Colors

Colors are Zach's newest accomplishment; he can now name most of the primary colors about 85% of the time. He often mixes up red and pink, a tough distinction. :) But his latest adventure in colors was... coloring on the wall. I'm not sure how well you can see it in this picture (he's pointing at the evidence), but trust me, there were some nice green crayon lines drawn all over our yellow kitchen wall, right at Zach level. Apparently he knows how well green and yellow go together...

Good thing we're moving!

Zach also continues to surprise me with how well he remembers people, and makes connections between people and his memories. Today, for example, when I asked if he wanted to go to the mall (rainy day, too much toddler energy), his response was: Grandma? He hasn't forgotten how much Grandma W likes to shop! If you mention our friend Ben, he starts rattling off members of Ben's family, starting with Otto (the dog comes first), then Brady, and then Isak; Kirsten is clearly too hard to say! And after he spent some time last weekend with his cousins Chase and Sophie ("Dase" and "Yo-fee"), he's now asking for them as often as "Man-nee" and "Bin-nee", who he hasn't seen now in week or so. And at random times, he'll just ask "Grandpa?" Grandpa is also a favorite when it comes to playing with his various phone toys - that's who he always wants to call.

With cousins Chase and Sophie

Today at the post office, the woman in line behind us told the guy behind the counter that he should hire Zach, since he had great customer service skills. He was doing his parrot imitation, saying the last thing that either the postal worker or I said. When he realized he had an audience, he was waving and yelling bye-bye as we left. He loves to work the crowd!

Don't get me wrong, while our kid is clearly a genius, it often takes some interpretation to figure out what he's saying. There are a LOT of letters he can't pronounce. So we often do a little repeating game, or pointing, to figure out what he wants. The one thing we can't figure out is something that sounds like "yay-saays". We know when he says it he means "Zach's turn", since it fits the context and he's pointing at himself, but we can't figure out why he's pronouncing it that way. He normally refers to himself as "Yack", and he can say "turn" pretty clearly when it's on it's own. But put them together, and you get Yaysaays. Go figure.