Joel asks the same five questions all.day.long. Happened/Happening? Who dat? Is that/this? Where going? What dat called? In fact, most of the time when he asks us these questions he knows the answer. We figured out that he wants us to ask him what it is or where we are going. And the "who dat?" is pretty darn funny (and embarrassing) when we are out in public! He'll just point at random people and say it. Loudly.
When Joel was in one of his time-outs, I told him to stay there until the bell rang. Right away he said, "Ding, ding! Hear it!"
Two new words he's come up with recently are actually and probably. He asked me what a noise was, and I told him I thought it was a truck. He said, "ummmm...actually an airplane." And we hear "probably broken" about his toys quite frequently, too.
We were listening to one of Joel's CDs when the song "He's got the Whole World in His Hands" came on. One of the verses talks about sisters, but apparently Joel is under the impression it's scissors because he started saying baby scissors. We laughed pretty hard about that. And then he looked concerned and asked, "happened?"
One sweet story about Joel, too. We've been putting away some of his baby toys in the closet for baby brother. Of course Joel sees them in there and wants to play with them. We tell him we're saving them for his baby brother. The other day, he took one of his favorite bulldozers into the closet and said "baby brother." He's already sharing! :)
Joel is quite intrigued by many things at church, but especially Communion. A couple months ago, he pointed to the individual cups that were filled and said wine. We aren't really sure how he knew that! Now, when we go up to receive Communion, he says wine very loudly. And then he says, I want wine. Also very loudly. It gets quite a few chuckles from people that hear him!
Whew--all that talking makes a boy tired! Or is it the nap boycotts? One can never be sure.
