Random Updates

I completely missed the 20-month post, so here are a bunch of random updates, in no particular order at all:

• Henry is really into singing and music.  He especially loves watching music videos, so I've spent more time on YouTube in the last week than in the entire time since YouTube was invented.  Sesame Street has some great stuff.  His current favorites are will.i.am's "What I Am" and India Arie singing the ABC song.
• I can now recite the whole of The Lorax while reading work e-mail.
• Pronouns are hard.  If he wants to be carried, he says, "I carry you." 
• He doesn't say "odacer" anymore.  We never figured out what it meant.
• He's up to four-word phrases.  This evening he said, clear as day, "I need more water."
• For the most part, the talking is adorable, but if we never heard "get down" or "more raisins" again, it would be okay.
• He recognizes a few letters and likes to spot X, O, and Y in books with simple fonts.  
• His new best friend (other than Ravi) is a little girl named Annie whose nanny is friends with Elaine.  He tells us whenever they go out or have lunch with Annie.  I thought we had like twelve years before he started talking about girls.
• He is starting to have opinions on day-to-day operations.  Yesterday he unsolicitedly requested his Viking shirt (it is an awesome shirt).  
• It doesn't seem to have occurred to him that he could climb out of his own crib.  But he does climb up side of the baby's crib and shout, "baby sister crib!"  I wonder how long it will be before we find him sitting on her in bed.
• He still likes to have things in both hands.  Raisins in the left?  Must have raisins in the right.  Soap in the right?  Must have soap in the left too.
• He can now say L's -- this is a minor relief, since he was so tongue-tied at birth that we were afraid he might have some speech problems.  He doesn't always do it (Elaine is still always "yainey") but when he does, it's super exaggerated.  He sticks his tongue as far out as it will go and really embraces the L-sound.