaac seems him, or if he hears the garage door go up around 4:30 in the afternoon, then he'll happily exclaim, "Dada!" But it's funny how if he's asking for something he automatically goes with 'Mama' to ask to have his needs met. :-) He will also ask for Dad in the mornings. When I bring him into my bedroom to get his diaper changed and nurse, he'll look around and ask, "Da da?" if Greg's still not there. (Greg typically leaves for work around 6:30 . . . Isaac typically wakes up between 6:15-6:40 . . . so Dad's home a lot of the time when he wakes up, but not all of the time. And he definitely notices the mornings Greg is MIA.)
I
think he says 'sissas' for his sisters, but I'm not sure. But I
know he walks around all day calling for Annie with loud hollers of, "Aaah-na!" (The week she started school, he'd walk around the house just mournfully wailing her name. It was sad and adorable at the same time.) He refuses to even attempt to acknowledge Ellie with any kind of title or name, and usually takes a swing at her if she gets too close. They don't quite have the same relationship him and Annie have :-)
He does say "Am-ma" for Grandma, and "Am-pa" for Grandpa.
He says "ba" for several things. Ball. Bear. (His giant stuffed bear is "Ba bar" for Big Bear.) And bath. (These three things are tied for his next favorite things!)
He says "Buh-bowls" for a nearly perfect sounding bubbles. The other day he happily was calling out, "Ba ba ba ba ba!" as I was walking him up the stairs to take a bath. When he suddenly looked up at me and grinned and asked, "Buh-bowls?" I just smiled back and said, "OK Isaac, you can have a bubble bath."
He says "Buh-bye" and waves enthusiastically as people leave. He picks up the phone and holds it up to hear ear (usually facing the wrong way) and chats endlessly, sometimes even beginning his one-sided conversation with the world "heh-o".
"Buh" is for 'bus'. He has a toy school bus he LOVES to play in, but he's also started noticing buses on his shirt, in books or outside that he'll refer to as 'buh' as well.
He says 'dah' for dog and 'woo' for 'woof'. Other animal sounds amuse him, but he rarely if ever will repeat them back to me.
He exclaims, "Whoa!" in a near perfect Keanu Reeves impersonation that could win awards, at nearly every cool thing he sees, or everything he knocks over. He uses the word 'whoa' approximately 100 times a day, at least.
One of my favorite things he's started saying is 'bub, bub, bub' followed by a pause than, 'bat, bat, bat'. This comes from a little game we play when he's cuddling. He curls up on my chest, and I rub his back slowly in circles while I chant, "Rub, rub, rub . . . " then start patting softly, "Pat, pat, pat", then dramatic pause followed by, "Tickle! Tickle! Tickle!" while I lightly run my fingers up and down his back. He loves this little ritual every bit as much as I do, and I love that he asks for it by name now. Today in the bath tub he kept patting his belly and exclaiming, 'bat, bat bat!' He'll also now ask us to sing "Patty Cake" by asking for 'bat bat'.
I'm sure there's a dozen other things he's used here and there, but these seem to be the core of what I can think of him using on a pretty much daily basis. He seems to be speaking so much more than his sisters did at this age (he also walked steadier from a much younger age) -- I'm kinda convinced he knows on one level that he's gonna be the baby for less time than they were, so he's picking up the pace a bit!
