The list

Words that Emmett says as best we can think of and in no particular order:

bath, pasta, pizza, milk, shoe, on, off, bike, heart, pancake, cat, water, crayon, book, Elmo, Big Bird, purple, jellyfish, airplane, jet, helicopter, blimp, cup, Blah Blah, dad, mom, Belinda, park, John, Luisa, Hannah, Lesley, Laura, Jeff, Sal, up, in, please, Malcolm, duck, squirrel, hat, sweatshirt, grandma, grandpa, cup, clock, train, bowl, poop, flush, all done, light, grass, juice, apple, nose, alligator, turtle, grape, berries, banana, cheese, hi, bye bye, carousel, high, cloud, moon, grass, Augie, Anne, purple, flower, walk, owl, fish, shovel, bucket, swing, slide, fire truck, garbage truck, truck, bus, tractor, cat, eye, ear, horse, mouth, arm, elbow, diaper, and kiss.

There are probably others, but this was what we could think of. A couple of note: water and Malcolm, surprisingly are heterographs (I was going to use the word homonym here, but just learned that that homonyms are spelled the same and sound the same whereas heterographs just sound the same...you learn something everyday) and are pronounced "AYE-yah". Though this seems confusing, when used the situation makes it clear which is meant. In compiling this list, Andrea and I tried to get Emmett to say the two after one another (e.g. Malcolm's water...he can say things like dad's shoes or mom's hat, so this shouldn't be a stretch), but couldn't distinguish a difference between the two.

Andrea just walked by and said Emmett should have 200 words at this point. This post has turned into one about Emmett's shortcomings.

We met Anne, Augie, and Alex at the Academy today (I just wore out my shift-A with that line). It is pretty neat how Augie and Emmett get excited to see one another now and actually play together. I think we are inching away from parallel play.

We are struggling through the hassles of raising a child in a shared building. Emmett continues to wake at 5am each day and the woman who sleeps directly below him is not happy about it one bit. We let him whine for a while this morning hoping he would go back to sleep, but no luck. It is not comforting to think that if this isn't corrected, in a week's time when we go to Daylight Savings, Emmett will be waking at 4. I hope we cure this soon.

Good news is that we went back to cloth diapers again and everything seems to be fine. I am pretty convinced now that it was some sort of bacteria or yeast that got into the thicker diapers that he uses at night. I sanitized them all by boiling and am hoping we are past all of that. Emmett has taken to telling me that he has to poop, pooping, and then telling me he has pooped. I am hoping that we can get the potty thing down pretty soon. We offer the potty but he hasn't gone for it with full gusto yet although he will sit on it and read books for a while.