Max: What’s wrong with the watermelon?
Aki: It has pits.
Max: Why did you put pits in it?
Aki: It grows that way. When I was a kid, that’s how all watermelon looked.
Max: Does it taste good?

[He tastes it]

Max: Oh, wow, that’s good!
Aki: Don’t eat the pits.

Max thought I put pits in the watermelon!!

For the last two nights, the moon has been very bright even though it is not full. Elliot points at it and says, “Moo! Moo!”

Tonight he didnthe same, while we were in the pool, and he also added, “Mine!”

I said, “Do you want the moon?”

“Ok, moon”

Ok, I’ll give you the moon”

And i wish i could.

Picked these up at Genesis Electronics Recycling of Colorado. I love this place!

These are actually from 1981 I think, but they are very 1970s-looking. I already have a Televideo 912c and 910 already, now I have two more Televideos 910s that both work.

Karolina is not pleased.

Elliot saw this wrapper in the grass next to the house and said “Doo? Doo?”

He also pointed to a bunny in The Troll who had a carrot and said “Carro? Carro?” (He already can say bunny).

Today Elliott wanted to sit in the driver’s seat and pretend to drive. So he sat there in my lap while we drove around the Mueller Drive circle, both of us holding the wheel. When the music came on, he started tapping the steering wheel just like me. I loved it.

In the driveway, he obsessed about using the CD player, changing the discs and bouncing his head shaking his fists when the music played, again copying what he’s seen me do.

These are the little things that make a home.

Max, Elliot, and went to Target to buy water guns and water balloons. Elliot was hungry. Just inside the entrance was a BBQ display with hamburger rolls for sale. Elliot pointed at the them and said, “Hallah, hallah!” over and over.

I’m so proud that my baby knows about challah: he bakes a little challah roll every Friday at Garden Preschool and brings it home.

Later that night, I pretended to eat challah from my hand and offered some to Elliot. He was quite surprised; either that I knew about challah (since we don’t use that word at home much) or that I had some, I could not tell. He gobbled up the pretend challah and laughed. We played that game a few times.

Went to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Lion is yion. Raff is giraffe

He now repeats what I say if I ask him.

He says slide at the playground.

Mail is the name of the playground next to the school. Yesterday he asked to get the mail, pointing down the street and saying “mail”. When we got the mailbox, which he opened with me lifting him up, I headed for home, but Elliot headed to the school playground. I said “Home. home” and he said “no, mail!” and ran towards the playground.

I’ve been trying to get Elliot to say “three” for weeks now. After I say, “one, two, …”, I tell him to say “three”. This is right before we jump through the sprinkler or I throw him up in the pool (catching him in my arms), or pretend to throw him into the bathtub.

He finally did it yesterday: “free” !

He also pointed at a picture of a spider in a book and said “bIda“! I kissed him and told him how proud I was, then asked him to say it again. Usually he does not repeat when I ask him to, but this time he did: “bIda“. And he says it with a question at the end, raising his voice up as if he’s uncertain. I feel so happy for him.

Tonight Max and i finished Operation Valkyrie,a movie released the year he was born and which i last watched with my father. Max had been asking to watch this movie for several weeks.

He really liked it.

But he can’t pronounce Goebbles so he says “Googles“. I could not stop laughing.

Shishen for chicken

FLA for flower

“hel me” for help me (while playing with the wooden train playtable — whenever a train would derail)

TI for tiger then shortly this became Tiga

BA for bat

Pla for play

Ca for cat (actually this is old)