Oh James

"I ready a go look with bugs with you!"

"I got no pants!"

me: There's bugs at Jukie's house too

James: There IS?!?

"It's a box-ell bug!" (box elder bug)

"I danced on mine bed!"

me: It's Mommy's list

James: No, it's Mommy's not-list!

"I kinda really want to!"

"We are done cleaning...we are done cleaning....we are done cleaning, Mommy.

WE. ARE. DONE. CLEANING!"

"Don't see me!"

"I not sleepy! I not sleepy!!"

And my favorite - James said this after I asked him to clean up his toys. Instead he climbed up on the couch, covering himself with his blanket, and said:

"I just gonna have quiet time.
I gonna watch you clean up!"

Things heard in our home.

James is quite the conversationalist. For example:

that soun uh-dea! (that sounds like a good idea!)

spexxors a watt (I took pictures of my friend's son, Wyatt)

in the chicken (the kitchen)

liza-phone (xylophone)

no, that's mine mommy!! (yes he is sometimes a bit jealous)

You look like a dinosaur! (he said this to my mom...he was pretending to put crackers in her mouth, then would pull them away at the last second - so she was opening her mouth trying to grab them.)

Go fast, clock!!

Me used to sit here! (while visiting my Grandma's house, where we used to live)

I blowing in the wind! (I love this one. He was holding hands with me and Jonathan and would lift up his legs and swing between us.)

Those are french fries. (the dotted yellow line on a toy road for his cars)

I build clippers with Benj. (now this is a strange one. He has some wooden train tracks, and there are a few pieces that fork into two tracks. For some reason, he calls these pieces "clippers." Uncle Benjamin came over and built a train track with him.)

Clip a cracker (when you break a graham cracker into smaller pieces)

I do this trick Grandy show me. (His Grandy showed him how to pull his arms inside his shirt and pretend like his arms were missing. He got a big kick out of it!)

Telephone poles, Mommy! (who knew he knew what telephone poles were called?!)

Sleeve foots (my child is pretty clever - this means pant legs)

James: Someone coming today?
Me: Nope, I don't think anyone is coming over today.
long pause.....
James: Plano students?
Me: No, not today! Today I am just going to hang out with James!
another pause....
James: No, hang out with plano!

Teach me piano, teach me piano! (This was so cute. Read more here.)

Me: Eat your chicken - it'll make you big! It's yummy.
James: No, it's not. It make me litterer!

No want chickenrole. (suspicious of my chicken casserole...)

Me: James, take a bite of your banana.
James: No, it's creepsy.

James: I want juice.
Me: We're drinking milk this time - milk goes better with ems anyway! (m&m's)
James: No, it goes with a cookie.

Me have tears in my room! (he was crying in his room)

There's Pooh in the chapter book! (he LOVES chapter books! I read Winnie the Pooh to him and he was RIVETED for 45 pages. He would have listened to more but I stopped reading!)

overheard

This is something I overheard James saying as he played by himself the other day - pretty funny!

we have no diapers in our house
there's diapers in the dirt
we drive on some
our wheels on some
the dirt...the dirt...oh, the dirt!
we goin' to sleep in this. go to sleep go in this. ohh...naps. two naps. two naps, mommy!
I so tired! I too so tired! I go a sleep sometime, was I sleepy

goodnight, fweetsie

James says the most hilarious things lately. It's pretty cute that he now talks in full sentences. Here are some funny ones he said today:

"In a little bit go a Giki's house?" (he uses "a" instead of "to" - what is this, Spanish??)
"I clipped a little cracker." (he broke a little piece of cracker off of a big cracker)
"Mommy, my toys bug me!!" (he was frustrated because he wanted his cars, but his trains, books and dinosaurs were all crammed in the same box)

Other funny lines of late:

me: "goodnight, sweetie!"
James: "goodnight, fweetsie!" (he repeats everything I say to him while tucking him in...it's adorable)

"Wash down da hiccups!"

And, for the sake of posterity and because a mommy usually forgets these things if not written down, here are some more adorable/funny things he has said lately.

mine see-o's!! mine see-io-ios!! ("my cheerios!")
gankyou, mommy! gankyou, mommy! ("thank you, mommy")
no mine balls!! no mine balls! (rhymes with "pals")
uh, mommy's.....................eat dose!!
sumping else!
I dizzy!
sowwy!! sawyee! ("sorry!")
*he uses "sowwy" when he wants us to say we're sorry! if we do something he doesn't like, he'll frantically start crying, "sowwy!! sowwy!"
mommy, fix it! mommy, fix it!
mine hat
mine chair
i suck ("i stuck")

My James.

Today my sanity slowly slipped away as James held up M&M after M&M, saying, "What's dat?? He asked with each one.

He wonders "what's dat" all the time. Constantly. And he loves to do things by himself. "Self!" he says.

In fact he climbed into his high chair by himself, while I was on the phone, and when I heard little yelps I ran into the kitchen, and there he was, feet barely touching the ground, his little white t-shirt stuck way up high on the high chair. As sad as it was I couldn't help but laugh out loud, it was pretty funny. I asked him afterwards "where does it hurt?" to which he responded by poking out his round little belly as far as it would go. I kissed his tummy and all was well.

Seriously though, this kid is a keeper. He's all about being happy lately. He constantly says "I happy!" or "Daddy happy!" The past two days, though, if I exhibit any sign of any emotion other than happiness (be it frustration, exhaustion, determination or just plain being bugged), he gets a major pouty face and says, "Mommy? Happy?!?" I have been working on keeping a happy face, despite my inner feelings. If Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy....am I right?

Here's a fun conversation:
me: "James, do you feel sick?"
James: "No. I happy."

Today James was a hyper little doggie who wouldn't take a nap, crawling all around the house licking things. "Dog food!" he said. Of course.

He wanted to go somewhere really badly today..."Go sumpin'! a-Go sumpin', Mama!"

It was quite the day and I am quite the exhausted Mama...but I wouldn't trade it for anything :)

should be sleeping...

...but instead James is up in his bed happily yelling words that he knows. Kind of cute, really.

LELLO!!
GREEN!!
DOOR!!
BANKEEK!!
YEAH!!
CARS!!
HOUSES!!
BOOK!!
MAMA!!
DOGGIE!!
BOOK!!
BANKEEK!!
BED!!
FOOT!!
MINE FOOT!!
ouchies!
mmmmmmmmmMUAH! (apparently he kissed his foot)
TRAIN!!
BALL!!
BOOKS!!
TRAIN!!
TRAIN TRACKS!!
BED!!
RED CAR!
RED BOOK!
BROWN!!
WHITE!!
BED! BED!
BOOK!
DOGGIE! MINE DOGGIE!!

phew.

That is my sigh of relief that James is in bed. And quiet. [I take that back, he just sneezed...crossing fingers that he falls asleep soon!]

This week he has been awful with his naps, and it's making me crazy! I don't know about any of you, but I can never really completely relax until I know he's actually asleep. I can only get so much done when he's up there calling my name!

Any mommy knows that nap time is glorious. Not that we don't love our children and want to play with them and hug them and read to them, but you cannot stay sane without some amount of time to yourself during the day, am I right? Even if it's taking a hot bath or reading a magazine OR, better yet, leaving the child with your husband and getting out and going somewhere (even if it's just to the grocery store) by yourself (it's always nice when you can pick the tiny shopping cart and not the HUGE one with the car on the front that is impossible to maneuver through the aisles and you get in everybody's way and your child is hanging his head out the side).

I think that yesterday was particularly exhausting. James is usually pretty good about playing by himself while I do the dishes and get a few things done around the house. But yesterday he wanted my FULL attention. I'd leave the room and he'd start calling, "Mommy?? Mommy??" He wanted me to "make his toys talk" over and over and over again. There is only so much you can make a little wooden person say to his wooden buddy, or a car say to another car (unless you are my husband or my dad, in which case you can go on and on for hours and never seem to get tired of it).

After he'd been in his bed yesterday for an hour or so of "quiet time" (since he never fell asleep), I went in there and we had this conversation:

me: "why didn't you go to sleep?"
James: "awake!"
me: "well, did you try closing your eyes?"
James: "no. eyes open!"
we then had a sort of stare down and he started to grin.
James: "out? met? one met?" (one minute)
me: "you want to get out?"
James: long pause........................"ok!"

sigh.
Calling all mommies: What do you like to do during your "alone time" while your kiddies are sleeping or with daddy? How do you recharge your battery so you remain pleasant and patient? :)

never posted

I was just going through some old posts and found this that I never posted - a list of cute/funny things that James said. I'm glad I wrote these down because (even though it was only a few weeks ago that he said them) I completely forgot about some of these! (Ah, the memory of a mommy - you swear you'll never forget each little moment, but you always do.)

cokes on (coats on)

move dose! (move those)

suck (he still uses this one, this is his word for truck - love it. I should also note that his word for jump is "sump")

man-a-walking (this is a game my Dad played with me when I was little, and James likes to play it; it involves making a little man with your fingers and making him walk up your arm and up over your head - sometimes we have to do this over and over and over again!)

hold me! this is probably the cutest thing he says lately, and even though at times it can get exhausting, it makes me feel great :) he really started using this a lot after I had a few good friends over (on different days) who brought their children/babies, and James just wasn't so sure about his mommy holding/interacting with other babies and kids.

blah blah blah - ahh, I completely forgot about this one. This was James imitating me talking on the phone. You can see how he feels about his mommy's phone conversations...

house! pants on! house! pants on! Ah yes, crying for me to put his pants on and take him downstairs. Good times.

The simple joys of childhood

While visiting my Mom today, James and I looked out the window and saw a black cat climbing across the top of a fence! Oh the excitement! James loves cats lately. He went shopping with me yesterday and while I was trying on clothes in the dressing room at Old Navy, he got very bored and so he decided to be a cat. He crawled all around the dressing room meowing, rubbing up against my leg and climbing on me. And he tried to lick the wall. Yuck.

So anyway, we were looking out the window at this cat, and James opened the shutters, spooking the cat a bit. I told him that maybe we shouldn't move the shutters so we don't scare the cat. Then the cat moved closer and STARED at us with its big green eyes. James turned and reached for me and said, "Cares me!!" [scares me] (I can't say that I blame him, I am so not a cat person; in fact, I really dislike cats most of the time. Kittens are kind of cute though.)

He felt much better, though, after we looked out a different window and scared the cat, making it run away. James just laughed and laughed!

Isn't it fun discovering the world through the eyes of your child? Like the excitement of seeing a cat or a bird or a bug. Or taking long, looooong walks and stopping to look at everything along the way. If I wasn't a mommy, I so would not be blogging about seeing a cat outside the window. :) But I am a mommy, and I just love it. I am so happy to get to re-live childhood vicariously through my little buddy.

Our Handsome Two-Year-Old

Aren't these photos just priceless? Our buddy boy sure is growing up. I just tucked him into bed a few minutes ago and said, "Sweet dreams!" to which he replied "Sleet beams!"

**Stay tuned...once the voting is up for RLT Photography's "Adorable Baby Contest" I'd love it if you could all go vote for James!!

Oooh, Mama - I like this!

The other day, James and I were shopping with my Mom. Another toddler, a little girl, rode by in another cart. She pointed at James and said, "Baby!" to which James replied, "Bames!" I'm not a baby, I'm James!!

My aunt and Grandma were at the same store with us, and at one point my Mom and James and I were separated from them. My Mom told James to look for Tracy and Grandma. He totally spotted them when we were about to walk the other way - he pointed and yelled, "There it is!!"

My Mom was reading books to James, and he went and picked one off the shelf that has little lights in it (it's about fireflies). He brought it to my Mom and said, "It lights up!"

After finishing some juice, James asked for more. I gave him a cup of milk and told him he could have more juice after he had some milk. He pushed the cup away and said, "Get away! I don't want dat!"

While we were walking down our stairs the other day, James started lifting his legs up really high. When I asked what he was doing he replied, "Marchin' down."

Overheard while James played with his cars: "oh my oh my oh my."

James is fascinated with bugs lately. When he saw one in the doorway, I closed the door and I said, "bye bye, bug!" James then said, "Bye bye, Doug! Run away, bug!"

Two feet = "Feets"

Swim = "Fwim"

"Hands winkie" = what happens to your hands when you stay in the bath for too long (they get wrinkly!)

My cute aunt Jamie came over today and gave James a birthday gift, which included a cute stuffed doggie. James put the doggie on the couch, then said to it, "Look at you!!"

This morning at work, my sister's boyfriend found a "Mack" truck, and knowing that James LOVES Mack in the movie Cars, he took a picture on his phone and sent it to Abby, who sent it to me. James was so excited when he saw it that he wanted to see more; he said, "Abby, more Mack!!" and "more Macks!"

Tonight James and I were playing in his room, and he opened up a drawer and found a box of bobbies (binkies). He never really used them much at all as a baby. He decided to try one and put it in his mouth. He must have enjoyed it because he said, "Oooh, Mama - I like this!!"

so many words

James is a great little talker and seems to say something new every day. I have been keeping a little list of cute things he says, and I just have to post them...mostly for my sake, the grandparents' sake, and posterity's sake :).


Words he says lately:

"nike" = goodnight
"bess" = polar express
"baff" = bath
"gakes" = snowflakes
"ocks" = socks
"plate" = plane
"wuh-woose!!" = love you (my personal favorite!!)
"gweak" = drink
"bowks" = backwards
"awkwee-awkwee" = okey-dokey
"cuke" or "keeook" = cute
"utmore" = oatmeal
"snowman"
"mah-key" = monkey
"teck" = tuck me in
"anmals" = animals
"Awake!!" This word is used a lot, such as after pretending to be asleep, or it is used to wake up Mommy when she is trying to sleep (like when we are on a road trip, or when I am sleeping on the couch while he plays with Daddy), and is accompanied with hitting (we are working on that) or JUMPING on his mother. Good times.

His "L's" are now very pronounced - "bLocks," "play," "bLack," "bLLoons" (that means balloons)

Family names he says:

"Bapa" = Grandpa (his Grandpa Gibbons)
"Giki" = Jukie (his Grandma Gibbons)
"Anyan" = Annie
"Liz"
"Baba" or "Abby"
"Dosh" = Josh
"Nana" (his Grandma Boster)
"Benj" = Benjamin
"Becka" = Rebecca
"Jeaney" = Emma Jeane
"Magin" = Megan (he has only used this one once)

He is getting very good at colors and knows the following well:

red
orange
blue
black
pink

Cute things he says:

The other day I put on some hot pink fuzzy socks. He saw them and got all excited and said, "Pigs!!"

He refers to himself in the 3rd person quite often by saying "Bames" which is his way of saying James. It is quite hilarious, and darn cute. Some of my favorites are when he says he wants to do a certain activity, like playing in the snow, and then names off the names of who he wants to participate ("Play? No? Dada? Mama? Bames?") I will also often be cuddling with him, and I'll say something about him being my baby, to which he replies, "No, Bames!" or "Boy!"

Whenever I try to take a video of him, he stops doing whatever cute thing he was doing and instead says, "watch!" until I let him watch the video.

As previously posted, he is getting good at counting. My favorite is number seven ("sven").

Whenever I brush my hair, James says, "brush!" so I give him the brush and he brushes his own hair. Afterwards he looks in the mirror, smiles, and says, "Nice!!"

He LOVES animals, and was so excited the other night when we were outside and he saw a black cat in a neighbor's window. He walked right up to the window and stared at that cat for about fifteen minutes, saying, "Hi, Gack! Hi, Gack!" Cat is sometimes "Gack," "Cack," or (for some reason), "Sack."

When we built Dirk, James learned the word "Snowman." While building him, James started waving at him, saying, "Hi, man! Hi, man!" Since we finished building him and we had named him "Dirk," James loves to wave at him and say, "Hi, Dork! Hi, Dork!"

The other day, my friend Cheryl and her husband and baby daughter came to visit. While I was holding baby Amelia, James was a little suspicious. After they left, he came up to me with his arms outstretched and said, "Hold, Bames!!" I guess it was a little hard seeing his Mama hold another baby.

Some more great plurals he uses:

The other day James grabbed my floss and Jonathan's floss from our bathroom drawers (we had just been to the dentist so we had matching dental floss); he held one in each hand and said, "floss-floss!"

Sometimes before bed he likes to tuck in all his little stuffed animals on the rocking chair in his room. We covered them all with a blanket, he kissed them all, then said, "Fleeps!" "Fleep" means sleep, and there were many stuffed animals sleeping. Makes sense, right?

Great phrases he uses:

"sit, please!" (This is pretty monumental, because ever since he was really little he has used the word "Na" to mean "sit." Finally, about a week ago, he was frustrated because I was doing the dishes and just wanted me to play with him - finally he patted the floor next to him with his hand and said, "Sit, please!!"

"red tar" James LOVES getting red star stickers in nursery, and keeps them on his hand AS. LONG. AS. POSSIBLE. He gets very sad when he finally loses one. Amazingly, we have found quite a few red stars, days later, in random places around our house.

"done....away!" This is what he says after finishing a packet of fruit snacks - he then carries the wrapper over to the sink, opens the cupboard, and throws it away in the garbage. Good boy!

"zoom zoom zoom!" This is what his cars say lately.

"apple juice" I love it when he says this, he says it so cute. He sometimes also calls it "red juice" for some reason.

"nana's house" After going to Nana's house for Thanksgiving, this is one of James' new favorite phrases!!

"Giki's house" One of his very favorite places to go. This doesn't necessarily always mean "Jukie's house," but means the area in the family room of Jukie's house where all the fun toys are kept.

"out da door!" He said this ALL the time at Nana's house when he wanted to go outside to see the dog, or when he climbed out of his playard during nap time (EVERY DAY) and started banging on the door for someone to let him out!

"out-a-becka!" Aunt Rebecca took James outside to play, and when we dragged him inside for dinner he was NOT happy, and said this over and over until Rebecca took him back outside.

My FAVORITE phrase he uses:

"lick at dis!!" which means "look at this!" He just says it with such joy and enthusiasm. For example, he was playing in the dirt at Nana's house and got a little dirt on his finger - he held it up to show us and said, "Lick at dis!!" He was SO excited. I just love watching him discover the world. What a joy!

(And what's a post without a picture?? My awesome brother-in-law Benjamin took this cute picture of James while we were home for Thanksgiving. More Thanksgiving pictures to come!)

great day

What a red-letter day: my child drank two glasses of milk for lunch (I know, miracle of miracles!), and he counted to thirteen (he surprises us every day!).

Mores.

A couple more plurals our buddy uses...

He was looking for more cars and said, "Mores cars?"
"Oh, nos!!" (Two of his toys fell down)

may I take your order?

Earlier today I turned to Jonathan and asked, "What do you want for lunch?"

James immediately chimed in with his order:

"Juice, Milk, Crackers, Oatmeal, Spoon!"

Well then - yes sir! At least the kid knows what he wants, right? This is what he asks for for every meal, by the way. Can you tell we like breakfast food around here?

I was lucky and he said almost the same thing when I whipped out the camera...

Plurals

As I have mentioned before, James is really learning how to use plural forms of words. It has got to be the cutest thing ever. Here are some of his creative usages...


"Hellos?" - pretending to talk on two different phones at once
"Woofs" - he said as he walked into my room holding a stuffed doggie in each arm
"Hugs" - what he wanted me to give his many stuffed animals that he kept adding to the bunch in my arms
"Reds" - many red things, of course
"Beep-beeps!" - what many cars say
This next one is just pure genius - we have some huge wooden dice that James likes to stack up, and he will say, "dice!" when he wants to play with them. Well the other day he was holding one of them, and said, "die!" Don't ask me where he learned that but I was oh so proud...many adults don't even get that one right :)
"Uh-ohs!" - what he said when he dropped two toys

Are you kidding me??

...my child is in bed...willingly!! About 45 minutes ago (around 6:15) he started saying, "Bed?" I'd ask, "you want to go to bed?" and he'd respond, matter-of-factly, "Yeah!" Cool. There are NO complaints here. He had a bath, we read a book, sang some songs (which he sang along with - adorable!), I got him situated in his bed with a few books to read (he LOVES to read in bed for a little while before going to sleep), he reached up and voluntarily kissed me goodnight, I said "Love you!" and he said, "Vuv oo!" and that was that!

Sweet.

my clever boy

James has recently been getting good at using plural and possessive forms of words. Mama's bag, Jukie's car, etc., and my favorite plural one he has used is when is playing with lots of cars, he says "beep-beeps!" Pretty clever, I think.

Well, James loves to pretend that random things are telephones and hold them up to his ear and say hello. He learned it from my Dad, who will pick up almost anything (even the piano bench) and pretend like it is a telephone (which James thinks is hilarious and tries to copy). It's no wonder my child has such a great imagination.

Yesterday my boys were playing with James' farm animals from his Fisher-Price barn, and pretending they were phones. At one point, James held a farm animal up to each ear and said, "Hellos?" :)

best. job. ever.

I was just thinking how glad I am to be a mother. It is seriously the best job ever, I can't imagine doing anything else; nothing in the world would be more important to me (or to James). James and I are best buddies (along with Daddy, of course), and what is more fun than having your full-time job (yes, definitely full-time) be hanging out with your cute little buddy?

My "job description" includes duties such as these...

Feed the little man. Easier said than done, folks. Sometimes I think he'll turn into a giant graham cracker, because it seems like that is all he'll eat! Is that bad?

Kiss his owies when he gets hurt. This occurs almost daily. But once I kiss him, he's all better. Just like magic.

Change the diapers. Maybe not so enjoyable, but seriously, you get used to it after doing it for so long. Once he was grumpy and whining when I was trying to change him, so I threw the clean diaper high up in the air and caught it (one needs to be creative in times of desperation) and he just thought that was the funniest thing he'd ever seen. Now we must play this game during every diaper-changing session.

Clean up after him. Seriously, how can a kid's room get so messy so fast? Luckily he is getting to the point that he can do little jobs to "help" Mommy. Today he even helped me with the laundry. He carried two shirts (one at a time) from the dryer to the pile on Mommy's bed. Now if only he knew how to fold, then we'd be in business...

Run around and play together. One favorite game we like to play these days is that I try to take a picture of James, and he just runs and runs and laughs and laughs, because he won't stay still long enough (he's a tease like that). Then I, of course, have to run after him and tickle him until he runs again.

Run errands together. James loves to hold hands and "run run run!!" into the store or library. Sometimes we go for walks and chat about all the things we see - like pumpkins, or "bums" (speed bumps).

Read books. We love to read books together, and James will often bring a book to me and say "read!" And sometimes he likes to read all by himself, too. But even so, he is VERY insistent that I look at every page with him. Like if I try to read my OWN book (heaven forbid), or do anything, for that matter, it gets interrupted for every single page with a "Mama??" Once I comment on the picture I am off the hook...until he turns the next page, that is.

Teach him. Wow this is a big one. Despite the fact that as parents we must teach our kids everything, it's amazing how much they teach us. Or how much they do know that we don't realize they know. Or just how smart/clever they really are. Today James had his juice cup in his hand, and then not even ten minutes later it was nowhere to be found. I searched everywhere but couldn't find it, so I got him a new cup. Later in the afternoon, James ran into the kitchen, said "Juice!" and immediately opened up the bread maker, pulled out his juice cup from earlier and took a big drink. Guess he was saving it for later. What a smart boy.

Give him a bath. This is one of his most enjoyable times of day. He has come up with some fun games, such as lining all of his bath toys up on the edge of the tub, then one by one saying, "we - go! we - go! we -go!!" or "3 - 2 - 3 - 2 - 3!!!" and pushing each toy into the water. Splashing Mommy is also great times. My favorite part is when we let the water out, and he lays down on his tummy with his little bum in the air, waiting for "Mr. Tornado" to appear above the drain. Once he's there, James SMACKS him and waits for him to return.


Hug him, kiss him, sing to him, love him. Here's the fun part. Sometimes he freaks out when I start singing a certain song, because he knows bedtime is soon. But sometimes he just lays his head on my shoulder and listens. So cute. I love it how he kisses me on the lips before bed, and how he is learning to say his own prayers (with our help). And lately he just gives the best hugs.

I love my job!

how'd my kid get so smart?

Does your child ever surprise you with something you didn't realize he knew? It seems like lately James' vocabulary has been growing SO much, it's like his brain is having a massive growth spurt.

Today we went to the music store so I could pick up a few things I needed (did I mention I'm the new ward choir director?? - wish me luck!). Anyway, at this store they have a little children's play area (here's my plug for this awesome music store - best one out there!), so James was playing with some toys in there. There was a poster on the wall of Elmo, and, to our surprise, James pointed up at it and said, "E-mo!" We have absolutely NO recollection of introducing James to Elmo. EVER. So we thought, either our kid is a REAL genius and he can READ (hehe), or else maybe he saw Elmo once and just has a REALLY good memory! Either way...what a smart boy! I can say that because I'm his mommy, and proud to be so :)


Later today he surprised me a couple of other times with his great memory. He pulled out some books from his shelf that we haven't read in quite awhile, and when he saw this one...


...he said, "La la la!" I was quite surprised, and impressed, that he remembered this was a book about singing. I mean, the [creatures - are they mice??] are singing on the front cover, but you can't really tell, except for the music in their hands - so maybe he knows what music looks like? :)

Then he grabbed this book...


...which we haven't read in quite some time, and excitedly said, "Boose!!"

And THEN, he opened up this book...

...and turned to the last page (you know, the one that says, "...Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night?") and he said, "Night night!"

Wow, I was just so impressed. And I just had to brag :)

Ok I'm done.