Tuesday, September 23, 2008

A couple of small Ben stories

I had a small bit of yarn, 8 feet or so, left from a project and I asked Ben if he wanted to play with it. He took it and went running into the hallway.
He laid it all out on the floor and told us it was his "football floor". Having of course no idea what he was talking about, Todd and I just said "uh huh, looks good buddy". Then he had us put on imaginary helmets and went and found his football.

Then it dawned on us, he made the lines of the football field with the yarn on the floor. His football floor. So we played football in the hallway. Ben won.

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One of the stories you always hear from parents of toddlers is the first time you hear a curse word out of their kid's mouth. This week we have been hearing "cwap" an awful lot.

"It's cwap, mama" When asked what he has in his hand.
After dropping his milk cup "Cwap, it in the floor"

At first we weren't so sure exactly what he was saying so I ignored it, but now it is evident, he is saying crap. And pretty much in context!

Given how much I swear, and the MUCH worse words I tend to use. Really "crap" isn't all that bad! But I think I need to clean up my act a bit! CRAP!

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On the potty training front:

We are accident free for 4 days now, and woke up with a dry diaper this morning! He has definitely learned to hold it and is letting us know when he has to go. We still ask a lot and ask him to go before we go out anywhere.

Last week I picked him up from daycare and he told me he had to go before we went home, so we headed to the bathroom. They have those super cute toddler toilets in their bathroom! I asked if he needed help and he said "NO! I do it myself!" Ok buddy. So I sat in the counter and waited. He pulled down his pants lifted the seat and went standing up. Who taught him that? I went and asked the teacher, she said she had wondered if we taught him, he had been doing it all day. I think it is one of those things wired in the male brain. "Hey I can pee standing up, why in the world would I sit?"

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