Recently

Recently Timmy has learned a lot of new words. But there is a difference in these new words. We are not sitting and teaching him these words to help him name things so we know what he wants anymore: "Mom, Dad, Ball, Milk, Chocolate Milk." He is learning these words from outside sources, so they catch me completely by surprise. It's incredible.

On Monday I had lunch with Mom and Timmy right after preschool. Timmy was tired and hungry and generally whiny. He was going back and forth between cuddling up under my arm and throwing his crayons on the floor. One throw, he hit his hand on the table and because he was so tired it made him burst into tears. He told me, "Mooom, I'm soooooo saaaaaaaaaad!" I had heard this phrase from him before, when turning off his good night show to tuck him in, or some other obviously upseting situation... but just moments later the waiter put Timmy's Macaroni and Cheese infront of him. Timmy smiled and lit up and said, "Mom, I'm happy again!" and started eating! He's been telling us that different activities (Playing with Playdoh, going to Chuck E Cheese, going to Baba's, even taking a shower) are "so much fun!" for months, but this was the first time I heard him describe himself as happy. It made me very happy to see how easily his little world shifts back to happy after being sooooo saaaaaad too. :)

Another new word that I'm not in love with is "nothing" he is adorable when he says it, he shrugs his shoulders up and wrinkles his nose and smiles and says "uhm, nufing" but it gets him out of trying to explain again when I don't understand him telling me something the first time, and he's already telling me he's doing "nufing" at school!

Another cute new word is "Alwiiiiiiight." He says it in a cute but begrudging tone even when it's in response to doing something that he actually wants to do. "Timmy, let's play cars!" "Alwiiiiiiiiiiiight...." Tim particularly likes how he says sorry, and sometimes asks him to say "Sowwee Da" before doing something, just to hear him say it! Timmy is so silly with the word sorry. He will say it for almost no reason at all, unless he's actually done something that needs an apology! For instance I asked him if he knew where the remote was and he told me, "No, sowwwwwee Mom." Sometimes he'll even add, "It was an accident" to these uneeded appologies. "It was an accident" is also used to describe things that happen that he clearly did on purpose, but knew he shouldn't have. And getting him to say sowwee for something like that usually takes a little timeout!

We recently discovered that Timmy has a bunch of his favorite books memorized too. Tim was reading him Personal Penguin while tucking him in one night, and paused to cough, and Timmy finished the rest of the words from that page! When we tested it, we realized he knew every word in the book! Same for several other Boyton books and a few Curiuos George stories too. I have also found exactly one children's cd that doesn't drive me insane so far, so when Tmmy requests to hear "his songs" we listen to the same thing over and over again. During our commute home yesterday he asked for his music, but instead I turned the radio off and asked him to sing with me and what song we should sing. He literally asked me for song after song from the same order as the CD!

Speaking of our commute, Timmy now has a complete understanding of rush hour. Driving home last night he told me, "We go home, the lights are green and red, and we go fast and go slow and go fast and go slow" I couldn't believe it. I am glad that he has started to grasp this though, because for a few weeks he would beg me when we were in stand-still traffic, "Go fast Mom, please, please, please, please" repeatedly.