Month 28 - Recap

You love giving High Fives. You especially love giving them Up High and Down Low. And even though you're usually Too Slow, you still insist on playing the game no fewer than 384 times a day. We were stopped at a red light a few weeks ago and we were next to a service vehicle that had a flashing light on top of it.
You: Yook [Look], Momma! A yight [light]! A YIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!! (You're nothing, if not enthusiastic).
Me: I see it! Cool, huh?
You: Yight up high.
Me: The light IS on top of the truck. You're right! (In case you have a two-year-old one day, they want you to acknowledge and repeat everything they say. Everything. They. Say. E. V. E. R. Y. T. H. I. N. G.)
You: Yight up high. Not down yow [low]. TOO S'YO!!!! [slow]

Hysterical.

You also love playing Tic Tac Toe. And by 'playing Tic Tac Toe', I, of course, mean that you love taking the magnetic Os and sticking them on your fingers like rings and taking the Xs and stacking them in a pile and trying to balance it on your arm. Surprisingly (not), this infuriates your sister, who simply cannot IMAGINE why a two-year-old cannot grasp the proper way to play Tic Tac Toe. Oh, and you call it Tac Toe Toes. That, not surprisingly, makes your sister giggle.

You feel most words that end in an N should instead end in a D or a T, and if a word starts with an S, the S is completely optional. Down is downt, whine is whine-t (whining is whine-ding), on is on-t. It's hard to type out how you pronounce an S word without saying the S, but I'll try: breathe out through your nose and simultaneously scrunch your nose like you smell something gross. Then say the word with out the S.

You were sitting on a basketball yesterday (because that's totally normal, right?) and after you fell off it (shocker!), you were sitting on the ground with your back to the basketball. You turned around, saw the basketball, smiled and said "Yook, Momma! I a snail! Yike [Like] Tuh-bo [Turbo]!" That you realized the basketball up against your back looked like a snail shell absolutely floored me. And you looked so tickled for coming up with it. I think you were probably bummed that it didn't make you as fast as a nitrous oxide-fueled snail, though.

This month you started asking the names of song titles and the words of certain lyrics. Which just further confirms that Christian radio is the way to go for our family. Even though you don't necessarily know what the titles or lyrics mean, I like not having to cringe when I tell you the answer. It's not like I think you and Natalie are never going to listen to secular music, but for the time being, while you're both still so impressionable, I want to fill your heads and hearts with music that's missing the drama/anger/adult behavior that seems to be so prevalent in a lot of secular music.

For the past few months, whenever you pitch a fit, I tell you to go to your room if you need to fuss. You don't stop fussing, but your shoulders slump and turn inward and you walk pitifully to your room. Thirty seconds later you come find me and tell me you've "stopped whine-ding". I know it won't always be that easy, but it cracks me up that it works for now.

You're such a fun kid to be around, full of demanding curiosity and unbridled silliness. My heart is full to overflowing with you and your delightful, albeit periodically whine-dy, spirit.

Hugs and smooches,
Mommy & Daddy

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