pride n joy

bursting with love for my big talker today.
he said some of the cutest things-- and made me melt more than a few times. i never understood the expression about 'loving someone so much it hurts' as much as i do now. no offense to my dearly loved husband-- but this kid has got me swooning. i can't imagine adoring another one the way i do him-- just being honest. i guess over time it will happen somehow.
he decided that running around in his diaper and socks was much preferable to wearing clothes today.
he has a little bus at gramsy's that he rides on all around the house. today he kept saying, "sis-chin drive the bus...up high!" over and over again. i finally turned around to look at him, and he was standing on it, bending over to steer. the cutest little nakey boy. i wish i'd gotten the camera.
at one point, he grabbed his latest friend, rafa (one of my old teddy bears), lifted the seat on the bus, and said, "look, rafa, nothing!" usually there is some kind of little toy or treasure stashed in there. but apparently today, it was empty.
we played our own version of "I Spy" out the window of gramsy/poppy's dining room. we called it "i see". we saw a lot of fun stuff. icicles, snow, driveway, bird bath, street, stroller, sled, mommy's honda... and somewhere in his mind's eye, a dumper truck...
he then picked up my cell phone, held it up to the window and said, "phone see geese...crows." we had just finished reviewing that the crows outside were not the same as geese.
when he accidentally found 'daddy' in my contacts list in my phone, and i hit 'end' so he wouldn't accidentally erase any numbers, he said, "tiny daddy...back." meaning, 'i want that tiny picture of daddy back!'
yesterday he had his first official haircut (after all of my failed attempts to neaten it up/butchering it), courtesy of our awesome friend Jennifer! well, today he was wheeling rafa around in his (seth's old) wheel barrow. he'd found a clothes pin, and next thing i knew, he was in the wheel barrow w/rafa, giving the bear a haircut. it was the cutest thing ever. and he assured me that it didn't hurt. he said, "kip hair rafa. kip, kip, kip."
and while i was changing his diaper, he informed me that poppy has a tanker truck, a gas tank, and a diesel truck, all in one long run-on sentence.
he's the energizer bunny these days when it comes to language. he's discovering how to put words together like crazy. it's so fun to be part of that world and to try to understand what's going through his mind at all times. i think i have a pretty good handle on it, but then he always finds a way to surprise me with another level of comprehension!
and this was all during what was supposed to be his naptime...which finally happened around 2pm. poor exhausted mommy needed a nap too.
he's also taken a big interest in climbing this week. he climbs up on chairs, saying, "kwime a wadder." again and again and again... his imagination is flourishing, and he likes to say that his stuffed animals 'see' and 'hear' things, and shows them things like the christmas tree, ornaments, etc... saying, "look, frosty, red ball!" then he'll report back to me: "frosty sees a red ball!!" "doggie hears a siren!"
he is becoming addicted to the cartoon Caillou, and requests them by episode title on Youtube. Among his favorites is 'Caillou's Road Trip'. So now when we're in the car, he pretends to be on "Christian's Road Trip". it's hilarious.
i just can't get enough of him. and every time he lets me hold him, snuggle him, or kiss him, i just want to bottle up those moments and breathe them in before they're gone. i cherish our final days together of his 'only child'-hood.
will post pics hopefully soon...