Arthur talks

Arthur gives us a piece of his mind.

By now Arthur can communicate pretty much all of his needs and desires and in increasingly complex sentences.

He is forever pointing at things in his world and saying, "What's that called?"  Yesterday he asked Amy Robb, "Amy, what is that baby called?" about Ivy.

 Eating coffee cake at Starbucks.

He also likes making jokes, his favorite of which is to put an object on his head and declare it a "hat," then laugh uproariously.

Of course, he still has a baby's uncertain pronunciation, and I am the only one who can understand everything he says - and Beatrice, who sometimes understands him better than I do.  He has a number of his own words, including Bebe (his name for Beatrice), er (water), shi (for fish), ami (open or elephant*), and didyou (dinosaur).

Here is Arthur identifying the parts of his body:

And here are Beatrice and Arthur singing a song they wrote together called "Oh, Ducky!"  Arthur wrote the tune and the line, "Oh, Ducky!" and Beatrice added the line, "Do you have a radio?"  At the end of this video Arthur says, "Hey Mommy, look at Bebe!"

"Oh, Ducky! Oh, Ducky! Do you have a radio?"

*Strangely, Beatrice also used the word ami for both "open" and "elephant."