Evan - 19 mos.

New Words
A few nights ago, Evan and I were going around the apartment saying goodnight to all the lights (turning them off), and I said, "night night, daddy" and waved at Jerry. Evan waved at him and said, "night night, da da."
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We were so excited! Evan has said "night night" before, and "dada" many times, but never together in one... sentence.
Yes, his first sentence.

Then tonight, I opened the refrigerator to get something, and he ran toward the food and said, "carrot!" and took a carrot out of the bag and started to eat it.

Later, he was in his high chair, and he saw me washing grapes, and he said, "a-ga! a-ga!" while looking at the grapes, and continued on saying it until I gave him his bowl of grapes.

When he was done eating, I said, "all done?" Usually he shakes his head "no" if the answer is no, or just looks at me if the answer is yes. Today, when I asked if he was all done, he shouted, "a-da!"

His very own potty
We bought him a potty. We actually bought him a bunch of new toys tonight, because he seems to have outgrown everything. So Evan watched Jerry take a pretend kitchen out of the box and put that together, then the vacuum sweeper, and a keyboard, and the Mr. Potato Head, and then the potty. We have never talked to him before about using the potty; we had just decided we'd casually put it in the bathroom, and if he chose to sit on it, then we'd start talking about it. Well, the potty was sitting out and Evan or Jerry hadn't said anything about it, and Evan was playing with his keyboard but having trouble holding it, so Jerry set it on top of the potty so that he could use it as a table. Evan objected to this. He took the keyboard off the potty as if angry at Jerry's decision to do such a thing, and then he sat on the potty. Jerry said, "that's where you go poop." Then Evan got up and ran to the bathroom, and pointed at the bathroom door, and said, "uh! uh!" So we moved the potty into the bathroom, and Evan sat on it (fully clothed), then jumped up and pointed at the toilet paper roll, which I handed to him, then he sat down and wiped himself with toilet paper for about five minutes. He then took the paper that he had tossed into his potty and put it in the big toilet and flushed it... this went on for quite awhile until I worried about it flooding, and stopped him. Overall, I'd say he's ready for the "toilet talk." We're on a mission to buy him a really good potty book.