27 Months Old

Our little rascal commemorated his 27th months of life by getting lost at Whole Foods.  He ran off in the produce department and after a few minutes of trying not to yell his name too loudly and sound like a total crazy person, an employee found Noah in the dairy section.  I thought maybe he'd be a little scared or something, but no, when he saw me, he was still laughing.  I tried to explain to him that he could get lost and that he can't run off, but he just kept laughing!  Then I said that if he were lost, there would be no more mommy, no more daddy (is it too mean to say these things?), no more Monkey, no more Spencer, no more Whiff, and I continued to list out the names of his trains... This time he didn't laugh.  He started crying, but said, "My Spencer.....my Spencer...." Geez.  I guess he wouldn't miss his parents!

The things that Noah says these days are hilarious.  When we ask him to do something that he doesn't want to do, he says, "Uhhhhhh....no genks."  What is he thinking over anyway??  Peter will ask him for a hug and his response is sometimes, "Uhhhhh....uhh...no genks."  Recently he started saying "Uhhh...ok fine," so I guess he really is deliberating.  Haha.  When he really wants something, he often says, "Pwease!!!  PWEASE!!!!" accompanied by whining and crying.  When he wants something to be moved out of the way, he says excuse me, but it sounds more like "cue me."  He says this not only to people, but to things as well.  "Cue me box.... Cue me chair... Cue me book..." We got a new TV recently and the box for the TV was in his way so he said, "Cue me, new TV."  If he doesn't know the name of something, he says, "Cue me, this."  It's the best when he wants something out of the way urgently: "Cue me, this.  Cue me, this.  Pwease!  PWEASE!!!" and then he starts whining and crying because the thing that he wants to move over can't actually move.  Now we have to work on pairing the polite language with actual polite behavior.  For example, no more yelling, "Mommy!!!  What you talkin bout??!?!" every time I'm trying to have a conversation with someone.  Also in the talking department, Noah just recently said his first accidental swear words.  As I've mentioned in previous posts, Noah loves reciting lines from movies, and his current favorite movie is Toy Story.  One of Buzz's lines is "My ship!" so Noah goes around saying, "My sh*t!  My sh*t!"  I suppose it's a bit immature to laugh about it, but when he says it over and over again, I just can't help laughing.

We've also been seeing more of Noah's sneaky side.  He loves playing with the our phones so a lot of times he'll look at us, give us a really big smile, while he slowly slides the phone away.  He also likes to try to sneak off to get the iPad.  Again, he'll flash us a big distracting smile, then tip toe sideways off towards our room.  Once he makes it into the room, he'll turn and sprint towards the usual iPad hiding spots.  

I guess that's it for this month!  He still loves his trains, still loves Buzz, and is getting better at using utensils.