Dexter has been putting together more words to form some cute sentences. "I no like it", is probably my favorite because it's funny, but "I get it", is better because he's excitedly toddling off grabbing a favorite book. He's too cute.
We've had a couple of very odd things happen recently where Dex named something that no one had said or pointed out to him. The first was when we were putting up groceries and I handed the bag of frozen pizza bites to Mr.Cobra to put in the freezer. Dexter pointed at it and said "pizza!" It wouldn't be that big of a deal if it wasn't for the fact that neither of us had said anything regarding pizza and he's never had pizza bites before. The packaging just had a picture of the pizza bites on it and the words Pizza Bites. Neither of which he was familiar with. My only guess is that either he recognizes the word pizza, or I said something about it at the grocery store and he has a superb memory. That is totally freaky.
Which leads me to crazy experience number two. Also, the same day after we came home from the grocery store. Mr. Cobra sits down on the sofa and sets down a bottle of POM (pomegranate juice). Dexter points at it and says "pom!" out of the blue. Neither of us had said anything about it, but he somehow knew what it was. I don't know wen the last time there was a bottle of POM around, but I can safely say that's a once or twice a year treat. I chalked it up to our nanny drinking it, but when I asked, she said she doesn't. I did test him to see if somehow he was reading POM since it's such a small word with letters he knows. He was stumped by the heart-shaped O and called it an apple. He could recognize the bottle, but not if no one drinks it! Did he see it on a TV commercial? He yells GEICO after every one of their commercials. Sigh. The mystery remains.
The toddler bed conversion had a few bumps, but seems to be going well. He's sleepwalked a couple times and and said "mama five?" to give me a five in the middle of the night. He's also fallen out of the crib a few times, so I put pillows under the open part. It's not more than 8 inches of the ground, so it's not a big deal. It's more shocking than anything. Two nights ago he fell onto the pillows and didn't even wake up! I put him back into the bed without so much as a wiggle. I honestly thought he was knocked out until he rolled over onto his side as I stood near the crib listening to him breath.
The time change hasn't been to bad. It has been a challenge to get him to go to bed by 8:30 though. We've been reading ridiculous amounts of books to try and get him drowsy. Don't get me wrong, it's great that he likes storytime so much, it's just that it's the same ones over and over again. I just bought a bunch of new ones to mix it up some, but that lasted about 2 days. Now we are just reading double the amount in each sitting.
