The Tangrens

I haven't done a Hyrum update lately and a lot has been happening all of a sudden. At his 9 month check up they asked me if he was clapping or waving or saying "Dadadadadadadadada" Horrified I said "No" He was banging things together but not his hands. He'd make all kinds of sounds but they all were squeals or moans or what sounded like a lot of complaining but no real consonant sounds. I got right to work. (He was 19lbs 9 oz and 29 in long if anyone was wondering)

But this is what he said...


*Side note: Isn't it fun to relive this time of life with your kids. Where in the adult world can you just blow raspberries for this long. As parents you can!

I worried so much about it. I said "Dada, Mama, Papa, baba, lala, wawa, gaga, nana..." until I was blue in the face and nothing. We realized that we never really waved to him so of course he wasn't waving he didn't have any concept of it. All he wanted to do was stand and walk around holding our fingers. He climbed up on everything. His scoot was looking a lot more like a army crawl and he'd get up on his knees to climb. He'd even stand on his own for 15-20 seconds but nothing even close to a word. Then one day as he worked his way from toy to toy across the room I heard a beautiful sound. I didn't recognize it at first because it was in his high pitched squealing voice but when I listened it was unmistakable. "Didididididididi!" Which quickly morphed into "Deh deh deh" "Dei dei dei" "Da da da" Sometimes even sounding like "Daddy" Derek was naturally thrilled but we were sure he didn't know what he was talking about.

Here's a little visual of his new accomplishments.


*Yes we are bursting at the seems. I simply have NOWHERE to put that beautiful cradle that Derek's brother made us, nor the 72 hour kit I got for Christmas. Save, save, save!