I wanted to write down something typical of how Silas speaks now. I just scribbled it down as he was playing with a Lego "car" (wheels on a base), a little metal car which he claimed had a bulldozer blade on the front, and the sofa (where he was climbing over me part of the time). Anyway, here's what he said:
This have a bulldozer blade that move dirt. (speaking for Lego car:)"Do you have a bulldozer blade?" (speaking for blue car:)"Yeah," says bulldozer. Pull pull pull pull... Dump and then dive and then push push push.
I will climb up. I will be very very careful. Julie, I climbing over your back. I being very careful.
This a yeen [machine].
(At this point Russell was trying to get the Lego car from him to scrap it for his parts. After some initial wrangling we convinced Russell to try to negotiate with Silas.)
R: Want me to make a car for sharing? S: Yeah, like the old blue car. R: Want me to make a Lego car for zooming around zoos? S: No, make a car like this blue old car for house (?).
Back to Silas: The car pushing this.
Then Silas wanted to make a race car out of the K'nex toys, but the wheels weren't in the room, so he started thumping the K'nex structure he'd made and said, "We have to have a drum cause we not have wheels for my race car."
That's all she wrote. Of course, he's still talking to himself as I type this!