The Breast of Humanity

Elder

In two weeks and a day, the eldest of my young 'uns will be three. Hard for me to fathom even more, the fact that I have managed to keep him alive this long.

Today, I was thinking about how much more the he is communicating and developing, so I thought I'd make a list.

If there are any that I have missed post them in the comments. I can't seem to remember everything at this moment. I may have to edit this post later for future posterity.

Things he says with words:

• Blanket (sounds more like buhn-da/buhn-dat)
• mama/mommy
• dada/daddy
• baby
• papa
• buddy
• one (wa), two (du), three (tee, sometimes tree), four (fo/vo), five (fi/vi)
• choo choo
• ball (baw)
• diaper (dah-puh)
• tea
• water (wawa)
• juice (dooce)
• milk (muh)
• apple/apple sauce
• spoon (poo)
• fork (fuh)
• bowl (buh)
• bird (buh)
• bug (buh)
• big (bih sometimes buh)
• duh (as in the term that came from in the early/mid-nineties)
• no
• yeah
• help (hep/ep or hup/up)
• up (up or puh)
• down (dah or dahn)
• not
• mine (muh)
• more (muh)
• tattoo (dadoo)
• moo (oooo), meow (yeow), arf arf, baa (aahh)

Things he says with signs:

• music
• juice
• chicken
• more
• milk
• banana
• peaches
• please
• thank you
• help
• hot
• cold
• big
• little
• bright

Things he does:

• pulls down his pants and removes his underwear/diaper to go potty or get in the tub
• pulls his pants up
• lines things up (cars, remote controls, plates, cds, tampons) and then points at them triumphantly proclaiming he has made a choo choo
• puts on a bib when eating
• eats, on his own (sort of)
• climbs into, but not out of, his crib
• snuggles up in your lap to play baby
• pulls his shirt up to "breast feed" his Grinch stuffed animal at his belly button
• plays with water faucets, alot
• puts on chap-stik and lotion
• puts pants on his sisters head
• turns on the computer monitor and moves the mouse so the log-in screen comes up
• pulls a chair to the counter to see what you are doing on the counter or in the sink
• attempts to help with whatever you are doing
• gets out a skillet when you tell him that you're making scrambled eggs (in the case of just a couple of days ago, he also got out the eggs and dropped them on the floor, luckily there were only four left)
• in the morning he says "mama, down" to request assistance out of bed
• he helps put away the clean dishes and knows where most of them (on his level) belong (He is especially good with the silver ware.)
• he requests tattoos and points to where he wants them and even gets the dish cloth so I can apply them more speedily even though I have not even made the attempt to head upstairs to get the tattoos, which are in the office
• he imitates daddy taking his asthma medications
• he requests music as soon as we get in the car, and demands it if it is not eminently forthcoming

Things the little girl does (just so she doesn't feel left out):

• gurgles and coos and gagas and goo goos and dadas
• says something that sounds like hamburger when she is crying
• grabs stuff that is within her reach while sitting up and laying down (including but not limited to the keyboard, my dinner plate, sharp objects like Star Wars toys that are laying around, choking hazards like the tiny plastic dinosaurs that her brother likes to make into soup)
• bangs whatever object she is holding on whatever surface is closest to her (be it the floor, the table, the tray on that unsafe walker that we always put her in while she is precariously perched at the top of the stairs)
• switches objects back and forth between her hands
• swings objects around in mid-air
• sits up very well, for long periods of time, without assistance, well, I mean I sit her up, but she stays there on her own
• push ups, holding her head high

Things she does not do:

• roll over
• make me pizza

posted by Jedi Master Deba Sing @ 3:03 PM 2 comments