Conversations with a two year old

As Eli's vocabulary grows daily, we're having more and more interesting conversations. Yesterday when he woke up from his nap, his mind was on amusement parks. He was telling me all about how he wanted to ride the roller coaster, but it was scary so he'd rather stay on the ground. He then told me he wanted to ride on the big choo choo train with Grandma. Daddy could come too, but not Liam because he is too little and would be too scared. Liam has to ride on the little choo-choo train, and mommy can ride with him so he's not by himself. Eli would take Liam on the bumper cars with him, and for the bumper cars, Daddy could not come because Daddy is too scared and too big. Mommy, however, is cleared to go. When I'd ask him if various people could come (Tito Ben, Tita Ann), he'd put up both hands, think about it, and say in a high pitched voice... um, sure! Sure he(she) can come! It was so funny I was laughing out loud.

Also yesterday, we had people stop by the apartment to look at our faucets (from a company the building hired to save money on the water bill). Eli was SO excited to see them and did not stop talking to them from the moment they arrived to the moment they left. Sometimes the things he said were funny... "Hey, Man! I have tools, too! I fix my motorcycle with my hammer!" and sometimes the things were just embarassing... "Mommy, that guy looks mean! I don't want him to beat me!" (By beat me, he meant as in racing... but the man didn't know that and was like - oh my God, why would you say that?).

Eli has been HUGE into reading the past two days, in part cause I got new books from the library with the crinkly covers. At first, he wanted them OFF (he alllllways rips the cover off the book we are reading), but now I think he kind of likes the novelty of it. We read 23 books today (sometimes several times in a row) and it took us about an hour and a half (thank you, Liam, for taking a good nap today). He's still BIG into the curious George series and has to stack them all up PERFECTLY in a big "tall tower of books!" and dole them out to me, in his chosen order (God forbid I go out of order). He's also loving fairy tales, like goldilocks, little red riding hood, etc... It's fun to go back and look at the absurdity of all of these fun little stories. (I mean really.... we're going to cut open the wolf's belly with SCISSORS and take little red riding hood out?....).

After nap time today, we're heading up to Rachna's to play with Dexter/Quinn... I'm so excited!