I’m Beautiful Like Me.

As I mentioned in my last post, Buddha’s vocabulary is really growing. He’s also really good at identifying body parts, the most recent he’s learned being his eyebrows. The video is hilarious; he cracks us up wiggling them up and down.

Watch those eyebrows! Buddha, Daddy and Ginger 11/28/2008

He’s a thrill to watch these days. He’s trying to count and can say “one,” “two,” and “three” but he tends to get fixated on one of those while counting. Lately, it’s three. He doesn’t seem to favor any color, but he will group things by color (particularly those gears from Gramma and Grampa). He adores his sister and will mimic her every move - sometimes not so great! He’s going to sleep more swiftly these days, even requesting “night-night” as early as 6:30pm! He only nurses for about 45 minutes a day now, typically divided into 3 sessions (morning, night and occasionally at nap time). When he’s finished nursing before bed, he reaches for the crib and says “night-night.” He likes his hand to be held as he’s falling asleep, though. And yes, we indulge him. After all, it’s sweet and before long, we’ll embarrass him. He likes to brush his teeth (and everything else with the toothbrush). He drives us crazy by pouring out the water from his cup (which is a big boy cup) onto the floor or couch or table and slurp the water up, yes, even from the rug. He loves the telephone and pushing the buttons, although he tends to play shy when there is actually someone on it trying to talk to him. He loves going out. He is very insistent at times about it, too. He’ll demand his sweater, socks and shoes and then start repeating “bye-bye!” in a very stern voice. He’s obsessed with the light switches in the house. If we’d let him, he’d dismantle everything in the entire house and then throw it. My little quarterback-in-training!

So here’s a list we’ve compiled of words he knows. It is most certainly an incomplete list.

People
Mama
Daddy
Joy
Honey!
Hi Buddy! (it’s what he calls my brother, Big Rob)
Oma

Food
cup (sounds like “guck”)
milk (sounds like “mup”)
water (sounds like “wah-wah”)
eat
bites
fries
more
hot
bowl (sounds like “bow”)
fork (there is no way I could figure out how to write what this sounds like!)

Greetings/Manners
hello
hi
hey
bye
night-night
please
thank you
excuse me (sounds like “mech may”)
bless you

Body Parts
eyes
ears
nose
teeth (sounds like “teese”)
arms
elbow (sounds like “belbow”)
knee
piggies
toes
shoe (sounds like “hues”)
sock (sounds like “ock”)

Miscellaneous
up
down (sounds like “dow”)
on
off
sit
light
ball
book (sounds like “bup”)
baby
kitty
fish
glasses
clothes (sounds like “coze”)
home
bath
want
mine
rock (sounds like “ock”)
blocks (sounds like “bops”)
NO!

Phrases
What?
Boo!
You!
Alright!
C’mon
Again!
Whoa!
Ow!
Ew!
I got you!
I got it!
Ah, man!
Where’d it go?
There it is!
All done!
All gone!