Misunderstandings
Evan is at that cute age of totally misunderstanding things.
Examples:
Me: Oh, what is daddy making? Soup?
Evan: Yes. Chicken Little Soup.
Me: You mean Chicken Noodle?
Poor Chicken Little.

After church...
Me: What did you do in Sunday School?
Evan: We sang songs.
Me: How did they go?
Evan: Drive in your car, hands on the steering wheel, and keep your eye on the fries.
Me: You mean the prize?
Evan: Yeah, prize.
Fries are important too.

And, he is making some leaps in logic.
After his friend pushed him:
Evan (crying loudly): "A" pushed me!!
Me: Well, are you OK? You look like you're OK.
Evan: No, I am not OK! (crying some more)
Me: Do you want to talk about it?
Evan: crying.
Me: Why are you crying so much?
Evan: He is my best friend. But when he pushes me, it makes me think that he is not my best friend anymore.
Me: Oh, I'm sorry.
Later:
A: Evan, you're my best friend?
Evan: No. My mommy is my best friend.

In the van...
Me: You can have this lollipop after you put your seat belt on.
Evan: How about right now?
Me: No, after you put your seat belt on.
Evan: But mommy, in the Chicken Little book that daddy read me yesterday, Chicken Little was getting into the car, and he got to eat his lollipop before he put his seat belt on.
Me: Wow, it said that? What a relevant book.

Isaac
16 months.
Isaac is such a smart baby. I get to brag, right? He learns so much from the daycare kids.

When it's time to go inside, he sits down in the doorway to take off his shoes, just like the big kids. Then I take off his shoes and ask them to put them away. He always takes just one shoe, carries it to the closet, opens the door, and throws it on the floor inside. Then he claps for himself and says, "yaaaay."

In the kitchen, I'll say it's time to wash hands, and he immediately goes beside the refrigerator and tries to pull out the step ladder. When we wash hands, he says, "wa wa wa wa," for "wash."

He can do the signs for: water, milk, more, eat, book, dog, cat, bird, all done. He made up his own sign for tired! Whenever I ask if he is tired, he takes his index finger and wipes the side of one eye, wiping down. He does it every time, and I'm not sure where he got it. But I don't think this means he is tired, it's just what he does when he hears the word tired.

He says the following words: more, please ("eeez"), night night, hewo (hello), hi, bye bye, dada, mama, Eya (Evan), ba (bird), ka (kitty), da (dog), wa (wash), ma (milk), ba (book), a-da (all done), wow-a-wow (round and round), ta-ta (thank you), he-go (here you go).

He is good at saying, "what" with his expressions. When we read books together, he will point at a picture, turn around, and stare at my lips. He loves Barney's Wheels on the Bus book. On the first page, he pointed at the wheel over and over and over again so that I'd repeat the words, and that's how he first said, "wow-a-wow." In his Ernie book, Ernie says "hello" on every page. Isaac would point at the page again, turn around, and stare at my lips, and I'd read it again. He did this about 12 times, and then said, "hewo." Now he is obsessed w/ the girl in Barney's book who says, "Can I sit with you please?" He makes me read it over and over. I imagine it will be awhile before he can say that!

When I tell him that someone is sleeping, he puts his head to the side and snorts, trying to snore. He started to do this because one day, I said the baby was sleeping. I put my hand to the side and rested my face on my hands. He then removed my hand and put his hand under my face, then made the snoring noise.

He now goes down for his nap the same time as the other kids. First I put the two-year-olds down in Evan's room, and Isaac goes in there with me. I pull the mats out while the kids are picking out their books. Anytime a mat comes out, Isaac plops down on it, lies down, and makes very loud, exaggerated snoring noises. It's so cute, I hate to make him get up.

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