I told you so.

There. I am saying it for those of you might be tempted to say this to me.

As my friend Lesley wrote not too long ago on her blog: once you write something about your child on your blog, it will invariably change. And so it has with Zeke's language.

The day after my last post, when I picked Zeke up from school, Ms. Teacher said, "So, Zeke is Mr. Talkative these days, eh?" She said that during school he had repeated numbers and other words like "snack" and "lunch". This week, he has been a chatty little parrot and will generally repeat any words when asked. He does appear to have had the language explosion that parents often talk about.

* He does often speak in a sort of pig Latin where words will sometimes start with an "ah" sound, the middle sounds are ellided, and end with an "ay" sound. Thus, "Daddy" becomes "ah-day," "buddy" (a nickname) is something like "ah-bay" and "Maggie" is "ah-may." He gets so excited to call her by name. It is disarmingly charming. He will also do this with other words he knows like "mama." I hear is it is a phase that some children go through. Most of his pronunciation does need some work, but he clearly has the words and is working on them.

* He can name body parts: arm, leg, feet, toes, nose, ears, eyes, mouth, teeth and more (including "back").

* He can repeat numbers, "one" through "ten." It remains to be seen whether he can count, but he can read the numbers. We will point to numbers or one of his toys will light up a number, and he will say what it is. We are so surprised!

* He has started using words that we have not heard in a long time like "cracker" and "cookie."

* He has this funny reaction to our asking him to repeat words. He will give it one or two tries, but if he is still having a hard time and doesn't quite get it, he will just shriek with laughter.