A Couple Nostalgic Videos

I happened upon these videos yesterday on youtube when I was doing some research for a puppet skit for our ward activity. Hope they make you feel like a kid again.

Talking!

The other day Cal was holding my hand while we went up the stairs. Half-way up he stopped and I couldn't get him to keep going. He was babbling something, but I didn't pay attention because I was in a hurry to get him to the top of the stairs. My other hand was full of stuff, so I couldn't pick him up. Finally I realized what he had said was, "Shoes.....shoes.....uh-oh..." I looked down at his sandals and his toes were sticking out of the straps. Once I fixed that, he was fine to keep going. It just took me aback how he had tried to put those words together to try to convey something that was wrong. I was pretty excited.

Lately, it seems Cal has had a huge boom of new words. He has started repeating (or trying to repeat) everything we say. I made a list of all the words he uses regularly, and it was longer than I expected:

Baby
Basketball
Again
Amen
Juice
Jesus
Daddy
Mommy
Dog
Birdie
Airplane
All Done
More
Mommy
Guitar
Phone
(which sounds more like "boam..."
but we know what he's talking about)
Draw
Straw
Truck
Stuck
Outside
Cheese
Please
Bubble
No
Yes
Bye-bye
Shoes
Uh-oh
Spoon
Blue
(as in, the cartoon character,
not the color)
Book

Anyway, this is a fun stage for us. It's fun to be able to hear his voice and some of the thoughts going on in his head. It's also nice to have him be able to tell me what he wants or what's wrong. He's just a great guy. Here are a couple more pictures of him being silly.