Aquarium Trip

Over the Christmas break, we took Zac to the aquarium.  It's small enough that it's easy to see everything, and big enough a two year old can get a good run on, just in time to tire him out for a nap.  He really liked the otters, the seahorses and "Nemo".

Literally, nose to the glass, watching "Nemo"

He was decked out in his Ohio State track suit, a Christmas gift from Grandma and Grandpa.  When we stopped to get our tickets, the lady at the counter said "OK, two adults and one little buckeye".

We stopped in the gift shop on the way out (cleverly, the most direct way out of the aquarium is through the gift shop.  "Know your audience" - it's the first rule of stand-up, and apparently the first rule of public attractions, too.)  After a fair amount of deliberation, Zac picked out a stuffed spotted baby seal as his new friend to take home.

After lunch, we were driving home, and he started with the questions.

"People make 'dat?", he asked, holding up his seal.

"Yep, a nice Chinese lady made that," Mark told Zac.

"China lady make 'dat?" Zac repeated.

He spent the rest of the afternoon asking about various things in the house - "China lady make 'dat?", "China lady make 'dis?"

Our little sponge continues to soak things in at a rapid pace. I just hope he's not at childcare asking "China lady make 'dat?" at this exact moment.

Oh, the words you will speak!

Zac and I have started having conversations, like real conversations with reasoning and requests.  Our talk this morning went like this:

Zac: "Mommy?  Mooooowk?"
Me: "Sure, sweetie, I'll get you some milk."

(I had him a cup, fresh from the fridge.  He tastes is, shakes the cup, and holds it out to me.)

Zac: "No.  Cooooooo-wd"
Me: "Would you like it to be warmer?"
Zac: "YEAH! WAAAAAAHM-ER-ER!"

(I take the milk into the kitchen to pop it into the microwave for a few seconds.)

Zac: "Mommy?"
Me: "Yes, Zac?"
Zac: "NOT haaaaawt, Mommy.  NOT HAAAAAWT."

I couldn't help but laugh.  How is possible he's learned cold, warmer-er and hot?  And that he has a preference that he can express about the temperature of his milk?  He amazes me every day!

New words

Z's vocabulary is growing leaps and bounds, and not just in swear words!
Some new words he added this weekend:
* goooookie (cookie, which was actually a cupcake)
* iced tea
* nyat-meeeee-an (batman)
* duper- meeeee-an (superman. He also threw his arms up in the air and grinned from ear to ear while I played the movie theme song to him, as he sat on his toilet and we read a book about superman)
* Ning nong! Ning nong! (Ding dong! Ding dong!)
* "I is reading!" - it got quiet, we asked what he was doing.
* "another booowk mama!"

* we worked hard at singing twinkle twinkle little star. It went a little like this "tinkle tinkle yeeetle tar. What. Are."
Mama! Where tars?!?"
* this morning he was 'I pooped mama' and sitting on his toilet. He heard daddy vacuuming, and he popped up, wearing Thomas the train socks and his shirt and chased his daddy down, bare -assed. "Wanna heeeeeeewp cweeeeean!" (Want to help clean)

Something very important I forgot To add! Zac now says his own name! Thackie. Today he was wearing a super Grover shirt, with super Grovers body and his head sticking out. He deemed himself "THUPER THACKIE" we all applauded


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