Doofus!

I wrote a big post today on my other blog about how Liam went from saying Joseph as Jofus, to Goofus, to Doofus! Along with that, Hannah was working with him on saying his actual name. William Joseph, and so now he is WiLEUM Doofus!

What a kid!

Bob

Liam talks all the time now, but he still can't say some things, but he makes up his own word, or we translate what he's trying to say into something completely different perhaps, and some people have ended up with nick names based on what he can say.

Amanda started being Panna -from another little friend she babysits just a little bit older than Liam. So that one was sort of already set, and she is Panna. Rebekah is Bekah for really the first time on a regular basis at home. Hannah is Nannah (a bit confusing sometimes with Panna). Sariah started being RaRa with younger siblings of two different friends of hers, so she is RaRa. Marissa started being called Marissa Roo somehow as a young child, and Liam has picked up on it and she is Roo Roo and sometimes Rooie. he says several of the kids friends names, but his favorite is Bob! Now Bob isn't really named Bob, but when he started saying this friend's name, Caleb - it came out Leb or Lub and that QUICKLY turned into Bob, and now that is just his name! Bob is nearly one of the family. Liam Loves Bob! We think it has something to do with the amount of estrogen at our house, and Bill isn't home during the day, so Bob is his best friend!

Bob lives across the street and has two older brothers. We've nearly adopted Bob, and he is over pretty much every day. His family went on vacation the same week the girls went to camp, then for whatever reason he wasn't really around and Sariah took another week 'off' of school, and even Rebekah started asking where Bob was at? Why wasn't he over here, she hadn't seem him lately.

Shortly after we built Liam's room, Bob was over and Liam took him by the hand and took him upstairs to play! It was so cute! When Bob leaves our house to go home he gets upset, when he hears the knocking on the front door, he runs, yelling Bob! Bob! Bob is very patient and kind to actually play with Liam, and the other day when I was gone (Perhaps last week when I was at one of the births), he climbed up on the couch next to Bob, crawled onto his lap and fell asleep. How cute is that?!?

More silly saying from Liam

In the past week Liam has really started to say more and more things and he is parroting what others say.

Yesterday Sariah was getting her snake out while we were moving her dresser and had the cage down, and Liam who LOVES the snakes, wanted to see it and started saying Billy (which is what Sariah named her snake). It sort of sounds likes "bee yee". Dad asked him again "what is his name?" and he said again "bee yee", and poked his belly! We all cracked up! He is associating names of things with various names for body parts! Too Funny!

O.K. so, this is how BOYS play with Barbie cars! Liam stole the cars from his sisters, sort of threw them down the stairs, and... then procedded to try to ride it around the house! what a silly kid!

Liam is talking (more)

O.K. so....... so far this blog has been mostly about Liam. Well he is the smallest and I spend more of my time each day with him... since all the girls are in school all day. So I guess it just works out that way. It's not that my other children don't come up with cute things that they do or say ever... I just don't see it all that often any more.

Liam has started talking. He's trying to say lots of words, so far mostly repeating what you ask him to say, but that is a start! He is funny though, he whispers a lot of the words he says. I don't know why, but we think it's pretty funny. he still signs lots of words, but has started saying and signing at the same time. I don't know if it helped that all the kids were around last week durring spring break or what, but he definitely had lots more interaction last week and really started saying things.

Before Grandpa got here Sariah was showing Liam the pictures on the wall and saying Grandpa, and we ended up with him saying 'papa' we liked that, so that's what we encouraged. He would say it whenever 'papa' walked in the door (which was many times a day, since they were working and would go in and out of the house to the garage 'workshop' where they would cut the wood or drywall, or whatever...). Grandpa also brought his bird since grandma was also going to be gone that week visiting her daughters in MD. so... the bird came down in the back of his van. Liam LOVED the bird! he has been signing bird for many many months now, but this past week he would sign AND say bird, as soon as he woke up in the morning or ANYTIME the garage door opened (and he would hear it chirping/singing) and go running to see the bird. At night he would constantly wan tto go see it and we would have to tell him the bird went night night! see he has a blankie on him, it's night night... be quiet so you don't wake him up.

On monday morning after 'papa' and daddy left, he asked to go see the 'Bird' and we had to tell him it went bye bye with papa... he was very sad!

I don't know how to explain the way he talks... he does't say all the extra words, but makees this noise... in a sort of sing songy way "ah ah ____" and then the word he is saying. So to say I want to go out and see the bird, he would say "ah ah bird". It generally means I want, but it can also mean where is, or any other sorts of things. you hear him say it, and then try to figure out what word he is actually saing and what it is that he truely wants to convey to you... it is definitley interesting...

Amanda started with him a while ago, saying things like can you say? "_____" and trying to get him to repeat things. Her main one is "I", he whispers "I", "Love", "_____" and then whatever name she is trying to get him to say. It started out with "Panna" (Amanda - from a little friend who she babysits and that is what Emma started calling her when she began talking, so now it's what we say at our house too). It sort of became a game, and before she could try to get him to say "Panna", I would jump in with "MOMMA"! and sometimes he'd say, "Momma" as 'Panna' was trying to get him to say her name. it was sort of a competition as to who he 'LOVED' more! so now we play this game all the time and all the girls get involved, "Nana" (Hannah), "Ra Ra" (Sariah - also a name she picked up from another little friend who started saying her name that way and now it's gone through about 4 families as her name for the little on'es to call her), "Roo" or 'Roo roo' (For Marissa Roo a little nickname we'd given her along the way), or Bekah, (pretty self explainitory, I would hope).

Then the next thing Amanda would say and try to get him to say is... "so and so, MEAN" when somone would do something to him that wasn't so nice... now, periodically when 'Panna' is trying to get him to say he loves someone... he'll say "Panna (or whoever he is talking about) MEAN!" it might not lead to good things down the road, but for now it is quite amusing.