It's me! Jay Jay!

So the cutest thing has been happening the past couple of days. Kierstin just finished a Girl Scout Day camp where the theme was the Lion King. They made the kids little costumes to demonstrate their little groups. Kierstin was an elephant and I was helping with an older group and got to be a monkey. The costumes consisted of a headband with ears attached and a tail. I didn't have the tail but got my own ears. I brought them home and promptly gave them to the kids. Jaydin (2) had a blast playing with them. He put them on and made monkey noises. He started chasing Landin (12) and having great fun. Landin was nice and played along. He pretended to be terrified of the mean monkey who wanted to eat him. He ran and pretended to hide by covering his face with a pillow. Jaydin thought this was hilarious but when Landin wouldn't come out he felt the need to reassure him. He was still laughing but still kept trying to get Landin to come out of hiding. He pulled on the pillow and said "I not a monkey. It's me, Jay Jay." He kept saying it over and over again. It was so cute! I've never heard him call himself by name. I was very amused that when he did he chose the nickname Kierstin gave him. It's amusing because Billy doesn't like that nickname. His initials aren't JJ, they are JW so we shouldn't call him Jay Jay. Joke's on you now....he's calling himself Jay Jay. I love it! Jay Jay is way cuter than JW anyway. :)

Apple Soup?

Jaydin is 2 1/2 now. Along with his development he has finally decided that he wants to talk. However, since he was stubborn and refused to speak for so long, many of his words are still hard to understand or he uses the wrong words to say what he wants. For example, we had tomato soup the other day for dinner. He loved it. He asked me for more by saying "Apple Soup?" and lifting his bowl. I tried to correct him so that he would attempt to say the correct word. Nope, even today....2 weeks later....he still asks for apple soup. However, today he asked for apple soup and pointed at the alphabet pasta. That may be his new term for soup in general.