Greetings Little One

Nighttime cravings

You’re spending the weekend at Nanni and Gramps’s house with Mommy while I spend Saturday working at a bridal show and finishing my book and Sunday in Foxboro at the Patriots playoff game. 

It’s Sunday morning as I write this.  I just got off the phone with you and Mommy.  You have not been gone 24 hours and I am already aching to see you.

Mommy slept in the same room as you did last night.  In the middle of the night, she reports that you awoke, said, “Apple muffin” and immediately went back to sleep. 

Apple muffins are one of your favorite food. 

In real life and apparently in your dreams as well. 

Polite

My favorite part of this video is the last five seconds, when you ask for more water, little one.  You ask politely and using a phrase that any adult might use.

It’s precious.  

Mommy does not instantaneously hand you another cup so you ask again, which was still cute but not quite as polite, but you’re learning.

You’re spelling now?

Mommy was trying to tell me that you were watching Peep and the Big Wide World last night, a cartoon that Shep recommended and one that you enjoy.

Trying to avoid the word Peep lest you decide that you need to watch it, Mommy spelled the word to me. 

“P-E-E-P,” she spelled.

“Peep?” you answered.

Granted, the spelling and the word sound remarkably similar, but still, you figured it out on your own.

We were impressed.  

Yeah…

Your latest word, little one:  Yeah.

Want some banana?  “Yeah.”

Want to go and see Mommy?  “Yeah.”

Want to brush your teeth?  “Yeah.”

We’re not sure if you understand every question we ask, but your standard response is silence or “Yeah.”

So cute.

Perhaps we can stop referring to Owen as Daddy now

You said kitty tonight, little one. Twice in reference to Owen as he jumped up on the couch beside you (once after I said the word and once independently) and once while repeating me at dinnertime.

Quite thrilling.