Excerpts from Sunday, June 1, all from Rowan (2 yrs, 3wks old)

I no sleep with Mommy and Daddy

Daddy fork upside down

No I want it

Mommy I want get you up in my lap

Ambulance, I want see ambulance

I want feed kitty

That a dinosaur

I want build dinosaur again

[stegosaurus] This has big ?? on back.

I want shapes.  [What shapes, a circle?]  Is like sun

That’s Rowan’s cheese.  I want go in Central Park.  Big park.  I like it.  I like cheese.  I want more cheese.  Yep.

Lalala Elmo song.

Oh that water.  I like water.

Peach!  I like it!  Mommy want to peel it.  No hit seed.  Oh it still soft.  Is ball!  Is slippery.  [Are you all done?]  No, I still started

I want to cough.  Eheheh.  That’s not cough. EHEHEH.  That a big cough!

I want more peach.

That’s a big hole.  I see little fingers.  Oh it’s stuck!

Come back Daddy.

Hi Mommy

[To Pinky the stuffed pink monkey holding a soccer ball]  Hi Pinky.   I want see it.  I want soccer ball, Pinky.  Oh what’s that?  That’s a ball!

Mommy spin it.  Oh it spinning.  I want to kick it.  I want to roll both.  Is rolling both!  Come back here.  I catching ball.  I need this one.  Bye Mommy.  No going bye bye?  I going bye bye.  I want go outside.

I want put lid on.  It stuck.  Want take it off.

Is Mommy story

Yes I whistled

That zero stars.  I want w’s.

I take it off by self.  Is needed no help.

Daddy I want this one.  I reach up.

I pick up ball.  I pick up this ball.  I want this ball.

Reach under there

Oh that’s both.

I want build crane truck.

No Daddy that’s not nice.

I want take it off.  It too big.

Want truck game.  That dump truck.  That jingle bell.  Hey jingle bells . . .  Oh that not jingle bell.  Oh no!  No touch bubbles.

No need socks.  I want this stroller.  I want bring dump truck.  No that Rowan dump truck.  I push.  Good bye.

Oh that’s pigeons.  I want to see it.  I want see much better.

I want fall.  I want time out.  I want chicken.  Oh I get tape.

Oh what’s that?  Daddy read it.  Excavator, motorcycle, dumptruck.

I got it.  I take it.

That mousie from mixer truck.  That a chute.  That part of excavator, crane truck.

Scuse me.  I want to go.

Helicopter it’s going to sky.

 

[And in case you don’t believe me]

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And a birthday too!

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All pooped out from all that fun

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And in case you were worried we were neglecting the rest of his development

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After so much fun, all you really want at the end of the day is a good thumb

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And some mommy hair