Ezra-isms

Ezra has been talking up a storm.  It's like someone flipped a switch and our mostly babbling baby has turned into a sentence speaking genius. (Okay, I might be a little biased.)

• "More (fill in the blank).  Yes?"
• This is how he asks for things.  And when he says "yes" he nods.
• "Mow-en it"
• Not sure how he came up with this one but this means "open it"
• "Bloun choc-o-let muck"
• Brown chocolate milk.  He is very deliberate in his pronunciation of chocolate.
• "Mommy-chino!  Mmmm!"
• This is what he said the other day when I got a frappuccino from Starbucks.
• "Help you"
• This means he wants help.  Instead of "help me" he says "help you"
• "Hold you"
• Again, instead of saying "hold me" it's "hold you"
• "Hah-veet"
• When he wants to give us something...  "Mommy hah-veet" means he wants me to have something.
• "Oh, no! Do?"
• This is short for "Oh, no!  What did you do?"  I think I said this once ever; when he took all the diapers out of the drawer we keep them in and tossed them around the living room.
• "Jeffy"
• This is the name of Jessie from Toy Story

Recently he has discovered a love for powder.  I read in a magazine that the best way to get sand off wet, sticky feet was to keep a little container of powder in your beach bag.  Boy, they weren't kidding.  That stuff is like magic.  So anyway, I've been using it on his feet when he comes home from daycare, since he loves the sandbox.  He has started to ask for me to put it on his hands and then he rubs them together and nods and says "Mmmm" because it must feel good.

He also loves freezee pops.  Usually we cut them in half and he chomps them down.  He has even started requesting specific colors.  His favorite part is the juice that collects in the bottom of the plastic.  He will sometimes pull the popsicle out of the plastic just to drink the juice and then wants us to put it back.

A ritual when we leave the daycare each day is naming colors on vinyl play mats.  They have a few foam mats that are covered in colored vinyl, like the ones gymnasts use.  They are 4 different colors and he will go stand on by it and we will recite colors and he'll go stand on the right color.  We always cheer for him and lately he has been getting them all right.  See what I mean about him being a genius?

-Kara