"car"

or should i say "ca(r)"? because the 'r' is very faint. almost sounds like he has a little southern accent.

now that boden is realizing that he can say real words, he repeats them almost constantly. all day long, he keeps saying 'hi' to me, 'hi' to strangers in the store, 'hi' to the kitty cat in the book....

boden first started saying 'car' earlier this week. the first time i noticed it was after an afternoon nap. whenever we get boden up from sleeping, we go to the window and say "hello outside," "good morning outside" and so on. well, this time as we were standing looking out the window, boden started going "ca(r), ca(r), ca(r)." at first i thought that he was just making a sound and so i started repeating after him. very soon i realized his attention was keenly focused on the cars going past our house. he would look and when he'd see a car/van/suv go past he would say "ca(r)." it has been steadily ramping up all week. sometimes he would hear a loud car going past and he would look up and say "ca(r)" and go look out the window. well, today it has really kicked in. we were out looking for some shoes (again). which by the way, the sales people measured his feet and he indeed has a size 6 shoe. is it me, or does that seem big for a 14 month old? anyway, driving around in the 'car', seeing cars going past on the road, and loads of them lined up in rows in the parking lot he was going 'car' crazy - "car, car, car, car." he would then start trying to say 'hi' to them as well - "hi," "car," "car," "hi," "hi," "car"..... like my mother said, leave it to a boy to have 'car' be one of his very first words. eric and i haven't put any sort of conscience emphasis on it either. :)

ps- of course, we had to pick up a couple tonka cars for him today at target....