Biting...

Toddler biting, hitting, pushing, and throwing tantrums are my least favorite things right now. Like lots of parents I know, I worry about Logan doing too much of any of these activities at school and getting kicked out. So far they assure me none of that is really happening...

However, Logan bit Mike hard enough to leave a red mark the other day prompting the following conversation.

Me: Logan we cannot bite people

Logan: Why?

Me: Because it hurts.

Logan: Why?

Me (hoping he likes this explanation better): because it feels like when you just hurt your toe (referring to recent tow stubbing incident)

Logan: Hmmm...

Me: Do you bite kids at school?

Logan: Hans eats my strawberries.

Me (thinking OMG he bit Hans!): We can't bite people even if they take our strawberries.

Logan: Oh! Okay! (and runs off to play)

Work Treats

Necessary backround information: 1) Logan calls his backpack for school a "pack," 2) I frequently bring large bins of files home from work. I leave it by the front door in the morning so I can grab it on the way out.

The other morning as I got ready for work, Logan was eating a banana and drinking milk. We were checking in with each other periodically and over the course of about 15 minutes, everything with Logan and the banana seemed to be going well. (small amount of parental bravery required to allow Logan to wander around with a whole, unpeeled banana)

About five minutes later, Logan comes back without either the banana or the milk. I asked him where his food and milk went. His reply "I packed it in mummy's pack."

Sharing lesson from my toddler completely worth getting banana all over a subpoena. :)

The best of this week

1. Let's just wear jamas. No mommy work. No school.

2. That's not chicken!! (Logan's response to chicken marinated in a new flavor)

3. Pig - get down from Baby Jeje (Logan's response to a pig in a picture trying to see baby Jesus in the manger.

Choice words from the little one

"lellow" (pointing to the dinosaurs in the new dino book)

"baby jeje" (pointing to a picture of baby Jesus on the mantel on a Christmas card which clearly I need to put away soon because it is mid-February)

"I pooped" followed by a hand gesture from his mouth to actually indicate that he threw up

"playdough" (because every 22 month old should know this word)

First Sleep Over

Last night Mark and Diane kindly agreed to watch Logan so Mike and I could go to the policemen's ball for my work. We brought Logan to their house where he could play with Charlotte.

The kids even took a bath together. Logan was not amused by Charlotte's splashing and immediately wanted to get out. So funny.

Mark and Diane gave Logan a stuffed bulldog wearing a british flag coat with a leash as a parting gift. Today, he dragged that poor puppy all over the house saying "walk, walk, walk."

When Mike said he wanted to take Logan's picture, Logan stopped, looked up at Mike, and said "CHEESE!"

It doesn't get much better than that!

Relrow and the other colors of the rainbow

While changing Logan's diaper the other day, he was playing with his color wheel (a series of colored disks attached together at the center that we got from pottery barn kids).  We have been working on colors so as I changed his diaper I was naming colors and he was repeating.  Blue - blue, red - red, yellow - relrow.  Ummmm...  I asked him again - what color is that?  RELROW!  He happily repeated.  And, so it is.

Cheese is for dogs

Right up there with "Jesus pees" - "cheese is for dogs" is Logan's latest declaration.  

Logan spent the day with Nana today and had a fantastic time.  He is talking in full sentences most of the time.  His language is increasingly more clear so now it isn't just me that understands most of what he is saying.  (So much more fun to have a conversation without having to translate the majority of it!)

I am tempted now to follow him around with a recorder to try and catch stellar statements like those above.