Spore Quote

Ben:  Push the love button! Push the love button!

The Forest

I love eavesdropping on the kids while they are playing.  Here’s a conversation they had while playing Star Wars in the yard while I was working on our chicken coop in the garage.

Ben “The Stormtroopers are coming, hide!”

Ethan “I see Darth Vader, he’s in the forest!”

Ben “That’s why he said ‘Use the Forest, Luke’”

Ethan ‘Not Forest, FORCE.  Use the Force”

Ben “Lookout, he’s using the Forest!”

Hungry Dinosaur

Ethan was playing with a dinosaur and making it eat things just now. As he started to pretend to eat Ben’s back, Ben yelled “Hey I’m not vegetation!”. Just another thing I never thought I’d hear one of my kids say!

The Origins of Zoboomafoo

While watching the opening credits of Zoboomafoo

Ethan: This is the part where they find Zoboo

Me: Oh yeah?

Ethan: Yeah. They found him and broke him and built a robot and put his fur back on and now he can talk.

A young politician

Me: Why is Jamie crying

Ethan: Ben was playing rough with Jamie

Me: Ben, were you playing too rough with Jamie?

Ben: Well…I didn’t see me do it…

Poop and Boots

All of our kids are super adorable and say cute (but sometimes gross) things. Jamie is particularly fun lately since she is busy learning so many new words and things. I LOVE that her new words of the morning were poop and boots which she kept saying over and over when I was changing her diaper!

2 new words today

My little talker is adding to her list of words today. First she kept pulling up and down the legs of her pants and saying legs and then just pointed and said fish when I was feeding the fish. Wonder what words are next?

What Jamie can say at 16 months old:

Here is what the babycenter says about 16 month olds language development and here is the info on 17 months (Jamie is almost 17 months and changing so fast lately).

I love that our daughter talks a lot more than her brothers did as babies. I’m not sure if she is an early talker but, compared to her brothers at her age, she says a lot of words. I’m not good at keeping baby books now that I have 3 kids so I’m going to try to list all the words she has said as of today:

Daddy (most popular word), ma-ma/mommy, dog, up, down, bottle, Casey, mouth, eyes, nose, no, nice, pretty, feet, shoes, ouch, boo-boo, juice, please, yum, ball, uh-oh, baby, doll, bye, hi, belly, duck (& quack), Maggie, book, hello, wheee (going down slide), squeak, and back. Then there are some of the ones she has only said once or twice, like Grandma!

All in the family

“I made a kid poopy and a daddy poopy and they’re in the potty!” Ben said this tonight (9-18-07) but Ethan also used to make “families of poopy” all the time when he was a little younger. It’s very funny when they go through the same weird phases.

I needed to add to this post after last night (9-28-07), Ben made another poop in his little potty and said “I made a double poopy! A big worm and a little worm and they’re snuggling up together!”. He was so excited and proud.

The strange kid

I’ve started a new ritual when I put the boys to bed where I ask them what good things they did today and what their favorite part of the day was. Just questions to get them thinking about positive things from each day and also get them thinking about good things they can do the next day. I also decided we should record excerpts of these conversations in a diary. I bought a new hard cover spiral bound book (so it folds over nice for Ethan and Ben to draw in) for recording these entries. On Wednesday night Ben fell asleep early on the couch so it was just Ethan and myself talking about his day at school…

Ethan - “Well, there’s a kid at school who doesn’t come a lot, but was there today”

Me - “Oh did you make friends with him?”

Ethan - “Well he’s kind of strange” (He uses “well” all the time when he’s being serious)

Me - “How is he strange?”

Ethan - “He’s kind of spread out…I don’t want to say he’s fat…but he’s skinny too. He’s a skinny fat kid…”

He continued to elaborate on this conundrum, but I was having a hard time keeping myself from laughing at this point. I find it so hilarious to hear kids’ perspectives on things. I’m going to continue keeping our nightly journal and I look forward to hearing some more insights from Ethan and Ben.

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