Charles is finally beginning to pick up language skills. He certainly seems to understand much more complex sentences. Previously he could understand variants on stock phrases but now he understands somewhat new sentences in novel situations. He’s also started asking “why” within the last couple of weeks. Charles seems to listen to the answers.
While we were closing on the house Charles was entertaining himself for a while by reading along with Mom on the legal documents. He’d point at clauses and babble about them. A couple of times he got upset when he didn’t get a chance to look things over.
And this morning, for the first time, Charles used the word “car” without any direct prompting. He was wearing his Hot Wheels™ shirt and Mom asked him “what’s on your shirt?” and Charles replied “car”. Maybe he’ll be using complete sentences himself by the time he gets to kindergarten.