“It’s Amazing!”

Max has been a really funny kiddo lately. He’s talking so much and must have hit a new stage of speech development because he’s trying harder to say sentences. We still don’t understand it all, but it’s cute to hear him try new phrases. My favorite is, “It’s Amazing!” He says it about random things that are normal. Love it!

The funniest thing yesterday was that he was acting as Truman’s interpreter.
“Mom, Twu wants na-na.” When really Truman was saying, “night-night”.
“Mom, Twu wants Da-da.” … Which was probably true because Tru does love his Dad.

Yesterday we were playing with legos and Max decided on his own to build a temple. This is what he came up with. We rebuilt it many times because … “Twu bwoke my temple.”

I think Max has been working on his conversation skills as well. At dinner, he’ll turn to me and start talking about his Sunbeams class and his teacher. He’s also turned into more of a parakeet. He imitates Jimmy saying, “Sorry Babe.” or “Love ya Hon.” Of course, always with his big Max smile.

Max has been interested in eye color lately. He asked, “What color eyes, mom? Blue?”. Then he’ll go through the entire family and ask about their eye color.

But is it all smiles and funny sayings. NO! Much of the day he is soooooo dramatic about anyone coming near him or touching him.
“Twu pinched me.”
“Don’t touch me.”
“Twu, no hit me. Be nice me.”
“No Gwab me.”
“Abe squished me.”
“I got scwatch.”

One delightful new thing for Max has been quiet time. Generally his quiet time has lasted about 5 minutes and then he’s banging on the door. Well, this week, a miracle has occurred and he’s spent 1+ hour in his room playing with toys, building airplanes with brick-blocks, looking at books. It’s heaven for this mama. I definitely need quiet time too!

It’s fun to see little ones learn new things. I’m trying to appreciate all the darling things about Max at this stage because there really are so many.