At the coffeeshop with mom and nonnie

Cuteness

At the park

Apple picking at the farm

In addition to picking fruit, Bill and I brought home an apple pie that was so ridiculously delicious that we just ate three pieces. Each.

His first word is cock?

For about a week Xan has been saying k-k-k-k when he sees clocks or clock-like objects like our food scale in the kitchen. Today he started clearly saying cock and it cracks us up. He also sometimes says AHp, with just the faintest hint of a p on the end for "up" and dada for Bill, but both of those are infrequent and are often said at other times too, so it's not totally clear that's what he means by them.

It's getting hard to keep up

He used five signs today that I didn't know he knew: orange, baby, airplane, horse, and fish. Other recent signs - again (at the end of almost every book we read), train (when he sees a train or we cross the tracks near our house), banana (requested at every meal, whether we have them or not), cat, motorcycle, socks, outside, help. Today on the T he was signing about thing he saw in posters. He picked the banana out of a food poster, signed "hat" for the football helmets on players in another, and saw many balls.

Two word phrase!

Today after I thought he was done nursing and had pulled him off he signed, "Nurse please." How could I refuse him after that?