Like Mother Like Son

Um, I think I dressed up like this for The Rocky Horror Picture Show once.

 

 

Crossover Post: Teaching the Baby

Well, I tried really hard to get footage of the Bug trying to teach Josie to clap -- he said "Clap!" several times, and grabbed her hands and tried to make her clap -- but I missed it. By the time I got the camera on, he was teaching her the parts of the body: "Head, eyes, BUTTON!!, knees and toes." It's still pretty good.

Bug Conversations: Funny?

Ben is busy exploring the bounds of what is funny and not funny. When he does something that really makes us laugh he says "Pretty funny?" and will repeat that over and over until we tell him that yes indeed it is funny.

He will do this even if he doesn't know why we are laughing. For example, last night, I asked him if he was ready to go to bed, and he said "No!" Which is, as his two-year-old right, one of his favorite words. So my father said: "You've got to trick him, you should ask: 'Hey Ben, do you mind going to bed?'" And Ben promptly looked at Dad and said "Yes."

Which of course made us all laugh very hard and Ben was very pleased with himself: "Very funny!"

Unfortunately he doesn't always get it right. Last night he screamed along with a song that was playing on the stereo and scared the heck out of Josie -- she began to bawl inconsolably and Ben got the biggest grin on his face. "Pretty funny!" he said. And I said, "No, not funny."

He kept grinning, though.

On the other hand, he does seem to be learning a bit: Every morning when he crawls out of his crib and into bed with me at 6 AM, he says very solemnly: "NOT funny."