funny guy

this little guy is pretty hilarious these days. he's going out of his way to talk even though he's really not very good at it. he'll repeat any word you say. and he gets better every day...

he's very good at saying "thank you." sometimes you hand him something and he just automatically goes, "Tanks!!" sometimes he gives you something and then says "tank oo. oor ell-come." he hasn't quite gotten "please" down yet. i usually have to remind him to say please.

he can also count two items which is funny. especially when he first started doing it. he would shout, "two tucks!" and sure enough... two trucks. sometimes he tries to count to himself but he just says, "eight... nine..."

i've tried to teach him colors. he can say all the colors, but if you ask him what color such-and-such is, he always says "geen!" but every now and then he'll show me something pink and (unprompted) yell, "pink!"

another funny thing is that he really likes to say "i got it!" he'll say it at appropriate times, like when he's trying to do something and he manages by himself. but sometimes he'll say it when he asks for help - for example, climbing onto something - and then you help him and he says, "i got it!"

the other morning mathias was making coffee and dominic walked up to him and said, "hey buddy."

in the morning, mathias always puts on dominic's shoes and jacket or hoodie before we leave. dominic loves this. he says, "shoes! shoes" and then he says, "hodie! hodie!" which sounds to me exactly like the swahili word "hodi" so that cracks me up.

and the SECOND he comes in the door, "shoes OFF. shoes OFF. hodie OUT."

this afternoon on the drive home we saw kids playing soccer. we see them almost every day and i'll say, look at the kids playing soccer! today i also said, do you want to play soccer someday? he didn't answer me... but then like 15 seconds later he shouted, "YAAA!" which was still pretty funny. he used to (and sometimes still does) just laugh when you ask him if he wants something and the answer is yes. but lately he's started yelling "YA!" which is pretty funny.

tonight after dinner he was in a really giggly mood, which is fairly unusual... generally at that time he's pretty grumpy because it's close to bedtime. but he was being so silly. anything mathias would do would make him laugh really loud. and then mathias was asking him to make faces: "show me your big face" (mouth open); "show me your silly face" (pulling your cheeks back and making a funny noise); show me your happy face. then we said, show me your crying face and he totally pretended to cry.

last night we read a bible story book that we haven't read since before he could really understand much. and then this morning he saw the book and said, "giant and david!!!" because they were on the cover and he TOTALLY remembered that part. he kept saying "giant!"

last night he also enjoyed 1 fish 2 fish red fish blue fish... but he still said all the fish were "geen"

last night i taught him to "kiss baby sister" and he remembered tonight how to do it (kiss my belly). it's cute. he makes a funny kissing sound, but usually AFTER his mouth has made contact with whatever he's kissing.

well, that's it for now. sorry i don't write more. i find it hard to work all day plus 1 to 2 hours of dominic-craziness in the morning and 1+ in the evenings. i also don't take as many pictures. someday i'll do more. =)

goodnight.