Evan is 17 months now and learning lots of new words. He learns a new word almost every other day it seems. One of our favorite words these days it "Thank you". (I know it is really two words but he says it as one word) I'd like to take credit for it and say it was because of our good parenting that he is learning such polite words and behaviors but the truth is he did it all on his own. We play the thank you game a lot, Evan will hand us something usually a toy and we say 'thank you' and then he wants us to hand it back to him so he can say 'tanko'. It is so fun to watch him learn to communicate, he gets so proud of him self when he knows that he has used the right word for things. 'Tanko' is one of my favorites though, especially when it is used instead of whining. If I am holding something he wants like grapes, he will start saying or yelling thank you until I give it to him it is very cute. I just hope it isn't a phase.
