percy, peanuts, bertie the bus and other silly things

Oh yes, we do have a silly boy. Here are a few of the funny things he's been up to the past few weeks.

Dylan is very into Thomas and Friends these days. Way back when we went to the Day Out With Thomas, I got him a little spoon and fork set that has Thomas on the spoon and Percy on the fork. And over the past month, Dylan has stopped calling the trains "blue thomas", "red thomas" and "green thomas" and has started using their names. And when he says "Percy", it sounds like a female body part (just drop the "r"). Denny and I thought this to be way funny. I have yet to capture Percy on video, I keep trying but he stops saying it when I put the camera on. It was pretty funny the other day when we were in public and he was pointing at Percy and saying "hi percy" and one of the other moms looked over at him like "what did he just say?"

To add some more unintentional grown-up words to the mix, when Dylan was looking at the peanut butter jar the other day, he pointed at the peanuts. And said "peanus". At which I burst out laughing (it had been a rough day and I needed a good laugh). When he saw how much it made me laugh, he kept pointing at it and say it over and over again. And adding modifiers, like "hi peanus!" and "big peanus" (the peanuts on the front of the jar are bigger than the ones on the back). He also added his own very loud fake laugh after saying it. It was very close to bedtime at this point, so I had to hold my laughter in and get him upstairs for his bath. He insisted on bringing the peanut butter jar upstairs to have a bath too. Silly boy. The next morning, I was able to catch it on video (and unfortunately, it sounds more like its' supposed to on the video–peanuts).

One more funny word before I move on. We borrowed his friend Jax's Gordon train and Bertie the bus a couple of days ago. Gordon is Dylan's favorite (more on that later). When Dylan says "Bertie" bus it comes out sounding like "booty bus". (Can you tell we are easily amused?)

So, before Denny left for his trip we had a funny little incident. It was after bathtime and Dylan was running around doing the naked towel dance instead of laying down to get his diaper on. Denny was laying on the floor next to the diaper pad reading a book to entice him over. Well, Dylan came over and stood behind Denny's head...not super close...but close enough for me to think..."man, it would be bad if he peed right now". And sure enough he did. None got on Denny, but it was still pretty hilarious.

Since Denny's been gone, we've had to take the trash out on our own. Last week, I ended up putting Dylan's jacket and boots on over his pajamas in order to get him out of the door. He insisted on "helping" me push the trash can to the curb. Which would have been fine if I was short. But, I had to bend over to keep the trash can from falling over or being too heavy. It was cute that he wanted to help, but I was happier this week when he decided to just walk without pushing.

Dylan and Jax like to "climb" trees. Luckily, at this park we were able to find a perfect tree to put them in.

Dylan's vocabulary just keeps growing and growing. And he's putting sentences together so well. When we read books, he wants to count things that are in the books. He's been into books with sheep lately, and when he counts the sheep, he'll look over at me and say "We're counting sheep!" When we are going downstairs, he'll count and say "We're counting stairs!". It's too cute. He loves to count, but doesn't quite know when to stop.

Last night he was holding on to his favorite train Gordon and was telling me "Gordon color is blue!" He also wants to "read book about fireflys". He's been using "about" a lot. He'll point at a picture and say "this about cows". We were playing with some beanbags I made for him the other day, and they each have a letter from his name. I laid them out in order and he read the letters in order and said "that spells Dylan". He picks up on soooo much. I was talking with my friend Tina the other day and mentioned the mall in a sentence. When I hung up he started telling me "go mall" and ran to the door.

Now, back to the trains. I said earlier that we borrowed Gordon from Jax the other day. Since then, Gordon has had to do everything with us (I went and bought Dylan his own Gordon today so we could return Jax's). Gordon has been quite helpful too. He tried some of Dylan's dinner, and then Dylan wanted to try it too. We took Gordon outside for a walk after dinner so Dylan could show him the lights (it was the only way to get him away from his train tracks). I'm glad I got Dylan outside. It's getting dark so much earlier, so he was able to see the moon and was quite happy about that. Gordon's had a bath with Dylan and if I'd let him, I bet Dylan would bring him to bed too (he's a little too small and not nearly soft enough for that).

Unfortunately, Dylan is going through a strange phase the past couple of weeks. I don't know if it's related to Denny being out of town or what...but he's gotten to be freaked out by going inside strange places and being around people. Heck, he even doesn't like going inside places we normally go to...like Gymbabies. We went today and he went back to the door and was ready to go saying "no gymbabies". But when I carried him over he was way happy to be there. We tried going to a music class last weekend that I knew he would enjoy. He stood at the door and cried and asked for a car ride. He'd calm down when the music started (the lady who leads the class plays guitar), but then he'd start crying again. We stayed for a little while, but he just wasn't into it at all. We'll try again next week. And, yet again, he did the exact same thing at a baby shower I tried to go to. I hope he gets through this phase quickly, it's getting old fast.

One evening last week, I painted part of a wall in our kitchen with chalkboard paint. We've been having lots of fun with the chalkboard and the chalk. Dylan is obsessed with having "big chalk". If it breaks, he doesn't want to use it. He likes to draw lines and we've been working on drawing circles together. He also likes for mommy to "draw letters". I draw the letters, he tells me what they are and then we sing the song about sounds (from the Letter Factory DVD....."the A says aaaaaaahhhh, the A says ahhhhh, every letter makes a sound the a says aaahhh".) He loves to do this and will generally stay interested until the end of the alphabet. Sometimes he gets impatient and wants to request a certain letter (he does this a lot when we are just singing). His favorites are A, E, I, H, S and P. He also likes for me to draw Elmo and Pooh on the chalkboard. Wow, that was a nice long post. I've got some lovely fall photos for next time.