Telling Tales
And now for your reading pleasure, some recent Nathan stories:
Nathan didn’t wait until his second birthday to fully embrace his toddler-ness, and with it, every toy in site. “Mine!” or even better, NO – MINE!” started sneaking into his vocabulary early this year. They’ve taken such strong root that one morning when he bumped into his ridding horse while zooming around the house on his scooter, Nathan got off the scooter, went up to the horse and quietly said “no horsy, my scootah.” And later in the day when a little toy car drove into the box of legos – “No! Mine! My Legos!”
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When the first bad cold of the winter hit, Nathan stopped being interested in breakfast, and then he was only interested in oatmeal cookies for breakfast. So that’s what we gave him. As the cold ended, Nathan had to learn the hard lesson of “no cookies for breakfast.” After a week of asking first thing in the morning for “cookie?” followed immediately by the sad and then, as the week went on, authoritative statement of “no cookie fo bekfast” Nathan woke up one morning and asked Daddy for “lunch?”
“What do you want?” “Lunch.” “Are you asking me for lunch?” “Ja. No cookie fo bekfast. Lunch?” “OH. No, sorry, breakfast is a time of day. You can’t just ask for lunch so that you can have a cookie.”
Nathan is too smart for his parents.
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And finally, in the last week or so Nathan has started saying “I” as in:
“Mama, I foun a penny.” or “I did it!”
I can’t remember if that’s some developmental milestone, but I think it’s really exciting. Especially since “I want it” has not yet entered the collection of “I” phrases.