growing baby

Mateo has been jabbering more these days (combining consonants and vowels to make random sounds) which is very cute.  Even more exciting, though, is that he’s also sometimes starting to sound like he’s actually mimicking your speech, only without any consonants at all.  For example, this morning I told him “te amo” and he repeated back to me “eh-ah-oh” with the proper inflections.  So sweet.  If only he knew what it meant!

He’s also started waving bye!  Usually you have a wave quite a while (sometimes for several minutes) before he’ll stick a hand out and kind of flap it.  Sometimes he follows the hand-flapping by saying “baaa”.  Is this “bye”?  It sounds sort of like it, but perhaps it’s random since we only say “bye” some of the time–we’re probably more likely to say adios, paka or even ciao.  In any case, I continue to be endlessly overjoyed and fascinated by Mateo at every turn.