SHADE-ISMS

We were walking in Walmart awhile back and Shade said "Ewe, gross!" I asked "What's gross?" He replied "I wasn't talking to you mommy, I was talking to my shoes."

We were playing around and talking about how babies are stinkier than grown-ups because babies smell like "poo and pee" and Shade added "and farteds."

Kellen was sitting on the couch and asked Shade to go grab him a soda out of the fridge - Shade came back with 4 sticks of butter and said "Here's you soda, daddy."

Kellen was in the shower when a small hand with his cell phone came around the curtain into the water with a "here you go, daddy." He is very helpful :)

Shade saw one of our pictures of our wedding day at the temple. We told him a little bit about it. He has since started saying "I want to marry in the temple like mommy and daddy." He also started saying "I want to marry to a girl." Then when Kellen asked him which girl he wanted to marry he said "I want to marry mommy." We told him I am already married to daddy, but it was cute.

I have recently introduced the idea that babies are in mommys' bellies as he has seen pictures of me and my sisters/friends pregnant. He recently started saying he wants to have his own baby too... :)

When we give family cuddles at night he often gives us both hugs at the same time and says "I love my family" with a great big smile on his face. Then sometimes he will add "and I love shade (he, he, he)." We also like to give him squishy-face kisses. Afterward he will say "now it's daddy's turn for squishy kisses." Then my turn. What a fun kid! Its moments like these that makes me think - its not that its worth staying together for your kids, its that your kids make it worth working on your relationship.

When Shade doesn't want to sleep in his own bed, he will say to Kellen "I just want to cuddle for 5 more minutes, Daddy." Hard to say no to. We need to get another bedroom :)

When he wakes up, he will usually look at us, smile and say "I waked up."

Shade really likes to run. He will often growl at one of us and say "I gonna get you" and chase us until he gets us, then he will tell us to chase him/get him. And sometimes when I am tickling him he will say "Eat me mommy!" with a big grin of anticipation on his face.

He has recently started eating more. Awesome. He had almost finished a whole peanut butter sandwich one night when I praised him for doing such a good job eating and said he will get big like Kellen and he said "I'm growing like a man."

One day Kellen and Shade were going out to do an errand. I said, "give me kisses bye-bye, or I will be sad." He said, "Mommy, when we leave are you gonna cry like a baby?"

We haven't had much luck with mattresses. Recently, we took the foam topper off the bed and put it on the floor for a few days (it feels pretty good on our backs). Kellen told Shade it was in the "living room," so Shade says "are we gonna sleep in the Living Bedroom?"

The other night Shade was very chattery, which is not like him at night. He kept telling the same story about how he burned his finger on the stove (surprise! daddy was right when he said it was hot!). In the middle of his story he said "I can talk and talk and talk and talk..." And then he kept telling his story :)

Of course he is still a 2-1/2 yr old. Now that he is so verbal, he says whatever is on his mind. Sometimes he will say to me "don't hurt me mommy!" when I do something he doesn't like, such as remove him or his hand from a situation or give him a time-out. I know I am not actually hurting him, but he has said it in public a couple times now. Luckily, no one was listening. However, this could create a problem...

He has also started getting verbal when he does not get his way. He will say "be nice to me!" when I don't let him do something or refuse to give him something he wants (like candy). Sheesh.

But one of the sweetest things, he has also started recognizing when he has done something he shouldn't. Sometimes after he gets disciplined, he will say to me "don't be mad at me, mommy" with a sad look on his face. How could I be mad at that?