Weasel Of Doom

DemonChild pulled the Hulk video from the shelf. BelovedSpouse, ever the helpful parent, told him the green guy was Hulk, and that Hulk says “Smash.” So now DemonChild walks around, saying “Hulk MASH” – too precious for words.

DemonChild is getting more and more verbal. Though often we still have no idea what he is trying to say, he is building up his vocabulary and is definitely understanding a lot more, as well. He can count to twelve in English and in Russian, and knows most of the numbers by sight, as well. When we read books, he would point out page numbers, and be correct 80% of the time. He also likes to repeat the alphabet (English and Russian) after us. Sometime he would just sit there and say random letters (“A,” “G,” “F”) with great satisfaction. He is now very clear that I am Mommy and BelovedSpouse is Daddy. At dinner, he pointed at BelovedSpouse and said “Daddy” and then pointed at me and said “Mommy.” Our friend Jason, who once got called Mommy by DemonChild, can now relax :-)

On the way home Tuesday, DemonChild pulled off his shoe and was chewing on it. I told BelovedSpouse that, got very little reaction. Until after they got back home from food shopping, and BelovedSpouse yelled up the stairs, “I now know what you meant when you said DemonChild was chewing his shoe. I though you were talking figuratively before.” Which now makes me wonder how one can figuratively chew a shoe….

We switched to a new cartoon. Now we watch three Russian cartoons about a boy and a dog and a cat, who live in the village of Prostokvashino. There is also a bird who can say “Kto tam?” (“Who is there?”). Now DemonChild can say “Kto tam?” too.

Another cool thing is that now DemonChild likes to read books. He would pick one, come to us, and say “Book!” Then he’ll sit on our lap while we read to him, and point out things he knows. He can identify many of the books by the first words of what’s inside — “I am Sam,” “Tili-bom,” “I love you through and through” (though ‘through and through’ tend to come out rather garbled, he does try).

DemonChild tries to play with Squeeker, but is still somewhat unclear on the concept of not stepping on baby or sitting on his head. I was telling him “No” the other day as he tried to walk over his brother, and he looked at me and said “No” back and shook his head. Too cute to stay mad at.

DemonChild likes to push the garage door open button when they leave for daycare in the morning. Sometimes, we deliberately close the door just so he can open it.

I moved my plants from the great room to the living room, and now DemonChild has fun playing with his trains on the seat of the bay window.

He climbs everything like a little monkey. If there is a hard way to get from point A to point B, DemonChild will pick it – otherwise, where is the fun?

Ugh, it is 5 am and Squeeky is crying, so away I go…..