Jack is quickly approaching 2 1/2. He's a really remarkable little being these days, becoming more and more independent, opinionated, at times intense, and increasingly affectionate. Most of all he is more and more verbal and he really does keep us in stitches with the things he says, and the way he says them. His current "speech differences" only add to the effect. As a general rule, initial-s sounds come out as "D":, initial-f sounds come out as "P" and initial-c sounds come out at "T". Once you get all that straight I personally think he's very easy to understand...
Here are some of the things he's said recently to make us laugh...
"Her have a cute little foot!"-- referring to Corydon's feet. He loves her feet and likes to pick them up and show them to us. He expresses his undying love for Cor at a ratio of about 1:5, compared to how often he says he loves us.
"look, look...." This is the intro to about everything he says recently. This can be followed up with "...there's an airplane" or "..I have a jet engine in my playroom" or, as this evening, "look, look, I'm cute!". yes, yes you are.
While brandishing his used kleenex towards me, repeatedly, from the backseat of the car: "tee, mommy, see, I got a lot of boogers! tee???" Over and over until I turned to look and compliment his production.
"You have really long arms" "Your'e really strong" "You can do it, I know you can"-- some of his recent repertoire of compliments. He is very very earnest about his compliments, and it is very touching.
"Fthwee!!!" Said with pride while holding up 3 fingers. A new skill, with which he is quite enamored. The really cute time was when NPR was playing an excerpt from MLK's "I have a dream" speech, and after hearing MLK say "Free at last", Jack holds up his 3 fingers joyfully and shouts "three at last!!" He is frickking hilarious sometimes.
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