here it is, my 100th blog post. : ) don't get excited, it won't be anything too interesting...

rowan can say "micah" now, but doesn't really say it to her or about her. he just says it when he feels like it. the only other things he says with regularity are "dada" and "bye-bye". he doesn't even say "mama" that often. he has this one little series of sounds he makes when he wants something, but i couldn't spell it if i tried. it's just this one phrase of babbling, and it's usually accompanied by hand gestures. i can tell he's talking, in his own language, when he does it. and i try to answer back, and figure out what he's asking for. he has this cute cautiousness about him that i find irresistible. when i offer him a bite of something i'm eating, he reaches for it, then pauses and looks up at me like, "are you sure it's okay?" sometimes he needs lots of reassurance before he'll actually try it... or take the new thing i'm handing him, or walk into the new environment, or whatever the situation is; it's not always about food. he's such a sweet boy. oh, and the piece of gum that he tore by his upper lip and top two front teeth is looking much better already. it's not inflamed and doesn't bleed when i brush his teeth.

micah impressed me by counting to seven in spanish without any prompting or help from me, earlier today. we were reading a book together that we'd read several times before, and when i turned to the page where the numbers one through seven were printed, she just rambled them off in nicely-accented spanish! it must be all that 'dora the explorer' we watch. : )