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Emmett napping in his car seat with his doll, Baby Syrup.

#Emmett #Emmett said

More things Emmett said

Here are some of the words Emmett has been using:

Evening

Objects

Conversation

Partially

Actually

Frustrated

Hydrated

Sliver

Slightly

Concerned

Bazaster (disaster)

Basagne (lasagna)

Basposible (disposable)

...

Talking on a piece of railroad track, pretending it’s a phone:

Hello, banana? Are you there? Banana? Yeah, you are there. What are you doing? OK, talk to you later.

...

Mom: Do you know what the holes in your nose are called?

Emmett: Rhinoceros!

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While crying hard, on two separate occasions, Emmett has described the situation in hilariously hypobolic (why isn’t hypobolic a word?) ways:

[wailing] “I’m a little bit sad.”

“I’m not in a very good mood.”

...

Bedtime conversation:

Me: “I love you, sweet pea.”

Emmett: “I love you, sweet Mommy. And I love sweet Daddy.”

Me: “Aw, that’s wonderful! I love you more than anything in the world.”

Emmett: “What is the world?”

Me: “It means everything, everywhere [gesturing all around]. It means I love you the most.”

Emmett: “Oh! I love Daddy the most.”

Me: [laughing, totally not offended] “What about me?”

Emmett: “I love you, too.”

...

On vacation:

Emmett: “After this, we’ll go back to our campsite, and we’ll camp, and then it will be C’s birthday! [Whispering:] Yes, yes. Sure will. Sure will.”

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Emmett: “Hey guys, the fire alarm [on Emmett’s toy fire truck] is making a sound. You need to go outside. I’ll go put out the fire.”

Mommy: “I’m working on my computer, I can’t go outside right now.”

Emmett: “OK, you can go outside when you’re done working on your computer. [Goes into the bathroom, comes out 30 seconds later.] It’s OK, guys, I sprayed water on the fire. You can stay in here.”

Then we explained that in a real fire, we would go outside right away no matter what we were doing.

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Emmett: “Don’t touch the garbage with your hands. The garbage man will come and take it away, and that would be a bazaster [disaster].”

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I swatted a fly. Emmett said, “That was not OK!”

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Emmett: “Mom, that’s mean not to let me play.” It was bedtime, it wasn’t mean.

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After asking many times for Emmett to lie down so I could get his bedtime diaper and pajamas on, I gently pushed him from sitting to lying on his bed. Emmett: “That was rude. You shouldn’t push me, mom.”

Mom: “You’re right, I shouldn’t push you. I’m sorry.”

...

Emmett: “No! That’s mean! I will cry at you!”

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Emmett: “You’re making me frustrated, and you’re making me rude!”

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Emmett: “Do you know there’s a camouflage man? His name is Spin Cycle. He lives in the desert.”

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[above: Emmett showing off a milk mustache]

Here are a few recent conversations with Emmett:

Emmett: Can I have four ___?

Mommy: I’ll give you one.

Emmett : I want four.

Mommy: How about two?

Emmett : How about four?

Mommy: How about none?

Emmett : I want four.

Mommy: This is not going well.

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Daddy: “Time to get out of the shower. You have 10 seconds.”

Emmett : “Four!”

Daddy: “Ten is more than four.”

Emmett : “Six!”

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Emmett: How was your day, Mommy?

Mommy: Thank you for asking. My day was pretty good. How was your day?

Emmett: It was a little bit frustrating.

Mommy: Because you didn’t take a nap?

Emmett: Yeah… it was a little bit rough.

...

I am often amazed by Emmett’s vocabulary. I love it when he uses big words, and when he uses an adverb correctly, as in “that pinwheel is spinning slowly.” Another time, he asked me to attach close the Velcro on a bag for him. I didn’t match up the two sides very carefully. He said “Mom, it’s slightly over the edge.” He has also told me that he’s “concerned” about something. And yeah, he is already calling us Mom and Dad, even though I always refer to us as Mommy and Daddy. This kid will be 3 years old next month.

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I wrote this on March 23, 2015... some of these are no longer in effect one month later.

Expressions Emmett uses frequently:

“Oh man!” = something is disappointing

“Will that be sound good?” = in a negotiation, checking to see if his counter offer will be accepted [and within a couple weeks he made it “does that sound good?”]

“Oh!”

“zehyert” = dessert

Upon receiving an answer of No to his request, Emmett has adapted the phrase “I really, really want it” to “Please, can I really, really have it?”

Emmett requested a toy vacuum cleaner that he could use to vacuum the house. I found a Dirt Devil stick vacuum cleaner for $20 at Target online, so off we went to the store. It was a really fun trip with him. First we ran into a friend of Emmett’s from school, and that’s always very exciting. Then he got to pick out some new jammies. On a whim in the craft aisle, I picked up a wooden letter E and showed it to him. Emmett is always excited to point out the letter E. He used to point to it and say, “That spells Emmett!” Now he says, “There’s an E!!! There’s another E!” I told him he could paint the E and we would hang it up in his room. He was excited about that idea and I let him choose two colors of craft paint. He picked his two favorite colors: “lellow” and orange. Finally we got the vacuum aisle.

Mommy: “Look, here are the vacuums!”

Emmett: “Find the kid vacuums.”

Mommy: “Here is the one for you. Do you like it?”

Emmett: “Yeah!”

Mommy: “This is actually not a toy vacuum. It’s a real vacuum, and it’s yours.”

Emmett: “Oh!”

We were in the car and Emmett asked for a drink from my water bottle. I told him that it was empty. He kept asking for it, despite my repetition that I have no water to give him, and also that we were about 3 minutes from home and he could have all the water he wants when we arrive. This happens frequently. I don’t know how to respond when his insistence flies in the face of logic and reality. So this time, I decided to try to help him understand. I said, “Emmett, give me a cat. Give me a cat.” After a few seconds, he said “here you go!” and gestured that he was handing me something invisible. Of course I accepted the invisible cat and thanked him. He said “it’s a nice cat.” I had to laugh. I had hoped this example would teach him why it’s futile to keep asking for something that I don’t have and therefore can’t give him, but I guess he proved the opposite? Maybe next time I’ll try giving him the invisible version of what he asked for.

On Licking:

On two different occasions I’ve asked Emmett why he puts so many things in his mouth. Both times his response has started “Because I’m a licker,” and the first time it concluded “and I like to put things in my mouth.” The second time it was “and I can eat this ball and it will go in my tummy.” He also tries to lick me, or asks if he can lick me. I usually say no, but occasionally I let him lick the back of my hand. Once I told him that most people do not want to be licked. He told me that he licks everyone, and also that his friend licks everyone. I hope he’s not known at school as the licker.

On where water goes:

When Emmett pours water down the drain of the sink, or the bathtub drains, he often comments that the water will go into the ocean. A couple times he has also stated that when he flushes the toilet, the poop will go to the ocean and become a flower. I don’t know if he came up with that on his own or if he gleaned it from something heard or read, but it’s fairly astute. Matt and I have both told him that it’s true that what goes down the drain goes to the ocean, but first it goes to the wastewater treatment plant, where they take out the toilet paper and make the water clean before it goes into the ocean. He says “oh!”

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This boy is maturing so fast! Pictured: helping sort his own laundry by matching the socks. Last night we had the following conversation.

Mommy: How is that popsicle?

Emmett: (licking a lollipop) It's a lollipop!

Mommy: Oh right, a lollipop!

Emmett: They're a little bit similar.

Mommy: Wow, you're right. That's very good.

Daddy: What is similar about them?

Emmett: (licks lollipop)

Daddy: Are they both things you lick?

Emmett: No, I bite popsicles. (Continues to lick lollipop)

Mommy: They both have sticks. Are the sticks the same or different?

Emmett: This one is white. Popsicles have a brown stick.

Daddy: Why is it brown; what is it made of?

Emmett: It's brown stick.

Daddy: Yeah. It's a wooden stick. What about their temperature. Are they the same?

Emmett: (licks lillipop)

Daddy: Is one warmer than the other?

Emmett: Lollipops are warmer!

The conversation went on, but won't bore you with it. I was just amazed at his spontaneous and apt use of the word 'similar.'

-Kelly

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Emmett said + general update

So sorry for the hiatus! Here's what's up with our family right now.

Emmett started swimming lessons last month and he absolutely loves to be in the water. He is learning to kick, pull with his arms, and put his face in the water. Other things Emmett likes best these days are toy trains, vehicles of all kinds, potty training (I've never seen someone so excited about the fact that he peed), Curious George, dessert, riding his tricycle, and seeing his school friends outside of school (or the idea of that happening).

Here are some of the things Emmett says:

"I love you so much!" and "I love you this much" (with his arms wide), and then "I love you this much and around my back."

When eating something: "This is dinner? Can I have dessert?"

When told he needs to do something: "I will play with my toy for one more minute," or "I will jump off my bed four more times."

Grammatically correct tantrums: "I really want it badly!"

Counting: "one, two, three, four, three, eight, nine, ten." Needs work.

Me: "Today there is no school because it's a holiday." Emmett: "It's a challah day? Where is the challah? I want some."

When I pick him up from school: "Mommy, I missed you all day long!"

Matt is digging up part of our front lawn to widen our driveway so we can park two cars instead of just one. Our street has parking restrictions so this would be a necessity if we ever get a second car, and very appreciated by overnight guests (who have occasionally gotten a ticket and/or nearly towed when we forget to move the car to the other side). Not that exciting, but it's a project. Matt likes to dig. He said maybe he'd like to be a farmer. Matt also finished the covered area in the back yard a while ago, and we never wrote about it. I don't even have a good picture of it! Terrible blogging. We'll try to post something.

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Emmett: Emmett wanna go to work with Mommy.

Mommy: You should go to school. You wouldn't like it at Mommy's work. We have no toys, and no playground. All day we just work on the computer and talk on the phone.

Daddy: That sounds horrible.

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Pronouns, possessive words and contractions

Emmett no longer refers to me always as Mommy when addressing me, he also uses “you” now. He uses “she’s” for her and “he’s” for his, which actually makes complete sense. He still refers to himself in the third person, as Emmett. But he will shorten or contract his name for brevity when used in a sentence. So “Emmett wants almond milk” becomes “Eh wants almond milk,” and “that’s Emmett’s food” becomes “that’s Eh’s food.” Still, if you ask him his name, he will say Emmett. Sometimes Emmett uses words like “mans” and “mouses” and I just feel terrible about the English language. It seems so ridiculous when I explain that although those should be the right words for more than one man and more than one mouse under the usual rules, in these completely arbitrary cases, he must memorize the words “men” and “mice” instead.

Emmett can recognize the difference between letters and numbers, and can name a few by sight, but he really doesn’t understand how they work yet. When asked to count something, he will point to each and say “one, one, one, one, one…” He does correctly use the number two pretty consistently, and sometimes three. His favorite “number” is six-seven-eight. In our pre-pumpkin patch conversations, I would ask how many pumpkins he wanted to get. He would say, “Emmett pick big pumpkins, little pumpkins. Six-seven-eight pumpkins. We eat all!” And the other day at the park, it was almost time to go home, so I told him he could throw his bouncy ball two more times. He said “Emmett throw it six-seven-eight times!” I let him throw it eight times. Such a pushover.

His vocabulary is growing fast. He uses words like “actually,” “statue,” and “favor.” Probiotic (which he pronounces “pregogic”) is still my favorite. Emmett will tell us stories sometimes, and they’re hilarious. He told us one the other day about a spider that had a web and could fly (I think), and it was accompanied by all sorts of gestures and facial expressions.

-Kelly

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I read about your samsung dryer side vent project and wanted know whether you had to access the back of the dryer at all to take it apart? I have the same setup as you do but it's difficult for me to get to the back of the dryer as it is inside a cramped closet.

Hello! If you take the dryer apart and remove the drum, you can do the entire conversion from the front/inside. I think the only time I pulled it away from the wall and went around the back was to attach the cover plate over the access panel in the back, but there are other ways you could accomplish that. Either find someone with long arms to reach behind the machine and attach the access panel, or as a last resort, use foil tape to attach the access panel from the inside.

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Matt had just brought the dogs home from a romp and swim at the dog park. They were still a bit damp. Emmett and I walked into the kitchen and had this conversation, which didn't go how I thought it would:

Me: Hello, dogs. Emmett, the dogs are kind of smelly.

Emmett: Get new ones.

Me: We'll just give them a bath.

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Lots of painting

Matt has been working on this thing whenever he gets a chance. At the beginning, there was a lot of discussion about placement, depth, height, how the structure would be supported, not impeding our nice view from the kitchen, etc. Then lots of string line to get it lined up. Digging holes, pouring concrete footings. Posts. Beams. Uh, those things that go perpendicular to the beams. A lot of temporary bracing and scaffolding. Painting. Painting. More painting.

Emmett wants to paint like Daddy.

But mostly, Emmett talks about how he will "knock down Daddy's building." Because in 2-year-old world, you build something and then you immediately knock it down. It's the cycle of life.

#DIY #carpentry #awning #greenthumbmatt #covered pergola

Emmett said: More again!

Some of Emmett's current favorite words and phrases (and translation as needed):

More again

Own self (myself, yourself, etc.)

Rabby (raspberry)

Fighter pighters (fire fighters)

See you next time

Mac and noonles and cheese (mac and cheese)

Right there!

Emmett has started to ask “Why?” He does it in this really funny voice, too. I’ll have to get a video. No amount of explaining quells the stream of whys, they just keep coming.

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Sneak peek at the big project! Matt is working hard and making progress.

#home improvement #carpentry #greenthumbmatt

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Emmett loves the ball thrower (Chuck-it). He decided to carry it in his shirt. Here are some funny things he's said lately.

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Me: Emmett, you’re so silly, why did you do that?

Emmett: Reason.

He always answers “reason” to any Why question. I don’t know where he learned it. I persist with “what is the reason?” but I don’t get any more info.

Me: Emmett, how did you get that owie on your leg?

Emmett: Reason.

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Other words/phrases I find amusing coming out of the mouth of a two-year-old:

Sounds good.

Wait a minute.

Thank you.

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Yesterday we saw a couple riding a tandem bike. Emmett said “two people riding bike.” I explained that a bike for two people is called a tandem bike, and he repeated it. Later that evening, out of the blue I asked Emmett what is the name of a bike for two people. He thought for a few seconds and then said “panda.”

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This morning, I said “bye-bye Emmett, have a great day, I love you.” Emmett said “love you,” and then he turned around and said “kiss,” came back to me and gave me a hug and a kiss. Be still my heart!

-Kelly

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Emmett’s favorite words and phrases:

Way far away

Way up there

Emmett no like it this one

Love you (or sometimes, No love you)

Catty [kitty cat]

Garbage truck

Seashell

Oregon

Seattle

Lie-lie [library]

Owie zowie

Tyin’, ice [someone is crying, needs ice (for owie)]

Love it

Emmett big boy

Please, okay?

Emmett says translation

Wubbin’ back rub my back

Ponano tomato

Potato potato

Emmett is great at learning the names of people and animals! He can name all of his relatives and their pets, all of his classmates and some of their siblings and parents, and our friends and neighbors.

-Kelly

p.s. Matt is working on a BIG project in the backyard. We will share details soon!

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It's all about the language development these days. Well that, and running - fast - and playing with water, reading books, doing puzzles, and pretending to cook food.

Emmett’s favorite words and phrases:

Ditch digger

Whoo-whoo truck (fire truck)

Dump truck, rumble rumble

Grocery store, PCC

Little one, big one

Emmett run away

Fast

Mommy, wake up!

Help you

Booger

Dirty, clean it up. Dust pan, clean it up.

Swimming

This one please

Slug (We saw some big ones on a recent camping trip at Deception Pass, and every morning and night for the next week, Emmett asked to see the pictures of slugs on my phone. Here's one.)

Chilly day at the beach, still fun!

Kelly

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