Chatty Chumus

In recent weeks, Joaquin's verbal skills have been growing by leaps and bounds. Right now he has been having a more-or-less coherent conversation with his Bear in his crib, telling him to go to sleep. He can now, on his own, pair adjectives to nouns (albeit in different languages, such as "大 burbuja!"). He can now translate something that one parent says, to the other parent, in another language, even English. He can repeat any word we say, and remember some of them weeks after we say it. Once, he asked us to raise his diaper because it had slipped down his pants by saying "Suba!".

On the more difficult side, he's become quite idiosyncratic about what he eats when, and delights in disobeying us. When he knows he's doing something bad (such as sneaking away from the dinner table), he'll look sideways at us with a grin, while inching away slowly trying to see how much he can get away with. Comes with having a clever kid, we suppose : )