First Day of Mother's Day Out aka "Monkey Day"

At the Clay compound, we refer to MDO as Monkey Day. This comes from when I was little, my first MDO teacher was named, Ms. Mickey. I called her Ms. Monkey which turned into Monkey Day. The tradition continues with my little peanut.

By the way, this is the first time in his 2 1/2 years that he has fully cooperated and posed for pictures. I about croaked. The sitting and smiling was all his idea. I think it was because he was just so excited about his new "Light Queen" lunchbox and backpack!

For those of you that know my little Sambo, you know that he is quite the Mama's boy. He loves his Mama and his Mama loves him. This is the first time he has been out of the nest with the exception of the church nursery. This being said, we were expecting for MDO to be a full out kicking and screaming torture chamber. He shocked us all! He walked right in, asked for his lunch box and told me bye bye. Of course, I still cried.

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Handy Sammy

Sam loves to put his toys inside the hole of Daddy's speaker. This is usually nothing short of a big fat pain. You have to get a screw driver and take the back off the speaker where you find an entire treasure chest of goodies he has been stockpiling since your last retrieval. The other day, he started saying "Where'd train go?" (which he knew good and well where it was) and I said, "I don't know". He then said, I'll get it and took off like a streak of lightening to the kitchen. He weaseled his little 2 year old hand into the drawer, past the "child proof lock" and came back with a screwdriver. He proceeded to correctly line up the end with the screw (a phillips head mind you) and attempt to take off the back. Holy cow. I about croaked. I eventually had to step in and help but it just goes to show you how much they are paying attention. It's kinda cool and scary at the same time :).

This is where I've been....

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Don't tell him it's not a bow bow...

Sam is starting to talk like a mad man (or like his mama). All the time. You know those cute little things they say wrong that you don't want to correct because it's just so darn cute?!?! I know you other mama's know what I'm talking about. I'm sure day #1 of Mother's Day Out, they'll teach him that the sequence of numbers isn't always 1, 2, 9...and I'm pretty sure they will be chomping at the bit to help his little 2 year old lips carefully sound out the word firetruck when right now, bow bow works just fine. I can't stop time, all I can do is write it down and video. So here it goes.....

burbay - birthday
i cwane - icecream
chuch - church
bow bow - fire truck
bow bow house - fire station
whoa mama - i love you mama
bawoon - balloon
ack ack - duck
ooh ooh - monkey
house - any and all doors
duh - Clifford
duh - Also GranRita
wee ahh - yee hah!, cowboy hats or anything western
foap - soap
wa wa - water
gucka - sucker
No No & Ree - Owen & Rudy
budin' budin' - his 4 wheeler
1, 2, 9 - anything and everything he counts
baa baa - banana
boo boos - blueberries
meth - mess
awful - waffle
co-whoa - color
stink snack - (while holding his nose) Pringles Baked Pizza Sticks
bee bee - baby (anything that's smaller than others like it..stuffed animal, rock, piece of chicken)
Din Din - Grandad
Wee Ket - hair cut
aaaallllll dunt - all done
fweens - friends
sit down - chair
car sit down - car seat
white back - right back (he says this anytime we leave him, "Mama, Daddy white back"
bawoon - balloon
ooo ooo - monkey
elf - elephant
nosh - nose
eee - ear
mouf - mouth
deet dee - cookie
way caa - race car
bay - bug
drat - donut
T - tv
T On - remote control
dat doo - tractor

Summertime, Summertime, Sum Sum Summertime...