This and that...

Dude loves the W!ggles. 
They are a go to favourite CD in the car and he knows lots of the words.

Like
money money money money duit dalade!
(yummy yummy yummy yummy fruit salad)

And he loves Wake Up Jeff
But we sing it Wake Up Ben, obviously.
And the dude can fall alseep and expect a whole verse at any moment.
Today's most memorable moment was in the check out line at Price Chopper.
So I sang.  Entertained the masses he did with his wake up routine.

Also, the manh is getting bossy.  Sweetly bossy (well, mostly sweet).
I'm changing a messy diaper.  I"m cleaning him up.
He is offended by the cleaning process lately.
"Pees Mama, no do dat pees"

It's bed time.  We have read about 15 books. 
He has the opportunity to choose just one more. 
He clearly understands the concept of one. 
"Dorda and Boots book mama"
He also knows we do not own a D0r@ book.
"Sorry sweetie, we have no D0r@ books.  How about Di@g0?"
His response?
"Mama, no Dorda and Boots no seep Ben.  oday?"
So not oday...but he held it against me and took 55 minutes to go to sleep.

And yesterday?  He wanted to be ome...he loves being ome.
On our way to see Uncle Matt, a favourite person in the universe
he really wanted to be ome.  But loving Matt he was confilicted
So he had a fit.  A 20 minute fit.
It went something like this...

"no Mat-chew ome.  Ben ome. pees.
ice cream mama me ice cream
cady, cady, cocolat cady pees
mama d0rda book mama pees ome now
no mat-chews ome no nana ome mines mines mines
no nap pees w!ggles on TV
no diiiiiiper mama mik baba me mama"

A long and slightly repetitive list
of all the things he loves and hates most in life
that made him angry or very happy at some point. 
Looking, searching for a reason to have a fit. 
A long fit.  So very special.

In other news...
he happily sat on the big boy potty today for 15 minutes
left the potty
peed on the hall carpet

we visited a tot gym program today
lots of positives
he wanted in on the action immediately
engaging instructors, fun, wonderfully paced
new developmentally appropriate equiptment
more than 50% of the kids were Chinese or Vietnamese (8 /14)
so I forked out the cash
we start mid september.

Found the backup camera battery charger.
(regular one is at the cottage)
Charged the batteries.
Tomorrow we are walking up town
and taking the historic steam train.
He is going to LOVE it!
Pictures to follow of course.