Spoken by a Toddler

It's hard to believe we will have a three year old next month!

Xavier is so smart and is having complete conversations with us, usually about his desire for a donut, or request for not one, but "five" of whatever small piece of candy we give him.  I can't believe how much his speech has picked up in the last 6 months!  The best part of this age is listening to him speak his cute little toddler way, messing up the words as he goes, so we don't know what he's saying, but either acting out the words he wants to say or giving additional clues we understand to help him get his intent across.  I will miss it when he speaks clearly, so I'm trying to soak up every minute of this hilarious "mispronounced words" phase!  Some of our favorite phrases and conversations...

Regarding the broken ceiling fan in our room the repairman came out to fix:

X: (points to it) Fan spence

Me:  Fan what?  Fan spence?

X: Fan go wound and wound. Spence.

Me: Oh! Fan spins.

X: Yea. Guy fix it (shakes head).  Is bwoken.

Rocking in chair before bed with Steve:

S: (talking to Xavier about something random)

X: Top talking, Daddy.  Mommy's sweeping.

X: Daddy? (or Mommy?)

no reponse

X: Daddy? (or Mommy?)

no response

X: Seeeve? (or Honey?)

Neighbor kid yells over fence and asks Xavier to come over.

X: Can I go to Wiweey's (Riley's) house?  I'n a go to Wiweey's house.

Me:  Ask Daddy.  He's cooking us dinner and it may be ready soon.

X: *pouts and crosses arms while givng me the death look* OK, fine.

*stomps off to go inside to find Steve*

X: Daddy, can I go to Wiweey's house?

Steve: Go ask Mommy.

*comes back outside to me*

X:  I'm going to Wiweey's house.  Wiweey?! I'm coming over wight now!!"

Kid learns quickly!

Summer Days

The days are long, but summer days are longer.  I think that's how the saying goes, right?  We are about a month in to summer where the sun is up longer and so is our kid!  Fourth of July weekend was cool, but the heat and humidity have settled in and I feel like there's a wool blanket over my head right now!

Xavier is usually up around 7:30 or 8:00 on the weekdays, meaning he gets around 10 hours of sleep each night.  He still does an afternoon nap for about 2 hours.  We have recognized that lately, if we put him to bed later, he will in fact sleep later, until he gets his 10 hours of sleep!  This is amazing and great for weekends.  When he was a baby, it didn't matter what time he went to sleep, he always woke up at the crack of dawn and made up for lack of sleep during his mid-day nap.

We spend more time outside now, running through the water sprinklers, whether it's ours or the neighbors.  Xavier likes to play with his water table, and make his trucks and cars go up and down the ramps.  Xavier loves to be at home with us, he wants to ride his motorcycle big wheel, mow the lawn with the bubble mower, and if we let him, eat "peanuh buttah jeh-wey sanwich"s for every meal.

He helps me water our flowers, Xavier has his own watering can.  

And recently we've discovered that watermelon pops are a huge hit with us!  Just cut up a slice of watermelon, put it on a popsicle stick, and he's entertained for at least 10 minutes, and usually requests three more.

In evenings, when it cools off, we try to do a family bike ride.  But before he gets in his bike trailer, Xavier requests, "my cee-wee-oll, doggy, and mewlk" for the ride.  We ride to the playground, to the ice cream shop, or just around the neighborhood.  We are enjoying our warm days!  Happy Summer!