Just wanted to jot down some of the things Art's been saying lately, and also record some of the mispronounciations that I will be sad to see go.

– See you later alligator
– I want some milk
– Mama sing a song
– Mama play the piano
– Papa on a car ride
– Papa, come home!
– Arthur woke up!
– Vap ewe um (vacuum)
– Oat uh meal (oatmeal, of course)
– Want to cook!
– Move the stool.
– Josh, put the broken ball away
– I like it
– Tastes good
– Licious (delicious)
– Snug as a bug in a rug
– Want to clean it up

Well, you can see that his sentences are getting longer and often have all their parts.  He's even getting the 'I' and 'you' straight now and then.  It's pretty exciting to see all the language get organized in his head.  But I will miss vapuum and oatameal when he gets those right.

Well, Art is two today (!) and I am happy to say that he is a happy, healthy BOY. He is all boy. He loves trucks and fire engines and trains. This was a TRAIN DAY – Ben got a great train set for Art with construction vehicles and an airstrip and all sorts of fun parts and Art and I went to the Model Train Museum, a huge room with the biggest model train…. ‘set’ is not the word… WORLD is more like it. It had replicas of old Minneapolis, a few towns from the fifties, back when the streetcars were still running in the TWin Cities, had a Mississippi River with a ferry boat that had the coolest looking fake wake behind it, and five or six trains running around this huge, expansive layout. I was totally distracted by how cool the whole thing was and didn’t really get agood picture of Art, but it doesn’t matter. He was totally focused on the trains, too, and probably would not have looked at the camera anyway. Check it out!!!

We started our day making blueberry muffins together and then blew out candles for his birthday, which he wanted to do over and over. I think he blew out his candles about seven times. Lots of fun! More to come in the next two years!!!

We sat down to dinner and that's what Arthur said. A complete
sentence. It awesome.

That's what Art said at dinner tonight!  That's the first time I've heard him say he liked something all on his own!  Unfortunately, despite my best attempts to explain he still thinks that "Nanna on the airplane."

So, Nanna visted last weekend and when she left we told Art she was going home on the airplane. Well, according to Art she is still on the airplane. “Nanna – airplane”, he says. I guess home on the airplane kinda’ sounded like home in the airplane.