The problem with talking

Finn's adding more and more words all the time. Mostly, he still sounds like a cross between a chipmunk and the hamburglar, but his intonation and the way he looks at you are different - like he really thinks he's communicating something of substance. We spend a lot of time agreeing with him and saying "oh really?"
His new favorite word, one he can get very insistent about, is "show," pronounced "ho," or most often, "cho," while pointing to the TV, waving a remote, or grabbing a DVD case. Here he is saying it. Endlessly. Welcome to our weekend.


Cho. from Katie on Vimeo.
As a general rule, Finn doesn't get to watch TV. We have a borrowed 1/2 hour Baby Einstein DVD that we let him watch in emergency situations, like plane rides, or, say, Tuesdays. And if he's sick, we pretty much let him watch as much as he wants, because it keeps him distracted from feeling icky. Here he is watching Babe, and letting us know what he thinks about it. Note the plague cough.


Yelling at a show from Katie on Vimeo.

We want to encourage him talking, and let him know that we understand, so we like to give him things he specifically asks for, like raisins and "more." But the "show" thing is out of control, and we had a lot of conversations this weekend that basically consisted of "Cho." "You want to watch a show. No show." "Cho." "No show." until we figured out a way to distract him. It's gotten better since the fever went away, but I'm sure I'll be hearing it again soon.


And on an unrelated note, here he is looking all grown up, reading his cat magazine (some random catalog we got in the mail and he claimed as his own) on his way to day care in the morning. A few more at Flickr.