First words

I've mentioned before that Grant said the word "hungry" at about 10 weeks old consistently...we even have it on video. He's consistently done other things pretty early on such as learning his letters. It looks like we have another milestone for the record..er, baby...book.

This morning, while daddy is off in Tallahassee to go to a football game with big brother D, we did a video chat with the PS3. Grant is pretty shy and overwhelmed with this technology right now but we are hoping he gets used to it so we can chat with D all the time. This morning, his difficulty being comfortable with the video chat led to him throwing his toys outside of his play area. He threw several small toys and an entire stack of alphabet flash cards. So, in an effort to draw him into productive conversation and behavior, I started asking him to tell me what letters were on flash cards as I picked them up. At one point he insisted on holding a flash card. I asked him what letter was on it and he said "Y." He then went on to say what at first sounded like "yellow." However, when I looked at the example picture on the flash card, it was a Yo-yo. Grant says "yellow" as "yhell-yo." Since the yo-yo picture on the card was red, there was no reason for him to be saying the word 'yellow' and I have to assume he was saying the word 'yo-yo.' However, yo-yo is not a word we have taught him or a toy we use with him...we're not living in the 70's after all.

We'll never know if he actually read that word or not...but it would not be shocking since there are only two letters in the word and he knows them both. The Super Why show he likes often teaches phonetics and letter sounds. So, anything is possible.