Out of Bed!

Today was the first day that Luca got out of bed in the morning without calling me in to his room to get him.

potty training

"This pee is like white water!"

When Luca says "Mommy, I feel cold" he has to pee (and probably poop too). He tells me when he has to use the potty now - and even when he is wearing a diaper he prefers to use the potty for his pee. The poop we havent made much progress. He likes to use the diaper for that - i know, not my preference! - and I think he is even holding the poops in all day and waiting for that naptime or bedtime diaper. For the past year he has always made the poops right after breakfast, and again after lunch or dinner. Now its usually after nap, immediately when he wakes before getting out of bed or right before bed.

probably....

I'll probably want to race my cars later.

today luca used the word "probably" in the correct context twice :)

compliments

this morning when i was making luca's breakfast, he was sitting at the little table waiting patiently. he looked up at me and said,

"mom, you're really pretty"

THAT WAS THE BEST.

Double Negatives

Today Luca thought it would be amusing to discreetly use double negatives whenever possible to get me flustered.
Examples:
"There aren'nt no boats outside"
"I don't want no salmon"

He knows he is saying something incorrect and secretly finds it funny, but keeps a straight face and waits to see if I notice.

Backyardigans

Favorite TV show: Backyardigans!!!

One episode is based on the science fiction "Journey to the Center of the Earth"
Luca loves to take my hippie Indian necklace that looks like a time machine capsule and fly it through the sky while singing "going to the center of the earth..."

He also noticed that Pablo doesn't have ears, none of the Backyardigans have teeth or hair.

Why is your face moving?

While Gioel is chewing a bite of food, Luca leans in to give a him a kiss on the cheek -

"Dad, Why is your face moving?"

Crayons

Playing with new box of 24 crayons today. Has lots of new secondary and tertiary colors he hasnt colored with before:

persimmon:
"This crayon is orange AND red!"

smoky blue-grey:
"This crayon is blue AND black!"

lime:
"This crayon is yellow AND green!"

So clever to identify the different components to each mixed color!

Identifying cars

Luca can now identify multiple make/models of cars.

Top favorites:

BMW
Porsche
Audi
Volvo (this is a new one)
"BMW" Bug
Mini Cooper
Range Rover

Mom, you're killing me!

Not sure exactly where this one came from, but we have been hearing it a lot lately