James Says / Amelie Says / Leah Says

While we were remodeling the kitchen we had the microwave stored in the playroom. James asked, "Can we keep it?"

This fascination had some unexpected consequences, though, when James thought I was too slow with his after school snack and decided to take matters into his own hands by warming up Spaghettio's in the microwave - by putting the entire can in the microwave! There were sparks (possibly flames) and I thought the whole thing was ruined (but at least the house didn't burn down - and it turns out the microwave is fine, too). After things had calmed down, James asked Sam, "How do you make Spaghettio's?"

One day James very seriously asked me, “Did you know emojis weren’t always a thing?”

James got into trouble at school the other day and I guess is still feeling salty about it. This morning, he said, "I wish school wasn't a thing." And then a pause, "And work wasn't a thing." And then an even briefer pause, "And money wasn't a thing." 

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We made Sam cupcakes for his birthday and the first batch turned out crumbly, so the kids and I turned them into cake balls (which I had never had before). Anyway, we needed chocolate chips to coat the cake balls, and I said I’d pick them up on my way home from work. I guess Amelie missed that I would be at work because after supper she exclaimed to Sam that “Mama went out for chocolate chips hours ago!”

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Leah is saying all kinds of things! She's not terribly clear & they're mostly just one and two-word utterances. She's been saying "Mama, um on! Um on, Mama!" and motioning with her hand for me (or James or whoever she's talking to) to come on!

The one 3-word construction I can think of is, "I need Elmo." (Or whatever else it is that she needs.)

Edited to add: I can’t believe I forgot, “Mama, up me!” Meaning, ‘Mama, pick me up!” And then she said what might have been her first 4-word sentence today, “I need a diaper!”

She seems very concerned with who things belong to, and will say "Mama's phone," or joke and say, "It mine."

When we were cooped up in the playroom while the workers were here, I let her watch 'Baby Shark' on my phone. She started asking for "Baby doo doo," but now she'll say "Baby Shark!" She also really likes the song "Are you sleeping?" and will intone "Are you sleeping" over and over. She does this with "Row, row, row your boat" as well - where she'll just repeat "Row row" over and over.

Here's a list (as far as I know - I'm sure I'm leaving some off) of all of her words:
Hi
Bye Bye
Please ('please' and 'more' are the only signs that she still does - and 'more' is fairly infrequent)
No
Yeah
More
Uh-oh
Yuck
Hot

Leah
Mama
Dada
James (Ames!)
Amelie (More like 'Ah-me' than when James would just call her 'Ahm')
Nana
Papaw
(Grandma) Mary
Holly
Elmo

Cat / meow
Puppy dog
Duck / quack
Bird / tweet
Shark
Cow / moo
Horse / neigh
Pig / oink
Monkey / ki ki
Dragon / roar!
Bug

Milk
Water
Snack
Breakfast
Cheese
Berries
Spoon (poon!)
Chicken
Banana (nana!)
Grape
Apple
Cracker
Chips
Juice
Bite
Cookie
Ice Cream (I keem!)
Sauce (apple sauce)
Yogurt
Egg
Pepper (as in a green pepper)
Popcorn

Bath
Go
Walk
Work
Stuck
Kiss
Up
Draw
Come on!
Google! (Aunt Holly gave us a Google Mini and Leah mimics the rest of us shouting "Hey Google!" at it.)
Wash
Zip
Want (not terribly clear pronunciation, but the intent gets across)
Need
The end!

A
Mine
My
I
Me
It
This
All done
All gone

Jammies
Shoes
Boot
Jacket
Pocket
Ring
Backpack
Pants

Baby (this is both an adjective and a noun)
Ball
Phone
Soap
Book
Bed
Pillow
Blanket
Schnucks (Nooks!)
Outside
Nap (frequently 'No nap!' even though she goes down easily)

Diaper
Pee
Poop
Wipe
Potty (can you tell we are potty training?)

Eye
Nose
Mouth
Cheek
Chin
Neck
Thumb
Butt
Button (belly button)

That's over 100 words!