19 Months Here We Go

New words

Clean (wipe the table with paper towel)
Bright (as soon as we got outside on a sunny day)
Mato = tomatoes
Pato = potatoes
Copper = helicopter
Boobewi = blueberry
Punaway (put away)
Wanni (want it)

Take it
Put it
Eat it/eating
On
Off
Open
Close
Slide
Swing
Pocaca (police car)
Bikoko (bicycle)
Teewee (TV)
Cut
Dir (stir)

yankjuuu (thank you)

pweeeees (please)

A.
Kai was losing patience while I prepared dinner the other night. He was whining and pulling the corner of my shirt down.

Kate: "Okay. Mommy has to put cheese on these 4 turnovers. Then I'm done. Count with Mommy, okay? One."
Kai (cheerfully): "Done!"
Kate: "No, not yet. Two."
Kai (with great excitement): "Done!"
Kate: "I'm sorry, baby. Not yet. Three."
Kai (impatiently): "Donnnnnnnne!"
Kate: "One more and we're..."
Kai (shouting): "DONE!!!!"

B.
While Mommy was watching Top Chef Canada (I'm addicted to the Food Network, by the way), Kai went away for a short while and came back with a spatulas and a pot. He set them on the floor in front of the TV, said "Cooking! Cooking" while stirring in the pot.

C.
Kate: "Okay. Tell me about your day. You and daddy got up. What did you have for breakfast?"
Kai: "Rice!"
Kate: "You had rice?! What did daddy have?"
Kai: "Goggle."
Kate:"Whaaaaat?"
Kai started to giggle as if he purposely gave a ridiculous answer.
Kate: "Then where did you go? Did you go to Oakridge?"
Kai (nodding): "Oakridge."
Kate: "And what did you do there?"
Kai: "Drive!"
Kate: "You drove?! Did you buy anything?"
Kai looked at me like, "Huh?"
Kate: "I see a red car. Did you buy a new car?"
Kai: "Car!"
Kate: "It's a very nice car. Can mommy play with your new car?"
Kai: (dead serious) "NO!"

D.
I was busy chopping stuff up while keeping an eye on what was cooking on the stove when Kai kept saying, "Gaba! Gaba! Gaba!" Without looking at him, I asked, "What's gaba?" only to hear the word repeated back to me all dragged out in the way as if I should know that word 'cause... who doesn't?! "Gaba! Gaba! Gaba!" he continued.
When I finally finished chopping, I saw Kai standing by the garbage bin holding one of the cloth holders from his toy shelf with both hands.
He wanted me to open the garbage bin for him....
Kate: "Are you gonna throw your toys away?"
Kai: "Gabaaaaaaaa!!!!!"
Kate: "I can open the garbage bin for you, but are you going to throw your toys away?"
Kai (nodding): "Open!"
I squatted down and had him look at my face.
Kate: "Do you want to throw your toys away?"
Kai (nodding): "Throw!"
Kate: "Tell you what?! Mommy will show you what I mean, okay?" I took a block from his box of toys, threw it into the garbage bin, and closed it.
Kate: "We threw it away. Now it's gone."
Kai pointed at the garbage bin: "Get it."
Kate: "No, we can't. You wanted to throw it away, so Mommy put it in the garbage. Now it's gone."
Kai stood there holding his box of toys.
Kate: "So? Do you want to throw your toys away?"
Kai: "No!" and took the box of toys into his room.