progress

Ennio is saying more and more words. Boon and I counted in the car, and he now has over 20 words in his vocabulary. He's also starting to use them spontaneously to convey his wants. This morning he was on the couch in the office looking out the window at Boon and some plumbers. Then he said "ba ba" (which in this context meant bao bao) to pick him up. Then he said door - because he wanted me to take him to the front door to look outside. Very exciting.

Other new words he's recently added are:

• up
• down
• yellow
• door
• bao bao (ba ba)

As for his chewing, Robin is very happy with his progress - only concerned that he doesn't always chew his soft foods. I still feel like he can't eat a lot of foods though, but I don't know if that's a function of not being able to chew or because he doesn't like the taste/texture. We still feed him a lot of frozen pureed baby foods, though I try to mix it with pasta so he has something to chew. I go to Whole Foods and my entire cart is frozen baby food. I feel utterly self-conscious about this - thinking the check out girl is looking down on me for feeding my baby so much forzen food. Boon keeps reassuring me that we're doing a good job feeding Ennio, but I can't help but stress about it all the time.