Potty talk

This past Thursday, Jonah was home for a few hours with Daddy while Mommy went out and did an errand. Apparently, big stuff happened! Literally! Jonah told Sam he had to go poopy and he wanted to go on the potty. Sam brought him into the bathroom, put him on his potty (with diaper on) and Jonah asked for some privacy. Then, he proceeded to go poop on the potty! When Sam came in to check on him he was reaching for toilet paper, saying, "too much paper!"
Since then, every time he has to go poop, he asks to go on the potty (still with diaper on-- we haven't gotten completely brave yet!)

Person Places and Things

Jonah has an uncanny ability to remember places. Here are a few examples:
-- Driving on the street that leads to a big playground, he says, "Too cold (for) playground".
-- Walking past the ATM machine, he says, "Mommy get money in machine".
-- Driving away from our house he says, "Bye bye home" and when getting close to home on the return he says, "Home!"
-- Driving or walking near library he says, "Jonah library!" "See fishees!"

-- Driving past T station, he says, "Jonah go on train!!!"

From one to two to three word sentences...

"only daddy drinks poffee (coffee)"

"only daddy sharp knife"

"daddy sit on bike. go work".

"daddy touch ocean...jonah touch ocean"

"stars blinking" (in store)

"sit in car short time"

"daddy/mommy help you"

"sit on stool"

"lights turn green!!!"

"park too cold."

"1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10!"

"more karaide" (parade)

"not in mouth, mommy take away!" (about something that shouldn't be in his mouth)

Stuff we've been up to:

-- Davis Farmland (Sterling, MA) for petting zoo and water park. Jonah loved the animals, but held onto mommy for dear life at the water park. He didn't like all that water "in eyes".

-- Trip "going on train" downtown on the T. Jonah loved the ride so much he didn't want to get off and as soon as we were off was asking to get back on the train. He still asks to go on the train every time we drive past Alewife T station (and knew it was a train station even before we ever took a train there!)

-- Trip to Ogunquit beach (Maine) for Memorial Day weekend. He wanted to touch the sand and water but was very tentative. Wanted daddy to do it first.

-- Various local playgrounds: Jonah is starting to climb up the ladders by himself and slide down slides by himself. He likes to walk across the "wiggle wiggle" bridge.

"Jonah Do!"

"Daddy's juice" (pointing to wine bottle)
"Mommy tush" (while mommy is getting dressed)
"machine" (lawn mower next door)
"op-nee window" (open window)
"take home" (about toy in store he wanted).
"tankyu" (thank you) when we bought the toy, said to store clerk).
"bye bye home" (driving away from home)
"More adar" (more stars- when making stars out of playdoh)
"Mommy hair"
"Fire hot!"
"Birdie Tweet Tweet"
"No, all done!"
"More cando!" (more candle)
"Basemnt" (basement)
"Bye Bye Peens" (saying good bye to his penis when we put diaper on)
"twaitwax" (train tracks)
"MisRaja" (Mister Rogers)
"Noise"
"Ububu" (umbrella)
"Bye Bye AnnaJoan" (anna and jon, our neigbors)
"Sit ca" (sit in the car)
"motoca" (motorcycle)
"Big truck"
"Back sweep" (wants to go back in crib)
"Twinka twinka" (twinkle twinkle)
"No ticko" (no tickle)
"Mail truck"
"coffee hot"
"Adar" (a star)
"trianguh" (triangle)
"hurko" (circle)
"mo angie peese!" (more orange please!)

Kids say the darndest things

While putting Jonah to bed each night, I sing him the song from "Dumbo", "Baby Mine". It usually lulls him right into la-la land. Tonight, for the first time he started to repeat words in the song, like "eyes", "baby", etc.

He told me today, "put playdoh away". I think this is one of his first real sentences. Yesterday, he went up to Sam's feet and pointed, saying, "Daddy's toes" and then to his own toes, "Jonah's toes".

Jonah's grandparents, "Tata" and "Saba" (my parents) came to visit this weekend. We had so much fun together. We went to a petting zoo with bunnies, baby chicks, baby goats, a pony and baby alpacas. Jonah loved to pet them all. Then, we heard a live band at the same farm, where he really enjoyed dancing.

Jonah has a new babysitter Melissa ("Lissa") that he adores. She stays with him while mommy takes a water color painting class on Mondays. He likes her necklace with the stars on it ("a-dar, pretty, nice") and also likes her "baselets".

The other day when it rained, Jonah told us "naining, umbella".

Paint and Play-Doh Please!

This morning was an artistic one. After breakfast, we went to Jonah's room and he pointed at the play-doh, wanting to play with it. He wasn't sure what to call it, but as soon as I named it for him, he repeated, "Pay doh!" We rolled it, cut out stars ("dah") and had a lot of fun, even when Jonah rubbed it in his hair when he was "all-done!"
Immediately following this, he asked for "paint!" so we pulled out the finger paints and he went to it. He must be getting ready for the art class we signed him up for next week.
His language has grown tremendously over the past month.
He now has mini sentences like these:
"No, mommy" (all time favorite)
"No more cereal" (or oatmeal or whatever he's eating).
"Paint house" (saw people on TV painting a house)
"Park 'Neek" (we played at the park with his friend Monique)

MORE PLEASE!

Jonah's first two-word combination of words is "more please!"

He said it while asking for more cereal from Daddy's bowl.