Chatterbox

Well, we've definitely moved past just new vocabulary to lots of phrases and sentences.  I love hearing what Josiah comes up with.  It's definitely nice to know what he wants, and I know that's a big reason why he hardly ever has temper tantrums, since he is able to communicate so well with us.  On the other hand, it also means he's quite opinionated on everything, and we have to remind him that just because he can say it, doesn't mean he gets it. :)  Here's a sampling of what we hear a lot:

"I love you THISSSSSSSS Much"
"I love you a hunch a bunch" (what I used to say at his age)
"Come on Mommy! Let's go!" 
"Come on Daddy!  This way!"
"Ok, now Mommy's turn.  Now Daddy's turn.  Now Josiah's turn!" (He loves taking turns with us, and getting us to do what he's doing)
"What's it's name?" (He knows everything by name: people he just met, trains, types of vehicles, cartoon characters, whatever, it's crazy how much he can distinguish. Speaking of which, does anyone know the names for the characters on Yo Gabba Gabba - because he keeps asking me and I have no idea!)

"What's that?"
"That's for girls.  Not Josiah"
"Hey ______, share!" (He knows that other kids are supposed to share with him, whether he does or not)
"Want some lunch."
"Baby's crying.  Ok baby?"  (He hears a baby cry even if they are 6 rows away in a store)
"Do it later?  Maybe tomorrow?" (Whenever the answer is no)
"One more time.  Okay, last one" (When he's been told that's enough)
"How about knees."  (When told to sit down, and he negotiates that it's okay to be on his knees)
"Want some bread? Okay. Over there.  Josiah's piece.  Put in toaster.  Put butter on it."  (He understands -and narrates - the whole process)   If it was eggs, he says "Eggs.  Crack it.  Stir it up.  Dump it.  It's cooking." 
"There's a big yellow bulldozer!  There's a red truck!  There's a white one!  School bus!  Another one!  There's a green car.  They're racing.  Dump truck.  Black jeep. Come on dump truck, let's go!"   (Driving down the road, he narrates EVERYTHING!)
"That's Mommy's chair, and that's Daddy's?  That's Grammy's.  That's Gramps' chair.  This Josiah's chair."  (pointing to where we all usually sit at dinner). 

I could go on and on...I never thought my 20 month old son would be talking my ear off!  It's like having a teenage girl (only less drama!)!

Not forgotten

This blog has been sadly neglected although I do post tons of updates on Facebook!  If you're not already my "friend" there, add me! :)  I will post on here again eventually... but it's hard to keep it all up!

If you insist...

Where have I been?   Well... potty training for starters!  That's right, my crazy little boy has decided he's ready to be a big boy.  I had NO intentions of starting this at 18 months old, but it just kinda happened, and I figured I better go with the flow ~ ha! I guess that has more than one meaning!  I had put him on the big potty one time before his bath just for the heck of it a few weeks back, and he didn't do anything, but he asked for toilet paper and then got off and said "flush it" so that was that.  Well the next night, he remembered, and he insisted on "pee pee polly?"  so I tried again, and what do you know?  He peed!  So then he started asking every time I changed his diaper and the rest is history.

Now we're well into it and overall, he's doing GREAT!   We're taking it slow and not forcing the issue... I mean seriously, the boy is only 19 months old!  But he's really getting the hang of it.  He goes pee-pee right away everytime we put him on the potty (typically about 5-6 times a day right now), and has even done the other stuff a couple of times now!  I still can't believe how content he is to sit on his little froggy-potty for like 20 minutes and just read or play with trains. He'll hate me for sharing all this one day, but it's so cute, he even looks down and says "Come on pee-pee, come on!"  :)

I'd really like to just take a few days and do nothing but potty training... let him run naked, whatever, because right now it's kinda hit or miss.  He still has wet diapers, but yet he's very interested and does a lot on the potty... but he's a little confused if we're out somewhere and he says "poopy" and then I don't take him to the potty.  So I think we need to just go ahead and try to seal the deal.  Crazy Crazy.  Where did my baby go???