Who's the boss

It is so fun (and funny) living with a toddler who is learning to speak. I'm sure most moms would agree that it is so cute when your little one starts to babble, and then say little words, and then speak in short, often disjunct sentences. It is literally like a little cave man; and while I can pretty much always understand what Jack is saying, it often requires some translation on my part so everyone else understands too. He is in the nouns, verbs, and adjectives phase, but every day I'm noticing his sentences becoming more and more complete and complex. 


Jack started talking really early for a boy. By the time he was one, he could point to many objects and give them their correct names, but his favorite thing to say was, "Wasat?" {what's that?}. He literally asked "wasat?" about everything. I could just see his little mind encoding and processing all of the information he was taking in about the world around him.  At Thanksgiving last year, we were at my Nana's house and Jack was going around pointing to various breakables saying, "don't touch, don't touch" Smart boy.  


Smart boy is also a very funny boy...sometimes by accident. 


The other night Sean was sitting on the floor playing the guitar, or "tarrrr" as Jack calls it, and he all of a sudden shouted,


 "Daddy, SOPPP" 


and he kind of swatted at Sean's hand that was strumming. Sean told him no no, and I commented to him in passing that Jack is definitely in the stage of pushing boundaries and trying to figure out who the boss is. 

My lil boss (wearing Papa's hat)

What happened next was one of the funniest things ever...this typed version will never do it justice since it is lacking in timing and intonation.


Sean jokingly looked at Jack and said, 


"Who's the boss? Daddy's the boss."


and without a single second of hesitation, Jack retorted, 


"No, Mommy's boss."


Like I said, he's a smart boy. Sean and I both cracked up, and luckily he is not one of those men who let their egos overtake any kind of rational thinking, so he was not offended at all. {Although he did tell Jack several times over the next half hour or so, that Daddy's the boss...} haha. 


Some of the humor in little one's early speech is not what they say, but how they say it. For example:


Giden Fider: giant spider
Zizard: lizard
J-bug: Jacob 
Gobbles: goggles
Fighter truck and fighter men: fire truck, fire men


I'm just happy he knows who's boss :-)