Yesterday, he offered me a "thank you" completely unprompted, after I had given him a graham cracker. He has learned to say please and thank you, but usually with prompting or by repeating what you say. It was nice to hear him say it on his own.
His favorite word these past two days seems to be "no no no," but some of his common words that are new in the past few weeks include: blanket, yogurt (which he wants at every meal), cold, snow, outside, tickle, hug, juice, push, purse, choo-choo, and light. He knows that a cow goes "moo" and a cat says "meow."
Charlie has discovered pockets. A couple of times in the past week, I've noticed him standing with his hands in his pants pockets. Makes him look like a tiny little man!
Over the past two days we've noticed Charlie making a pouty lip face when he's busy working on something with a lot of concentration. I managed to get this photo of him.
Imitating actions he sees around the house or at school is a big thing for the little guy right now. Yesterday I caught him feeding a couple of dolls some Kix, and he tries to feed Lucy his sippy cup. He also likes to open the drawers of the dresser in his room and put clothes in and out.
Charlie is very in to giving hugs right now. But you can't have just one. If you ask for one, he then has to go around the room and hug each person present (saying "hug, hug, hug" as he does so, and then he starts over at the beginning. Sometimes this lasts for several rounds.
While we've been stuck at home, Charlie has moved on from Monsters Inc to The Incredibles as is favorite movie of choice. We've also had some Finding Nemo thrown in, and Handy Manny has made a return to the rotation.
Be sure to check out John's video of Charlie playing with puppets, and doing his lion imitation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw6w-b-CI0I