“We expect sentences by Christmas…”

Ok, so it’s not much of a sentence, but lately Henry has been putting “this is…” before the names of various objects when showing them to me.  “This is David” was the first time I heard this, in reference to a small statue of David that he found on a bookshelf (after he laughed and pointed out David’s “wee wee,” of course). 

Other new tricks:

“Thank you”… both when receiving and giving something, but at least we’re on the right track!

“Uh oh” … whenever he drops something (intentionally or unintentionally)

Pretend sleeping… complete with snoring sounds.  We started reading “The Napping House” recently and I think that’s where he learned it.   He doesn’t do this in his bed or anything, just for fun. 

He can identify Mary as well as Jesus (both as a baby and as an adult, but this is definitely getting more confusing for him).  He does think that Noah’s wife is Mary (from his Ark that he got for his birthday), but she is wearing a blue dress and veil, so I guess I can understand the confusion.  Besides, no one really knows what her name is, so Mary is as good as anything else. 

Movies.  I guess he’s watched enough Veggie Tales to know what a movie is, where we keep them, and what to do with them.  Several times a day, I get requests for a “moomoo.”  I’m so glad we don’t have cable/TV; it would be far too easy to just turn it on to quiet him down! 

He learned Aunt Kathy’s name while we were in MI for Thanksgiving.  The other day when we were looking at pictures of Mommy from high school, he identified them as Kathy, not Mommy.  Oh well. 

“Butts.”  Henry loves pushing buttons of any sort and will often point at them an yell “butts” quite desperately in an attempt to get us to let him push the buttons.  Thermostat, radio, credit card machines at the store… all fair game. 

We’re snowed in today, with an anticipated record-breaking December snowfall for the area.  Great.  Do we have boots and snow gear?  No, not really.  We live in Virginia!  Oh well.  At least we know the word for snow (hint: it sounds just like “nose”).