RoRo

• calls himself "RoRo" (Rowen came up with this himself, he mostly uses it to mean "I want to do it without your help!")
  
• saying lots of new words... baby, truck, boat, up, yeah!
• signing for blanket
• He says "Yeah!" and "noooo" correctly to every question we ask him
  
• saying new names... he can say almost all of our family member's names now, the newest ones are GiGi, Liz, Matt, Olivia; his favorite now is T G for T.J.
  
• can say "Liza", "Eric", "Tom", "Les"; it is pretty funny to hear him say "Liza" with a big grin on his face
• can almost do a somersault by himself
• loves to do "downward facing dog", looking at things upside down
• obsessed with cars, makes "vroom, vroom" sounds everywhere, has to have a toy car in his hands most of the day
• over the past few days, Eric and I have noticed that he is communicating at a different level... it is like he is starting to have more actual conversations with us instead of just one word communication; this is so fun to see him changing like this
• unfortunately, he is hitting us when he gets tired, frustrated, overwhelmed, etc.- this makes us sad but the consequences are harder on him