Sunday, April 27, 2008

Yesterday I introduced Asher to Dandelions. I did the whole mama-had-a baby-and-her-head-popped-off thing, which thrilled him. He has previously been totally uninterested in anything flowering. Anyway, I asked him if he wanted to go show dada (who was about 50 meters away) the dandelion. He did, and took off running towards the spot where dada was using a magnifying glass to burn designs into a little wooden box he had made. He showed Carson the flower and Carson asked him what it was. Asher seemed to think about it for about two seconds before replying "tiger-dandy."
Later on, we were inside and I was trying to sneak a chocolate chip with out having to give one to Asher. (I know, I am so selfish) But he caught me as he almost always does, and insisted that I share. When he came back for seconds I said he could have one more. Before I could give him his meager ration he looked up at me with big eyes and said "two?" Is he really old enough to be making negotiations like that?
A couple of weeks ago Stacey was trying to teach Asher to call Jeff 'Uncle Jeff' as a joke. Well, Asher started calling him 'Cool Jeff' and has honestly taken 100% more interest in him (I mean he talks about him pretty much all day) since he learned the name. Well, Annika decided to try a little harder to get him to say uncle instead of cool. The result-- "Uncool Jeff".
Asher has started adding other titles to certain persons' names, but only the people who are most special to him. His highest title is, understandably, 'mama'. I think Stacey was the first to achieve the mama status,(after me of course). Next came Cindy (aka Mama Sam), then Vanessa, then Aleta, Rachael and Julia. Last week he showed that not only real mamas could achieve the mama status when he granted it to both Kaleb and Annika.

4 comments:

Vanessa said...

How is Asher's Big Frogger pronunciation coming along? I love this post and can't get enough of Asher stories.

Althea said...

I love the tiger-dandy story, that is so cute. What a miracle their little brains are!

Sam said...

I was so sad I didn´t get to see you guys before I left! I hope life is going well. I love and miss you so much!

Sam said...

Update your blog already!
love yu!