Little Dancing

Coca Cola

Not sure how but the kid knows about “coca cola” and yes we dring soda at home but it’s usually pepsi so it leads me to believe that some at the day care is talking about coke. Anyway, the other day he sees his dad getting the pepsi bottle out of the fridge and of course the following comes out: “Daddy, I want coca cola!”…”No, Vanie, cola is for grown ups only”… “Ok, daddy….maybe Tuesday?”… “No, Vanie, you are not a grown up yet”…”Ok, daddy!...what about Saturday?”. Eventually, he gave up.

The Silly Things We Say

No Touching
1) One of the times we were at Pier1 Imports we warned Vanie not to touch anything. Of course , that still didn’t stop him from touching pretty much everything he past and at the end breaking one glass ball (not sure why I was naïve enough to believe he will listen to me). After that incident, we keep telling him “NO TOUCHING” when is the any stores.
So… the following weekend we go to the same store and Jason and I start with “Vanie, remember, no touching anything in the store!” good 20 minutes before we get there. We get there and just before we go in Vanie says to us: “Remember, no touching! Only seeing!”
2) No the plot line for every store is “no touching”, the problem is that Valso starts screaming it at me when I touch something. I am pretty sure everyone in the Homegoods store heard him the other day. I guess we are not there yet – no touching means not touching … for everyone, not just him!

What’chya doing?
1) A few weeks ago I caught Vanie almost glued to the TV (too close up) and while he was watching he was resting one of his thumbs on his pants pocket. I startled him asking “Vanie, what are you doing?” (meaning why are you so close to the TV) and Vanie’s response was “Nothing, I am putting my hand in my pocket!” – I guess it’s my fault for not clarifying the question…
2) The newest thing now when asked what he is doing, Vanie responds “I not doin anything!”
That’s not so bad!
1) Last night, we had grilled salmon with mashed potatoes and Vanie pretty much refused to even try it until his dad made him understand he doesn’t have a choice. So, Vanie tries a mix of both on his fork and we get the following reaction with Vanie’s arms up in the air: “Ooh, that’s not so bad, mommy!!! I’ll eat it!”

Flip flops
It’s amazing what kids get excited about. We recently got Vanie flip flops and although I don’t think he finds them comfortable he still likes to wear them because mommy and daddy have and wear them, too. For the first few days after he got them, he would randomly go to his day, pat him on the back and say “Daddy, I have flop flops… they are MY flip flops, MINE!”

Favorite Words

About 4 months ago and just before going on vacation, vanie’s favorite words were:
• Sure … “Vanie, do you want milk?”… “Um, sure, mommy”
• Almost … “Are we almost done?”
• Thanks instead of thank you
No we are way beyond these and his favorite word is…”Same”. He loves to say “mommy your’s is same same as mine”
Some of the words he is using lately but are not coming out right:
- Mirror – sounds more like “Muriol”
- Beautiful – sounds more like “boootiful”
- Ambulance – sounds more like “ambooliance”
- Bowling – he calls it “bowling ball”