Some of our favorite vocabulary includes:
Do it again - do din digain
Holy Moly - moly moly
Uh oh spaghettios - uh oh spitigos
Stephanie - nephie nephie
Lightening McQueen - Lightening Aqueen
Thumper from Bambi - Sumpers
Kangaroo - Kangakoo
Tater tots - Tootie tots
Whatcha doing? - Whatcha donut?
When he's hungry he says - Something a hungry?
He is now counting correctly all the way up through twelve, but then says fourteen for thirteen, fourteen and fifteen. His alphabet tends to skip around a bit, but it's too cute.
His favorite TV show at this point is Little Einsteins (aka Little Einteins). In fact, thanks to Little Einsteins and the portable DVD player, we had a very successful trip to Mobile for Thanksgiving (and will hopefully have a good one for Christmas as well).
Whenever he sees any female whether it's just a character on a TV show or an actual female Nicholas will say "Like you mama!" He does the same for Gabe when he sees a male. On the way to church one Sunday, Nicholas was looking at his kids bible and saw a picture of Jesus and said "Like you dada!" We got a kick out of that one.
Nicholas cracks us up when he corrects us with what we are saying. We'll say "look there's a dog." To which Nicholas will reply "No, it's a dog." One day I went back and forth with him because I pointed out a frog to him in a book and he kept telling me "No, it's a froggie." Apparently my proper term of "frog" was not correct.
He is also very independent. When I offer to do something for him, often times he will say "No - my do it." In other words, "I've got it mom."
We are really trying to be patient with the whole potty training thing, but I would really love it if he was trained by his third birthday. That being said, I've been reading up on tips and techniques. I purchased a jar which I promptly labeled "Potty Treats" and filled it with M&Ms. So far he just wants the treats and not the potty. So no M&Ms for Nicholas yet. Then I read about another technique to let kids go au natural around the house - the thinking behind this being that they won't want to pee or poop just anywhere and will want to use the potty. Well lets just say this REALLY didn't work with Nicholas. I basically let him go commando for about 15 minutes and had to clean up several different spots where the floor was sufficient and he didn't feel the need to use the potty. After this experience, I will keep Nicholas in diapers at all times.
We are really looking forward to Christmas this year. It will be interesting to see how Nicholas reacts this year compared to last year.
