Nathan’s got a few new things up his sleeve lately. For a couple days we caught him saying Mom or Dad instead of Mommy or Daddy, but that seems to have stopped.

He’s often asking us “where that come from?” or “what that noise?” A lot of times he already knows the answer, but it’s cool to see the inquisitive side peeking out.

He asks us to “hold my hand” a lot when we’re taking walks, which is sweet. Some of our neighborhood doesn’t have sidewalks and he knows that when we’re walking in the street he has to hold our hands, so I think that’s where it came from.

Nathan’s doing more make believe or pretend play lately. He likes to put his little rubber ducky in the drivers seat of his dump truck and tell me “ducky drive” and he built a tower of MegaBloks, then stood the little MegaBlok man in front of it and told us it was the man’s backpack (watch Dora much? Ha.)

We’ve heard him singing Ba Ba Black Sheep and the ABC’s all the way through. He sings lots of other songs too, last night he was attempting “Take me out to the ballgame”, which he’d learned at school that day. He’s also getting the hang of “yours” rather than everything being “mine mine mine”. (Although he has started a very fun phase of “I need that” to just about anything and everything he sees.)

Nathan seems to be developing a little sense of humor too. We read The Runaway Bunny a lot before bed and there are a couple pages where the Little Bunny is kind of hiding so I always ask Nathan where the Little Bunny is. Lately he will point to all the wrong places, occasionally looking up at me with a mischievous grin, before finally pointing to the place where he very well knew the Little Bunny was all along. Goof.