Parrot

Jack repeats everything you say these days!  He has quite the vocabulary, but still hasn't decided he's ready to say more than one word at a time.

Several weeks ago, we were watching Sesame Street (for all of like 2 minutes.... he is NOT a tv person as much as I'd like a little rest in our day...) and he wanted to know one of the people's names on the show.  It happened to be Alan and so I told him.  I typically jabber for as long as one topic allows (cuz I figure that's what I'm supposed to do..) and I started saying things like "just like our dog's name is Naya and our neighbor's name is Hunter...  and Daddy's name is...."  Before I could get out "Daddy" -- yes, I was just going to tell him his name is Daddy, he said "Pat."  Excuse me??  I don't even call him that!!  I was stunned to say the least.  But, without a doubt, he knows that his Daddy's name is Pat.  Whoa.

Then, about a week or so later, Patrick was talking to me from the other room and said "Stace..."  Any guesses what my sweet little two-year-old chooses to call me from time to time now??  You got it -- Stace!  It's usually when he's really trying to get my attention or is intentionally being funny, but nonetheless.  Most of the time, it's still Momma - thank goodness.

Today's lesson:  You better watch what you say around him.  It's likely going to be repeated!

This day he told me his name was "Bob."
AKA:  Bob the Builder because of the hat and hammer :)