Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Ivan's verbal progress

I haven't been as good in charting Ivan's increasing language skills, but here's an update. Here are more words that Ivan actively uses:

Vse: Russian for "all" or "that's enough". When I got back from San Francisco, it was so funny to watch him constantly say the word as he walked round and round the dining room table.
Nuts (last night)
Cook
Mo-ki: mokeri ("wet" in Russian)
Ca (yet another use): call, as in the phone is ringing.

He's really good with "s" words:
See: at his birthday party, Ivan used this word whenever I take a photo of him because he knows he can see the photo on the camera.
Saam: Syam ("myself" in Russian, as in "I can do this myself.")
Sit
Soku: sok ("juice" in Russian)
Sok: Sirok, a Russian cheesecake-like candy

Two+ word phrases:
[Mama/Papa/book] dere: XXX there
Look at this

And just last night:
Tata peet: [Nikita] spet ("sleep" in Russian)
Nya-nya pukhil: [Vanya] puknil ("farted" in Russian)

He still makes the tasting noise, however, whenever he wants to nurse!