Baking Fun

Cooking and baking have become a lot more fun (and time consuming) since Ishish has started helping. He likes to pour and mix the ingredients. We're still working on not cracking the eggs on the counter or licking the batter off our fingers. Here he's sporting the new apron he got for Christmas.

One Week

We've been telling Ishish what the days of the week are. Yesterday I asked him if he knew what a week was. Taking his silence as a no, I explained that it is seven days and that in seven days Grandma and Grandpa will be here! He really loves his grandparents so he seemed interested. I said, "They want to play with you all week! Won't that be fun?" I expected an immediate, delighted response. Instead he thought about it for a while and then asked, "Mama too?"

This picture has nothing to do with the story. It's just one from this week that I love!

Friends Update

Now when Ishish gets up in the morning he brings George, Esnug, and his friends over to the corner of the room, sets them up, and hangs out with them until I come in. He has them arranged in the proper way of course!

Earlier this week before he came over to get dressed he gave George and Esnug each a kiss. Wow... I think he's only kissed me a half dozen times!

Conversation snippets

With Ishish's increasing communication skills come a lot of statements that amuse me. Here are some of the most recent ones.

Me: Do you want to eat a snack or read a book before naptime?
Ishish: No. No nap. Playtime.

Ishish has learned the concept of bigger numbers:
Me: I'll give you two orange pieces, and the rest are for your lunch.
Ishish: I want one, two, three pieces Mommy!

Me: OK, I'll give you one more chance.
Ishish: Two more chances?

Last night before bed:
Me: Look, you get to wear your Green Bay Packers pajamas tonight!
Ishish: Yaaayyyy! [while clapping]

Conversations from when we were sick the last few days:
Me: I'll put diaper cream on, and it will feel better.
Ishish: No. No feel better.

Me: I can't do that now. Mommy's sick.
Ishish: No!

At his preschool they are working on potty training. That includes receiving an M&M for trying and two for success. When I'm in the bathroom Ishish sometimes says "Mama get two M Ms!"

Ishish hasn't quite figured out when we say different things so sometimes he just puts them together.
"Goodbye Mama. See you tomorrowThursdaybackhome!"

Friends

Since Ishish got his Dora, Boots, and Diego toy set at Christmas he has grown more and more attached to them. We all refer to them as his friends now. Shortly after Christmas he also asked for his "blue trick or treat car" and found it. I guess it's one of the cars I put in his pumpkin for Halloween? He has such a better memory than me! They travel around the house with him quite a bit and always have to be together.

Here they are in the "gas station".

They have to be in his bed for every naptime and bedtime and in this exact arrangement. As he explained it to me "Esnug Diego, George Dora Boots, Ishish blue trick or treat car" (no, he never abbreviates it to "car" or "blue car").

He will also occasionally line them up to "watch" him do different things, like have a snack.

I found this scene when I went in to get Ishish up the other morning. You can't see them here because they're next to George on his far side, but I thought it was adorable that he moved his friends over to read the book with him!