When 2.0 was born, I wondered what his little voice would sound like once he started to speak to me. What would he say? I have to admit that I thought I'd have this little person who spoke with perfect grammar right away and could articulate his thoughts to me eloquently. After working with toddlers in the past, you would think I'd know better.
Yesterday 2.0 and I were watching Finding Nemo. He loves the bright colors and the fish. I wonder sometimes if he thinks the television is an aquarium when we watch that movie. As we're watching, I ask him if he sees the orange fish. Out of nowhere, he squeals "Fishy!". He's never said that before. A little while later, as we played with his new Hot Wheels cars (because suddenly he loves those little cars), I pushed the car around making a 'vroom vroom' sound and he copied me exactly.
He's starting to put words together with what he wants and I'm loving and hating it.
"Nathan, do you need a nap?"
"Yeah."
"Nathan, do you need a new diaper?"
"Yeah."
"Nathan, do you love Mommy?"
"No."
*Sigh* That is exactly what I was waiting to hear.
When he gets up in the morning, I hear "Mommy! Mommy Mommy Mommy!" When he goes into the bedroom to get his father up, I hear "Coco! Coco Coco Coco!" when he finds the dog is still sleeping. He says "Daddy Daddy Daddy!" when we're going to pick up Nate from work. Right now he's mimicking the monkey sounds his daddy is making with one of his toys.
Now that he's mimicking everything we say...I guess I need to make doubly sure that there are no swear words dropped in his presence. I don't want to have to explain that to anyone.
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