If he's frustrating me by dinking around and being goofy he'll stop, begin obeying and ask while fluttering his eyelashes, "Dat make you happy, Mommy?"
I bought a baby for him to "teach" potty training to (beginning next week) and he found it and said,
"Mommy, you sew dis beebee for me? Oh fank you Mommy! She so cyoooot! Oh she so cozy. What her name?"
Me: "I don't know, what is her name?"
E: "It's Samantha!"
Then commenced happy trotting over to find the blue stroller. He carefully laid the baby down so he could unfold it and then asked for help. When I unfolded it, he carefully strapped the doll in, and carefully pushed her around. He DOES have a nurturing side!
One day after letting my hair air-dry, E looked at me and said, "Mommy, your hair all crabelly." (He meant "cravelly" which is a made-up word in my family that should be in the dictionary. It means a combination of messy, disorganized, frustrated, general not-coming-together of things. i.e. The sheets upon the unmade bed were cravelled. or I feel cravelly when the house is messy.)
He adores Toy Story 3 and especially loves the part at the beginning with the runaway train.
He reenacts his Thomas the Tank Engine movies with the exact dialogue. That means he uses phrases like "Cranky was in disgrace" or "Thomas puffed up to Gordon and pulled him to safety". He will also exclaim "Bust my buffers!" He knows the words to the Thomas and His Friends song and will sing it periodically throughout the day.
If you ask him what his name is he'll say "Emerson" but if you ask him what his whole name is he'll say "Emerson Benjamin Christensen TO THE RESCUE!"
He calls the railroad crossing signal a "sing-ding-al". I can't bring myself to correct him because it's too cute.
I've been trying to teach him to say "No thank you" instead of "No way" but now he's just applied it to a yes answer of "Uh-huh Way" when he wants something.
He still can't say his L's so his sentences sound something like "No Mommy, Eave it uh-own." (Leave it alone) or "Oh no, it's Ost!" (It's Lost). The word I've had the most difficulty with is oil. He was looking for the oil car for his train and said to me, "Mommy, you know where the oyo is? The oyo is ost!"
3 comments:
So cute! I'm glad you wrote it all down so you won't forget. And, I don't know how other families get along without "cravelled"--it's such a useful word.
Oh my gosh! Your kids ARE big all of the sudden, and Emerson is ridiculously cute. I'm still laughing at his full name.
Also, maybe I've mentioned this before, but we have a made up word, too: shumpy. It's when you are sort of tired and ornery and grouchy but not for any good reason. Just... shumpy. The action associated with this word is a sort of scowl and shimmying of the shoulders in a hopeless way with slight grunting sound. "What's wrong?" "Nothing, I'm just shumpy."
You can use ours if I can use yours!
Hahahaha! I am still laughing! His exact dialogue is hilarious! They give up their little cute ways and words toooo soon. Brooke is like you in that she cannot bear to correct the cute pronunciations. Ericson called helicopter "pop-a ky" and octopus has been "pock-a-puss" forever. I LOVE THAT YOU TALKED ABOUT BEING CRAVELLY!!!It has been one of the most descriptive words in the fam for almost 50 years that I know of! Aunt Karen
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