Unintended Lessons

In trying to prepare Z for potty training, I have been trying to say "poo poo" whenever I think he's... well, poo pooing. This has not been very effective for two reasons: 1. Z doesn't really poop all that much and 2. he passes gas a lot. The result is that he now thinks passing gas is "poo poo." I came to this realization last night when he "made bubbles" in the tub and looked at me with a grin and said "poo poo." Great, I thought, that failed miserably.

Another unintentional lessons I have taught Z is the word (and hand motion) "Stop!" Which usually comes out as "Bot!" "Top!" or sometimes "Stop!" followed by laughter... Needless to say, this gets said many times throughout the day and clearly I am not being taken seriously.

In other new word news, he now says "outside" like "ow-siiiiii-d." He can make the animal sounds for a dog, sheep, snake, cow, owl, and lion/tiger. And he can point to his nose, eyes, mouth, teeth, ears, hair, belly button, and feet.

He seems to be learning new words every day, and can point out about 10 or 15 words in his First 100 Words book. Some new words are

Diaper (my new favorite, because it sounds like "Di-poo")

Shoes, which for some reason he says by blowing out through his nose and following with an "n" sound. It's kindof strange, especially when he is congested

I love you, which is usually "I wah wu" or "I luv"

This word stuff is probably not that interesting to most people, so I apologize. In other other news, he loves the iphone, particularly youtube videos of his favorite songs like Old McDonald and Twinkle Twinkle. When he watches the twinkle twinkle video he flaps his little arms like he's trying to fly. It is the sweetest thing ever!

He is all about letters and numbers. He pretends to count to five with you, and when you start it, I swear his eyes light up like he's just seen or heard the most wonderful thing on earth.

He still flashes his cheesy grin on command, which I think, is hilarious

 Oh and his upper molars are coming in, which has made brushing important as ever ;)