"geen" and 2 word phrases

I started writing this post SEVERAL days ago and I keep getting side tracked so I've decided I MUST finish it this evening or I might not ever get around to it!

Well Parker has added another color that we're sure he knows... "geen" (green)! We actually think he knows more than just the yellow, purple and green because often times when we ask him to point to say the orange ball he correctly identifies it numerous times so I think if we were more conisistent about asking, we'd find that he knows a lot of the basic colors! This morning I was getting Parker ready to go to the library and I held up 2 different jackets (one green and one blue) for him to choose from and asked which one he wanted to wear. Without missing a beat, he pointed to green jacket and said what sounded like green. I always keep these things in the back my mind in case it is just a fluke or I'm hearing things because I want to hear them, lol! :) I briefly told James later that morning that I thought Parker had said green and that was about it. Then when we were at the library, Parker was sitting at one of the activity tables they have for kids and was doing a puzzle when he pointed to the green chair at the table next to him and very clearly said "geen". He has pointed at green things and said geen several times since then too! :)

On an entirely different note, Parker has started stringing 2 words together to make 2 word phrases! The ones I've heard him do so far are, "yes please", "yellow car" and "out car" (his way of telling me he is ready to get out of the car). "Yes please" is kind of a breakthrough because Parker used to say "yeah" and even "yes" occasionally when he was younger and somewhere along the line, his "yeahs and yeses" have turned into "huh and uh-huh". It sounds ADORABLE when he says his sweet little "uh-huhs" although not exactly polite. For this reason we have really been trying to stress lately that when we ask him if he wants something and he would like it, he should say, "yes please". We asked him a couple of days ago whether he wanted more vegetables and he at first said his usual "huh!" (yes) but then when we said "Parker, if we want more of something we say "yes please"...can you say yes please?" (which by the way is that same way we have asked him to say it all along!) it was like a light bulb went on in his head and he all of a sudden started saying "yes please" over and over again. Funny thing is, he hasn't done it since. Such a silly kid! Either way I'm really proud of him for figuring out how to string 2 words together to make phrases! Such a big boy thing to do! He'll really be talking up a storm before we know it!