What Else is Connor Doing?

This is milk here, not juice, but you get the idea.

Ever since Connor has discovered he can open the fridge door, he's been little Mr. Independent as far as going for what he wants. While living here, Connor has drank either milk or water. Recently his dad bought a carton of juice, and we let him have a little. It was like heroin. If you recall from photos, we have a dorm-style sized refrigerator. He tried his best to help himself. We had to put the juice on the counter out of his reach. On this occasion, I observed that Connor hasn't the least bit of difficulty drinking from a regular cup, which is what I served the juice in - he didn't want to waste a single drop. Just wish he felt the same way about water ...
Today Connor tried to eat with chopsticks - udon noodles no less! Once he somehow managed to balance a noodle on a chopstick - the wrong end of it - but it was mostly Connor holding the pair of hashi with his left hand and putting noodles into his mouth with the right.
New words. He has a new Japanese word: aka, the word for "red." The other day his father was listening to a language CD and Connor was nearby. "Aka," said the voice.
"Ako," said Connor.
"Aka," Joe told him.
"Ako," replied Connor. A few more rounds of this and I yelled, "AKA!" from the other room.
"Aka!" Connor finally got it.
In keeping with vowel sounds, he's been known to say "eyebrow" and "eyeball." And continuing his fascination with "O," he can say and identify oval. The other night he walked into his father's classroom, up to a poster featuring shapes, pointed it out and said "oval." That surprised us.
Last night during dinner break we were looking at his alphabet poster. He pointed to the F. "Fish," his dad told him, because it features an illustration of a fish. Then Connor had to leave because he had to go point to the broiler where we cook fish. How he does he know that?
He also LOVES to climb (cringe). And he's very particular in his arrangement of things - items must be put back the way they were found.
Another funny thing he does - I know this comes from imitating me - when he sees something "cute," like a teddy bear, Hello Kitty, a small dog, or a baby animal, he'll kind of screw up his face, point at it, and say, "Awww."
A new reaction to frustration is to yell "Ack!" very loudly and sharply. Connor is quickly frustrated when something doesn't go his way, a trait in myself that I see in him. Ack!
All things considered, he's a great kid and loads of fun, very sweet and loving and funny.