this is my everyday dialogue with a two year old..

Every stage has been my favorite stage so far with Charlie. At first the little butter ball asleep on my chest was my favorite. Then the kicky squirmy guy playing discovering his hands for the first time. The rolly polly pudgy bulldog baby that loved to suck on his toes. The adventurous super fast crawling, that graduated into the crazy fast smegel crawl....to the walking, signing, super expressive, and obsessed with tennis toddler, to the 2.5 year old. His language has been steadily increasing since about 18 months, with a major explosion the past 4 months. He frequently talks in complex sentences and simply changes his tone to show us whether his sentence is a question, statement, command, and so forth.....

Here are some examples of the smiles he brings everyday:

1. Today after trying to take our usual family nap for over an hour, and no kids sleeping I got out of our bed and stated, that is it, no nap today, lets play.....about 30 minutes later Charlie came up to me and said..."mommy, you no nap?"

Me: No charlie, how can I nap if you and the baby are wide awake?"

Char: Oh, yeh thats right. mommy nap charlie, now?

Me: No charlie you missed that boat (meaning to say, your ship has sailed)

Char: walks over to pa in the kitchen, looks up at him so innocently and says, "missed my boat. where my boat go?

2. Upon driving past the reservoir in san mateo charlie says:

Char: What that mommy?

Me: That is a lake, sort of

Char: A Lake? Charlie swim in it?

Me: No, honey people can't swim in there.

Char: I go swim class, I can swim there

Me: Well, honey I know you go to swim class, you are a good swimmer (actually ever since you got his toes caught in the vent you have been a wimp about everything) But that is our drinking water.

Char: with the most amazed look ever, "we drink that water?"

Me: Yes charlie, we do.

3.

Char: Mommy?

Me: Yes charlie.

Char: where did the sun go

Me; It is up there honey, behind the clouds

Char: Behind the clouds? Why Not 

Me: sometimes the clouds block the sun, but the sun is still there

Char: Oh

4. this happens everyday all day

Charlie: Mommy, what that truck doing

Me: Um, I don't know, probably driving to work or back home.

Char: mommy, where that guy going?

Me: To the circus ( after the 100th time I start coming up with somewhat creative answers to humor myself)

Char; What circus

Me: SHIT

5. Charlie was going to the park with one of Kate's friends and all of us (my mom, me, and adam) gave char and this friend about a million safety tips. Finally as char was putting on his shoes I said

Me: Most importantly Char HAVE FUN.

Charlie: I'll try

6. While at an indoor play space this week charlie fell in love with a melissa and doug construction workers clothes outfit. He HAD TO HAVE IT and screamed so. 

Me: Wow, Charlie that looks neat, maybe for your bday,

Char: I want it NOW

Me: It costs forty dollars, I dont have forty dollars

Char: I have dollars.....(at which point at cracked up, where did this kid come from, in this day in time are we supposed to start giving allowance at 2?

After going back home I told my mom this entire story. Charlie of course overheard and runs up to me

Char: I have money in my bank (and then points to his owl piggy bank that our friends amy and corin got him from guatemala

Just last night I couldn't fall asleep because I was thinking of all the funny things that he said, but today of course I can't even remember them...but he picks up phrases that adam and I say all the time and they are adorable coming from this little man.

things like:

OH MAN

Whatcha got there?

Oh yeh, that's right!

Is that beer, daddy?

It is fun!