Caleb has moved way past me being able to identify how many words he knows. It's amazing to me that about a year ago I took a video of him singing Happy Birthday to Rob's dad and all he got out was "Happy...Paw-paw!" And now...the other day in the car he asked "What do [g]overments do?"Well lately, Caleb's big thing is gender awareness. Not his own, he has no problem with that, he just wants to know everything's gender. He really surprises me in that he almost never gets it wrong on people, but he insists on knowing if trains or balloons or oatmeal or dogs are boys or girls.
He also constantly asks me what words start with, if people eat birds (not chickens, mama, outdoor birds), if snakes can eat people, where the sewer is (that is where peepee goes after you flush), where cars live, and who threw that random piece of garbage on the ground. He is still a little hard to understand for most people, which I find kind of amusing. He asks other adults questions all the time only to get "that's interesting" answers. It's kind of like being fluent in a very obscure foreign language. He'll say something, it will be completely obvious that whoever he's talking to didn't understand at all, but completely clear to me. I haven't done this recently, but once a while back, I purposely talked back to him the way he talks and he couldn't understand me! Ha!
Annalise, well she isn't really talking yet, she is quite a babbler though. But she has started enjoying the attention she gets from people at the grocery store, so instead of looking away in a sob, she's started smiling and laughing which delights our fellow shoppers and is making her come out of her shell.
I followed Caleb's example when we were diving in Cayman. I picked up a beer bottle and managed to unwind about 20 feet of nylon fishing line (sinker and hook too) from the coral.
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