I have been begging mom to record some more stuff for my blog, but she seems to be pretty preoccupied lately. Anyway, today's a pretty normal day so I cornered Mom and told her we had to write NOW. (Fortunately, she humored me.)
So these are the things I want to tell you. I'll tell you what my favorite things to do are these days.
Okay, for one, I like to say, "Okay!" with lots of emphasis. It always elicits a great response from the hearing public. I like to talk on the phone a lot now, and I get great pleasure in listing all of the things I'm doing, or looking at, or want to do. Today I got to go to the beach, and play in the cold water with Mama and Adara. The "cold water" is one of my favorite things on earth. I ask for it that way, too, "coke aqua, pees!" I am very good at "asking nicely" as Mom says. I have the perfect inflection, and everything. Too bad we can't record me on here. Everybody thinks I'm pretty cute, if I may say so myself, when I want someone's attention (or I just like them and want to know them) I walk right up to them and get as physically close to them as possible and wait for their response. Today I even disarmed a teenage boy at the beach (which you should know is no easy task). He taught me a hand signal while mom wasn't looking, but she knew he did, because I kept repeating it, and smiling with pride at the new trick I'd learned. I'll show you when I see you.
I got to go to Trader Joe's and eat dried mango (I've returned to saying mango for the most part now, not pumpkin). The only change that's occurred over the past few days and has mom worried is that I've started to stutter a lot. I think it's just hard trying to get my mouth and pronunciation speed caught up to the speed of my mind, but mom is fearing it might be an emotional response to the environment. I told her to look up whether it was normal for a kid my age at this stage in his language acquisition to develop a stutter, but she hasn't done it yet (come on, get on it, Mom!).
I got to go to Maine for a week with Opie, and Theia Eurydice and Theio Josh, and Granny (on and off), and Papi (for a few days). It was endless fun. F R E E D O M. I could run in and out of the cottage as I pleased, through the grass, down to the beach, into the cold water. I could watch the boats and planes and birds and everything. No cars to worry about, no great dangers lurking. I have to say, I was a little too excited most of the time, and I kept trying to avoid taking naps which would make me even more exhaustive for everyone else. But we all survived, and Opie got a good taste of what Mom's life is like everyday (although it's always harder when you're on vacation and you don't have your usual resources to work to your advantage). Theia and Theio were a little worried about my level of discipline, but I'd like to tell them not to worry. Discipline is a tricky thing, and it varies from child to child. But for the most part Mom is all right, and know what she is doing. After all, she knows me more than anyone on the planet, and I've spent every single day of my existence with her (wow- that takes a lot of energy!). Yes. We've never spent even one day or night apart yet.
Oh, I also like to say "yes" a lot. And I say it very politely. Uncle Josh took a little advantage of my inclination to answer in the affirmative, though. He tried to tie my positivity up in a logical knot! (No fair!) He'd ask, "Do you like peaches?" "Yes." "Do you not like peaches?" "Yes." And he found that endlessly amusing... (But he's still my favorite. And quite frankly, I'm happy to say "yes" to anything he asks me.)
(But I did also begin to say "no way!" that week...which clearly came from Opie...)
I also tried to greet lots of people by saying, "hola", but I didn't realize that Maine has a very different population than Lynn, and people totally ignored me for the most part.
Mom got a great book out of the library that had my name written all over it (altough I didn't see it on the cover...). Anyway, it's called, "Hop, Skip, Jump" and I want it read to me at least fifty times a day. It's full of colorful pictures of toddlers doing things I like to do. An active and interactive book! Just what someone of my energy level needs. A book I can literally run to! They think of everything!
Well, that's about it for now. I hope you enjoyed the update on my life. I asked mom to take a picture of me, naked, when I came back from the beach, but she said that might be legally questionable (plus she doesn't want any predators getting the wrong idea), so I covered myself up with a book. But here it is: (Mom says we'll have to post it later.) So that'll be it for now.
Bye!
Adios!
So these are the things I want to tell you. I'll tell you what my favorite things to do are these days.
Okay, for one, I like to say, "Okay!" with lots of emphasis. It always elicits a great response from the hearing public. I like to talk on the phone a lot now, and I get great pleasure in listing all of the things I'm doing, or looking at, or want to do. Today I got to go to the beach, and play in the cold water with Mama and Adara. The "cold water" is one of my favorite things on earth. I ask for it that way, too, "coke aqua, pees!" I am very good at "asking nicely" as Mom says. I have the perfect inflection, and everything. Too bad we can't record me on here. Everybody thinks I'm pretty cute, if I may say so myself, when I want someone's attention (or I just like them and want to know them) I walk right up to them and get as physically close to them as possible and wait for their response. Today I even disarmed a teenage boy at the beach (which you should know is no easy task). He taught me a hand signal while mom wasn't looking, but she knew he did, because I kept repeating it, and smiling with pride at the new trick I'd learned. I'll show you when I see you.
I got to go to Trader Joe's and eat dried mango (I've returned to saying mango for the most part now, not pumpkin). The only change that's occurred over the past few days and has mom worried is that I've started to stutter a lot. I think it's just hard trying to get my mouth and pronunciation speed caught up to the speed of my mind, but mom is fearing it might be an emotional response to the environment. I told her to look up whether it was normal for a kid my age at this stage in his language acquisition to develop a stutter, but she hasn't done it yet (come on, get on it, Mom!).
I got to go to Maine for a week with Opie, and Theia Eurydice and Theio Josh, and Granny (on and off), and Papi (for a few days). It was endless fun. F R E E D O M. I could run in and out of the cottage as I pleased, through the grass, down to the beach, into the cold water. I could watch the boats and planes and birds and everything. No cars to worry about, no great dangers lurking. I have to say, I was a little too excited most of the time, and I kept trying to avoid taking naps which would make me even more exhaustive for everyone else. But we all survived, and Opie got a good taste of what Mom's life is like everyday (although it's always harder when you're on vacation and you don't have your usual resources to work to your advantage). Theia and Theio were a little worried about my level of discipline, but I'd like to tell them not to worry. Discipline is a tricky thing, and it varies from child to child. But for the most part Mom is all right, and know what she is doing. After all, she knows me more than anyone on the planet, and I've spent every single day of my existence with her (wow- that takes a lot of energy!). Yes. We've never spent even one day or night apart yet.
Oh, I also like to say "yes" a lot. And I say it very politely. Uncle Josh took a little advantage of my inclination to answer in the affirmative, though. He tried to tie my positivity up in a logical knot! (No fair!) He'd ask, "Do you like peaches?" "Yes." "Do you not like peaches?" "Yes." And he found that endlessly amusing... (But he's still my favorite. And quite frankly, I'm happy to say "yes" to anything he asks me.)
(But I did also begin to say "no way!" that week...which clearly came from Opie...)
I also tried to greet lots of people by saying, "hola", but I didn't realize that Maine has a very different population than Lynn, and people totally ignored me for the most part.
Mom got a great book out of the library that had my name written all over it (altough I didn't see it on the cover...). Anyway, it's called, "Hop, Skip, Jump" and I want it read to me at least fifty times a day. It's full of colorful pictures of toddlers doing things I like to do. An active and interactive book! Just what someone of my energy level needs. A book I can literally run to! They think of everything!
Well, that's about it for now. I hope you enjoyed the update on my life. I asked mom to take a picture of me, naked, when I came back from the beach, but she said that might be legally questionable (plus she doesn't want any predators getting the wrong idea), so I covered myself up with a book. But here it is: (Mom says we'll have to post it later.) So that'll be it for now.
Bye!
Adios!
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