2013: I Did It!

2013: I Did It!

One morning in September, Emmett, whose total vocabulary was just a few words, threw a toy on the ground, climbed down, picked it back up, held it up and yelled "I got it!" This kid decided to skip right to sentences.

2013.  Let’s recap.

Emmett’s Vocabulary to date:

Yeah

Noooo
I got it!

I did it!

Bubbles

bubble

Show

I do! I do! (Nearly always as a pair)

Wheee!

dip

chip

mama

Daa-deee

apple

bar

sheerpherGIRLS (which means Powerpuff Girls)

emmett

gum gum

bed

baba

wawa (for water)

sip

hug (which really means he wants to be picked up

stop

go

shammy (Sandwich)

up

down

outside

serral (cereal)

car

truck

petty (pretty)

awwww (usually while hugging)

slide

namnah (banana)

niff (sniff)

cheese

grape

baby

bug

puppy

surprise!

waffle

cookie

hi

hello

coffee

block

su-shine

buh-bye

tap

poopoo

butt

please

kookoo for thank you

phone

off

frah-fri (french fry)

sheep

ha-fah for HIGHFIVE.

^ Really, all the words I know are pretty much just more synonyms for those.

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Isabel saw me using my iPhone and asked to see a picture of Doctor Who on it.  As should come as so surprise, I obliged and fed “Doctor Who” into google image search.  One of the first hits was a composite of all 11 Doctors Who.

She pointed at Tom Baker and said “It’s Doctor Who!”

She then pointed at the other gentlemen and asked “Who are those guys?”

I said, “Those guys are also Doctor Who.  They’re all the Doctor.”

She turned to me, and with a very serious and pitying face, said “Those guys are NOT Doctor Who.”

Which I couldn’t actually refute in any way.

So, between that and the fact that Emmett asks me for High-Fives, I’ve basically taught my kids everything I have to teach them.

Other 2013 items of note:

I quit my job and started a new one.  I work for VSP now?

I got to see The Web of Fear, after spending 20 years wishing I could.

We finally planted the Mandarin Tree that's been in a pot for four years.