Smart Boy!

In the past few days, Truman has really started to impress us with his ability to use and understand language. He is really upping the number of sounds he makes, and has started mimicking us when we laugh or sing loudly (he'll go "Ahhhh!" along with us!). He also now knows what "No" means, which has started to be very helpful for us parents :-) When we tell Truman no, he will turn and smile at us, then start to do again whatever he was doing - when we say no a 2nd time, he then stops the action and moves on to something else. We love how he kind of "tests" whether or not we really mean no, and then listens once we confirm we are serious - it's very sweet! But our favorite new skill is that the past two nights Truman has started picking up books and bringing them to us so we'll read to him - isn't that precious?? Last night he got a book and then dropped it on me. I didn't think much of it (he often brings toys to Shea and I) until he picked up the book and dropped it on me again and then gave me an expecting look. Then tonight, he picked up a book, crawled a couple feet with it, and then waved it around in Shea's face until he read it to him. As we've said before, our boy really loves his books!