Ready... Set ... DOE!

Silas has really enjoyed playing outside lately. His new favorite thing to do is go down the slide. We say "ready... set..." and he says "DOE!" and follows it up with "WEE!" Of course he still loves to play with balls and is even starting to be able to catch a ball from time to time!

Here Silas is holding an ice pack on his head... the actual bump is in the middle of his forehead, haha. Today he slammed his finger in a door so we got out the ice pack again and he held it on his head... then when he was feeling better he said "Ahhbedah" (translation: all better). This poor kid always has at least one bruise or scrape on his head.
He loves wearing his "belt" (He calls it "beh") He grabs these links almost every morning and asks us to put them on him.

Our little handy man... doesn't he look a little like Al from Home Improvement?

Tomorrow Silas will be 14 months old. He is all boy and definitely has a mind of his own!

Words

Here is an alphabetical list of all the words that we can think of that Silas says these days (followed by Silas' pronounciation):

All Done (Ah-Dah) [He doesn't say this often because he never wants to stop eating]
Apple (Bahpeh)
Baby (Bay)
Ball (Baw/Bah) [His first word]
Balloon (Bahgoon/Bnggng) [He loves balloons]
Basketball (Ba-geh-ba) [He only said this once]
Bear (Beh) [His favorite animal at the zoo]
Bike (Bu)
Boat (Buh)
Bonk (Bah/Beh) [Guess why he says this. His head is like one big bruise]
Book (Bu)
Boom (Bm) [Again, he is like a walking bruise sometimes]
Bop-bop-bop (Bop-bop-bop) [This is the noise a drum makes--duh.]
Bread (Behd)
Bubba (Buh-buh) [His nickname]
Bubble (Buh-buh)
Bug (Buh)
Bye-Bye (Bah-bah)
Cracker (Ga-gka)
Dada (Dee-dah/Da-daDa/Dad)
Dark (Dar/Dah/Dohr)
Dog (Dah) [His all-time favorite animal]
Down (Dahn)
Fish (Fssh)
Flower (Wa)
Goomba [We don't know what a goomba is, but he says it all the time]
Hi (Ha/Hey)
Hop-hop-hop (Bop-bop-bop)
Hot (Hah/Aah))
Isaiah (zay-ah) [His best buddy]
Light (T)
Loon (Boon) [His dad is from Minnesota]
Mama (Mama/Ahm/Mmmmmaaamaa)
Moo (Boo)
More (Mo)
No (N-n-n-n)
Quack (Dah-Dah-Dah)
Pear (Peh)
Plane (Bah)
Please (Pee/Hmm)
River (Re-Re)
Roar (Rahhhh)
Rock (Rah)
Rough (Rah)
Run (Rah-Rah-Rah-Rah...)
Shoes (Doos)
Sock (Sah/Tah/Dah)
Spoon (Poon/Boon)
Star (Dah)
That (Dat)
Truck (Deah)
Uh-oh (Uh. Oh. / Uh-Uh-Uh-Oh)
Vacuum (Bahboom)
Wall (Wah)
Water (Bah-bah/Wah)
Wet (Weh)

[He also makes a lot of animal noises.]

I'm sure he says some more words, but that's a pretty good list, eh?

More Pictures and Videos

Isaiah recently spent a day playing over at Silas' house. By the end of the day, Isaiah was chasing Silas down and giving him hugs. Silas could tolerate it for a very short time.

Jess's old college roommate, Stacy, and her brand-spanking-new husband, Chris, stopped by to visit (Paul was at work) while out west on their honeymoon!

We also went hiking again. This time we went to the old standby, Mount Falcon Open Space. There was a picnic shelter at the top of the mountain and Silas ran all over it! You can't hear it on the videos below, but he is saying "ra-ra-ra-ra-ra..." ("run, run, run, run, run...") almost the entire time.