Call It What You Want...

After reading (and laughing heartily) at Terri's most recent post regarding her bright little boy, I have to weigh in as well on some of the funny and strange little things our kid has recently picked up from...well, who knows where?

While Jack (Terri's boy, and the same age as Mark) is practicing counting, all letters and numbers to Mark are still "A". Though he has been known to say "Two, tree" on occasion. But last night (and again today) he picked up a new library book that we hadn't read yet, pointed to a word on the cover, and said "Machine" very clearly. And it was the word. Did I mention we had not even looked at the book yet other than to pull it off the shelf and put it into the library bag???

This evening's pick-up time was heading into disaster when it suddenly took a turn for the better; he even picked up blocks that I didn't hand him and put them into the box. And then, just as it was time to head upstairs, he spotted his new van (which Grandma gave him on her last visit having "found" it. Where did she find it? In her bag, of course. At a store, originally, I'm sure...) and grabbed it. I thought it was headed upstairs with him to bed, but no, gleefully, he skip/hopped across the living room and put it in the bucket with the rest of the cars and trucks (and buses). We know where a successful pick-up time is from (at least that we've been trying), but it's such a refreshing change when we get it.

We're also learning that we have to be rather cautious of what words we say. Yesterday in the car it was "dumb", which of course he repeated gleefully. Grandma and I quickly turned that into a song, and then into "Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb (dum-ditty-dum-ditty-dum-dum-dum)," which was fine with him.

And, for our amusement during church, he's starting to pay attention to what's being said and repeating choice words. Fortunately that's usually "Amen", and a couple weeks ago, at the end of service, as the pastor said "Go in peace, serve the Lord," Mark repeated "Peace! Peace!"

And then there's the appreciation of humor. Just looking at a funny picture of him playing with his cousin Jonathan left him dissolved in giggles.

It's so fun to watch a little boy grow, develop, learn, change. When does it get old?