Ryan from Ork

Ryan is slowly expanding his vocabulary, and I find the more he talks, the more we discover that he has his own word for something, that sounds nothing like the real word! Some of his favorite words....

EEEEEEEE = Horse
Eggo = Elmo
Duddles = Bubbles
Wawa = Water
eeeesssss = Please
eye-an = Ryan
D'OH = Boat. Or sometimes means truck or even just the water that the boat is in
OUT = means out and in. This can be very confusing when he is standing at the door yelling "OUT" and we are already outside.

He also has words for Grandma, Grandpa and Papa which I cannot even decipher enough to attempt a spelling. And my own personal favorite - NANU. What does Nanu mean, you ask? Well, we used to think it meant "more." Ryan would do the sign for more, while at the same time saying "NA-NU!!!" when he wanted more milk, juice, snacks, etc. Then he went on to using it when wanting another book or toy. Now it pretty much just means everything. I think it just means "I want" because he says Na Nu ALL THE TIME while pointing at what he wants. Yesterday he wanted to go inside and started pointing at the door yelling "Na-Nu." We had no idea what he was asking for. We always thought he was from another planet...maybe that planet is Ork!

"nanu nanu!"