Jack Gets Life

So we're at the park today and Jack somehow managed to snag my phone. He's always liked to fiddle around with it, trying to push the buttons and whatnot (he called 911 once and how he did it I'll never know; you have to hit a digital button that says "dial" and then the numbers are all digital as well, but I digress...), but today he did something different. He held it up to his ear and said, "Eeh."

He says "eeh" about everything pretty much. If I had to label his words, I'd say he could discriminately say "mama," "daddy," and "nurse" (which sounds like "na-na" while he frantically does the sign for nurse). "Eeh" is just his general noise. But I was just flabbergasted to see him put the phone to his ear. Like a real person! And he figured it out all on his own, just by watching us! Smart boy.

I can remember feeling this way about Spencer as well, how amazing it was to watch them go from baby to toddler right before my very eyes. For my boys, the pattern has seemed to be walking, then talking, and by the time they are doing both of those things they are like their own little person.

I mean, technically they've always been people, but to me toddlers just have so much more personality. They get mad about things other than food and diaper changes and happy about figuring out how the world works. If I had to pick, the toddler phase is by far my very most favorite. Like little sponges, they are. It is super fun.