Names.

Lately, Kai has really been saying the names of people. He spent over a month calling my friend, Jess, Nana. Now, he still knew that Jake's mom is Nana. If shown a picture of real Nana he would tell me that she was Nana, I don't know if he just needed a name for her and decided to call her Nana too maybe. Then suddenly, Friday, he started to call her Jess out of nowhere. He just started to call my niece "Sami." Prior to this, he just kind of referred to both my niece and nephew as a collective "Riley." He had been calling the cats "mew" and recently started calling them cat and now will call them by their names from time to time.

In addition to names, he has learned a ton of new words. The coolest new word debut this week was when we stopped to see if a battery store carried the rechargables that we use (they did not). There was a giant camera advertisement in the outside window and as I was getting Kai out of his car seat he was pointing out the front window telling me "picture, picture, picture" and then he smiled and said "cheese." So stinking cute.