colors

this morning linus surprised me by spontaneously identifying my shirt as yellow.  or more like "lllelllow."  i think he's got the hang of blue too.  i'm playing it cool, as usual.

the potty situation

until further notice, if you see linus using the potty by himself, DO NOT SAY OR DO ANYTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY.  no congratulations, no gold star stickers, nothing like that -- it's totally a workaday thing to use the toilet.  we go about our business while he goes about his.

yesterday at breakfast

i am checking my email over a bowl of oatmeal.  i don't think linus can see the iphone on which i am checking the email.

linus: "papa!  no ipod!"

it's going to be a long childhood.

today's developments

• learned to use a drinking straw
• made a joke pronunciation of "elephant" ("efeladladladladla")
• expressed preferences about animals at the zoo (most favored: fish; lions)
• first big-box wholesale experience
• first "kid's meal" (it was free)

multi-word phrases

other phrases we've heard:

• "beach bag"
• "wash (long pause) hands"
• "papa, sit"
• "i want some geek" (grapes)
• "pie book" (referring to this book)
• "up (pause) stairs"
• "downthere"

names and taxonomies

linus learned the name of a friend's neighbor's cat just before they moved away (taking their cat with them).  the cat's name is mufasa.  linus says "moofascia bao."

possessive adjective & a number

"my water."  "two cups."

proceeding apace

more walking

more and more walking. it seems to be becoming his default. we will miss the crawling.

tonight he picked up a book and walked around looking for grandma L saying "gapa? book."

nearly walking

still experimenting with walking! still doing it in fits and starts.