Sarah and Adam: The Next Generation

Smoke-a-motives and more talking

At 22 months, Jasper's talking is picking up a notch. A few choice quotes/stories:
* Coming across a train engine, Jasper can't quite remember the word for locomotive (or perhaps conflating it with another word), he says, "Smoke-a-motive!"
* Sitting in the back seat of the car while it's raining out, Jasper bursts into, "It's raining it's pouring, the old man is snoring..." completely unprompted, and then follows it up with "Rain, rain, go away, come again another day."
* Driving past the library, he looks out the window, and says, every word perfectly articulated, "I want to go to the library."
* His first temper tantrum consists of screaming, "I want more books! Want more books!" (For about an hour, unfortunately.)
* Quoting from his favorite book, he says, "Every nook and gully." (Or evewy nook and guwwy."
* We just started with a woman who speaks Spanish to them a couple of times a day; he spends pretty much the entire time correcting her - she says the word in Spanish, then he says, "No! It's a ____" in English.
* Sings happy birthday to Kittyman. (Just a great song, I guess.)
* There are a few words he doesn't have quite right, though. "Spicy" defines all food that makes him uncomfortable, including food that is too cold, or bubbly water. "I'm brave," means "I want to be picked up." And "It's Safe!" means he can't reach it and needs you to help him get it.

 

Thanksgiving and Halloween

New photos from Thanksgiving and Halloween are up on Flickr.  Below is one of our favorites - Gus eating Mashed potatoes for the first time ever. Enjoy!

Frustrated

Yesterday on the way home from an outing, Jasper said, "I need to go to the zoo."

When I replied that we were going home right now and not to the zoo, he sat silently for a few moments, then stated, "Frustrated."

Distracted, I didn't connect this to our previous conversation about the zoo, and asked, "What are you frustrated about?"  He replied, "Frustrated about the zoo."

Rolling, Eating and Running

We know we owe you all some video and photos, and those are coming soon. In the meantime, a few anecdotes:

- Gus is rolling rolling rolling all over the house, finding toys, then rolling about some more.
- Gus LOVES eating now. He has eaten an entire mashed up banana in one sitting!
- Jasper is talking in longer and longer sentences. Today he looked out the window and saw some joggers. He said, "They're running. They're running to to answer the phone. Ring ring!"
- Jasper really enjoys pretending and playing with toys. He demands that people "play with toys" with him now, and then he has his little monkey pretend to play patty-cake.