Matt Liz Megan & John Our Family

I posted a list of his first words almost a year ago: http://therickabys.com/blog/2011/05/30/johns-becoming-a-little-talker/ But I thought an update would be good. He actually talks pretty much constantly at home even though he’ll hardly say a peep around anybody else. There’s no way to list all of his words, but here are a few of the phrases he’s been using lately.

• Me do it.
• How do dat? (used when he wants to understand how to work just about anything)
• Mines (even though he’s using it wrong, he does seem to have picked up on adding an “s” to the end of words to make them possessive)
• Go innit.
• Turn light on. (or off)
• Right day. (right there)
• Chamee. (change me)
• See Moogie, see Poogie. (every time we’re getting ready to go to church)
• Mommyup! (we’re not sure exactly what this one means. He says it over and over when he’s upset, but not necessarily when he wants to be picked up. I’m open to suggestions.)

He’ll try to repeat just about anything we say, especially Megan. Last week I was changing a poopie diaper and I said to him “oh, you must have eaten something green” and he said “somefing geen.”

Let’s see, it’s not quite lunch time and John…

• Pulled my new phone out of my pocket, put it in the box is came in and said “safe”
• Figured  out how to unlock the phone and screamed for five minutes when I took it away. I asked him if it broke his heart and he said “yes.”
• Played with his “phone” and put it in the case I have for mine.
• Disassembled the fort I built for him.
• Insisted on having the light off.
• Sat in my lap, bumping my arm around so I can’t click the mouse on anything I want. Apparently this is quite funny.
• Figured out how to use the remote to stop and play the CD player.
• Pretended to sleep in Mommy and Daddy’s bed.
• Harassed the cat.
• Poked around in Megan’s room.
• Played the piano.
• Found a set of 3D glasses that came in a magazine a while ago.
• Played with Matt’s pinpressions (one of these things)
• Carried his step stool all over the house to check things out.
• Pulled everything out of a drawer in the bathroom.
• Found his yogurt bowl from snack on the kitchen counter and smeared yogurt all over his face.
• Tried playing with the coffee pot.
• Gave himself an ice shower from the refrigerator’s icemaker. Came and told me “ice come out”. Well, yeah, it does that.

And now he’s running around the house with an old set of keys. I’m exhausted just being in the same house with him.

We have a little toy house that came with three blocks. A baby, a mommy and a daddy. They fit in the top of this house and when you push the block in, it sings a little song depending on which one you put in. The baby one sings a song that ends with “shhh… baby’s sleeping.” At that point John took it out and put it in his bed. Then found a stuffed animal to put in there with it.

A little bit later I wrapped his baby doll up in a blanket and he put it in his crib too.