Some recent quips from Cameron:
After spilling his smoothie, I asked him how it happened. His response: "Gravity!"
"I got pointers on me" "I got moles" - both references to his nipples.
While eating his whole wheat gnocchi with pesto (so brownish lumps with green sauce): "More broccoli chicken please"
Cameron's word for yesterday or any day in the past: "Last day"
"I'm pointed with Jesse" (translation: I'm disappointed with Jesse) after Jesse licked the sock covering his stitches right off his leg (Jess had surgery earlier this year to have a tumor removed from his paw which fortunately was not cancerous and he recovered just fine except for the constant licking of the wound site).
Asking about our softball game the night before, "Was Daddy dressed in his umpirate costume?" No, Daddy was not an umpire nor a pirate - he was a softball player!
Cameron's underwear he was about to put on was inside out so he fixed it and turned it "inside in" as he called it.
When talking to our friend Lisa about her husband Scott, Cameron called him "your daddy" (instead of your husband). You could tell he was trying to figure out what the right word was because he looked at Scott and then back to Lisa like he was trying to figure out what to call him. As if that wasn't confusing enough, both boys sometimes call him "Uncle Scott" too since he is "Uncle Scott" to our good friends Ben, Abby & Lorelai
Cameron didn’t like that he had to share 1 of his 3 golf
balls w/ Nate so after giving 1 to Nate, he said “This is not enough” and threw
down his bucket with the two remaining balls and walked into the house saying
“Whatever”. He came back a couple
minutes later with a “ping ball” (ping pong ball) to trade for a golf ball. Very clever!
NATE
Nate also has some extremely cute sayings and boy does he talk! I don't remember Cameron talking himself to sleep at this age as much as Nate does. In fact, some afternoons Nate will talk for 2 hours before finally falling asleep for his nap.
Nate's word for music: "mucus"
When entering a room or wanting to know what's going on "What you doing guys?" - this was the first phrase that made me realize how much of his language development has been influenced by Cameron because this is the same phrase Cameron often uses in the same situation, but is not one Greg or I commonly use!
One day after he woke up from his nap, we could hear him through the monitor listing various family members ("Uncle Scott, Uncle Keith, Grandma, Grandpa, Cameron, Daddy, Mommy, Aunt Kali" etc and then he would go through the list again sometimes in different order and sometimes adding or omitting people).
"No, Daddy do it". Just like that Nate became a daddy's boy. He was always a mama's boy when he was little, but right around his second birthday he changed and suddenly he will only let Daddy do stuff for him if both of us are around (which I don't mind if it's something like changing a diaper!) Fortunately he still lets me help him if I am flying solo. Otherwise weekdays would be very long and agonizing!
Kids really do say the darnest things (fortunately most of what they have said so far is cute and not too offensive...)
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