Oh Brecken, where do I even begin with the stories? He says and does things each day that make us laugh but before I can remember to write the first funny down, he’s onto the next. Now that he is putting words together and expressing his thoughts more through words, it’s been so fun! The great thing about a toddler is that you can actually HEAR the wheels of thinking as they form. It’s naive, it’s innocent, it’s pure, it’s BEAUTIFUL.
He has recently started to take inventory of where everyone is…. So each morning, it’s “Mama hooome…” “Dada hooome…. “Gucker (Tucker) hooome…” “Kiki (PJ) hoooooome….” Last weekend when my grandma and cousin from Arizona were home and he was doing this, I asked where Anna was and he said “Nana Bebin hooome.” What a smart boy! Ha. He actually always says everyone is HOOOME all the time. Even when one of us is already at work and the other asks if we are at home or at work, he never says work. I guess he never sees us at work so it is out of his realm of understanding.
This morning, when he was waking up, I heard “All done night night” which I thought was cute.
Not to be an uncaring mother, but I much prefer Brecken to run into complications than have things go perfectly, because his “OH NO!” exclamations just melt my heart. He gets this look of pure concern on his face, scrunches his little nose, and with full care and compassion screeches “OH NOOOO!” He is quite dramatic, which I feel might come from his momma’s DNA 🙂
Brecken absolutely adores his cousins Michael and Julia. He looks at their pictures on the wall and carries their holiday card around. He refers to them as “Ju Ju” and “Mi-mah” and has so much fun playing with them. He has recently started to enjoy giving hugs to people and when we asked him to give a goodbye hug to his cousins, they often end up in a little tiny triplet sandwich of hugs. Oh, it’s just so cute!!
What is on our docket for this blistery Saturday morning? It will likely bring games of choo choos and “ucks” (he currently has a duck game he likes to play with). At some point, he’ll spend time giving his big brother and sister lots of hugs, he’ll read tons of books (Did I mention he now prefers to read books to US rather than us to him?), and