Robert is increasing his vocabulary. Which language is the leading one? And some other progresses...

Being a kid in a household with 3 different languages has to be quite challenging. But Robert seems to be fine with that so far. He communicates mainly with smiles, laughing and squeaking. But slowly he starts also to speak. For quite some time he is able to say "mama" and "tata" and "brm brm". Now there are slowly more words coming. "Hop" or "hap" as he really likes to jump from things and asks for a hand, and "haf". "Haf" is a great word. He uses it mainly instead of "baf" as he learnt that dogs are making also "haf" to us to scare us when they suddenly appear behind the fence. So he runs around the house and when he sees us, he says "haf". Oh, and he loves the word "bum". More and more. He likes to throw things to the ground, smiling to us with his innocent smile and saying "bum". "Aaaah" like a 50 years old guy after finishing his drink is his typical sound after a sip of water. He says more and more often "ham" for food, "huuuu" for trains and sometimes he says also "buuu" for cows. He is not anymore saying "cojeto", but sometimes he manages to say "etě" for "ještě" (again). Tete" for Terezka, and that is it, I think. So far it is difficult to say which language is so far leading.

He can signalize anything and he also uses his finger to point to things he wants...

He also uses his hand - closing and opening it or bumping to my breast, trying to signalize by any mean that he really really wants to drink some milk. Or directly undressing me, which I don't mind that much, but Terezka is sometimes reminding me, that maybe it is not really polite to be naked in a bus :-D. Btw he also likes to take of my coverage and put it on his head as a small hat, which I really don't mind in these hot days :).

It is not connected to language communication that much, but we try to teach him to go for a toilet. Sometimes he manages. But mostly, he gets up from his pot and pees next to it or doesn't pee at all. So far fortunately mainly in the bathroom. He also learnt to take off his diaper. It is cool and funny so far (as he didn't do it yet on the carpet). Today he managed to take it off in the kitchen when he wanted to pee. Then we closed it immediately, because we thought he is just playing, but when he tried to walk to us, he was sliding and almost falling. Then he walked really carefully on, leaving the big puddle of pee behind him. There is a progress. It is not linear and not exactly what we would like to, but it is funny. We really had a lot of fun with him today.

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