Although Mandy assures me that this is normal at this stage of development, I must admit to being thrilled to pieces: Thomas is repeating vowels sounds.
It started yesterday morning before work when he very distinctly looked at me and made the noise "bay". What made that exciting was that I had just said "baby" (as in, "Baby Thomas"). I then proceeded to say "baby" again about five hundred times, but to no avail: his beautiful syllable was not repeated. As I walked to work I was left to wonder whether this was just a beautiful coincidence or whether he had actually repeated something that I said.
This morning I received a sign that it might be the latter when, after saying "yogurt" as I gave him a taste of some of the same (not much, don't worry), he repeated back "oh-er". Once again my many repetitions of the word failed to elicit any response that even a proud dad could interpret as genuine repetition.
This evening, however, I received the confirmation that I was so desperately looking for when I tried the "baby" trick again. This time after a brief pause he repeated back "aa-phhh". I tried saying "baby" a few more times and almost every time he would repeat vowel sounds back that roughly resembled the original word. Following is a sample of our "conversation":
Me: "baby"
Thomas: "eh-eee"
Me: "baby"
Thomas: "uh-phee"
Me: "baby"
Thomas: "buh-eee"
Me: "baby"
Thomas: "ph-vee"
You get the picture.
P.S. Work on the kitchen has been stalled because the next stage (putting up drywall) requires four people and the contractor will only be able to pull a team together this Thursday. In addition, the windows that we're having installed won't arrive until the beginning of October. Needless to say we're both going a bit mad since there's only so much that you can do with a microwave. That being said, what they've done so far looks amazing and the end result will be a dramatic improvement over the original.
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