rapid speech acquisition

So this talking thing is really happening. It's a real shocker to hear more complicated things coming from Graham. Samples from the last few days include "hat go out" "pretty house" "go nana (Anneva) house" "up please" "more please" "dada shoes" and "ball go." Today while reading before his nap, Graham finished my sentences from Goodnight Moon. Clear as a bell: Goodnight little "house" and goodnight "mouse."

In other news, we thought we had passed through Vaccum Terror, but we have not. The canister vac is no problem, but the old upright that we use to occasionally deep sweep the carpeted areas provoked intense shaking and tears yesterday. It's all he's been thinking about I think. He keeps signing "vaccum loud scared" over and over. Not sure how we're going to get past that one. It's really endearing, but pretty awful at the same time.

We have had three sucessful Graham-initiated pees in the potty, but when he tells me he needs to poo he gets stage fright and wants me to hold him while he sits on the potty. For all his rough and tumble, he's still such a little guy. It just melts me, his little arms around me while he tries his best to poop. I love him.