Baby Carrot

My mom came over today to play with Garrett while I ran errands. When I got back she asked me how long Garrett had been counting to 10. I told her she was a crazy old lady and didn’t know what she was talking about. She stood firm and told me he was counting his gummies at lunch. I just said whatever and went on with my day. When I got Garrett up form his nap I decided to see if my mother was indeed crazy and started counting to G. I started with 1 he said “tuuuuu, tee, tee, tee” I said four he said, “ive, sis, sesen, eigh, nigh, en” I was FLOORED!! He kept doing it, no prompting. Then he was counting his pretzels by himself at snack time. I stared in amazement. We went on with the afternoon and he was looking at a picture of my sister, brother in law with me and Branden and I was about to tell him who the people were and he pointed to them and said their names. Again I just looked at him and said, “What?” Then we went upstairs and were playing with his shape puzzle and he took them all out and started to put them back in, which he has been able to do for awhile, but this time he was saying the name of each shape like I do when he puts them in their place. The kid was trying to say octagon, pentagon, diamond, trapezoid and all the others. I could make out what he was saying and he just kept on going like he had been doing that forever. I had to call Branden who is out of town after he did that. After Garrett’s bath we sing songs and are silly while I put his lotion on and get him dressed. One of the songs we sing is his name song that my sister came up with for him. It is ‘G, A, R, R, E, T, T Garrett, Garrett, G, A, R, R, E, T, T Garrett is your name.” It is to the tune of “Mary had a little lamb”. And yes you guessed it, he started singing with me. I can not believe that he is doing these things! I told Branden he better hurry up and come home because I don’t know what he is going to be doing next. Branden thinks it will be him finding a cure for cancer, I on the other hand will be happy if he sings his ABC’s.

I heard that kiddos have a language explosion at 18 months but I had no idea it would happen all in one day! He is also replacing his baby words with real words. He did not say ‘Ducka, Ducka” when he wanted his cup this afternoon he said, “Mama, Drink” and pointed to his cup. I almost cried at that one.

He is turning into a real like toddler before my eyes. He continues to amaze me everyday, and I can’t what to see what he has in store for me tomorrow.

P.S. I did call my mother and tell that she was correct about Garrett counting, but she is still crazy.

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