Dear Greyson,
Just a few quick things about you that I never ever want to forget!
I love all the silly words that you say. For instance, all birds are called "ducks" and you say "fuffle-bo" for a buffalo. Woody from Toy Story is "Wo-ee" and Jessie (from Toy Story and Grandma and Boppa's dog) is "Sassie". Elmo is "Mamo". Gabbas still all have their own names, "Mumu, Booboo, Pac, Teetee, and Fao". You call Grandma "Ma". We try all the time to get you to say bird, and you say, "yeah, duck!". "Hu-ach" is both hug and walk. We sometimes have a hard time with this one because it's the same word.
Dada bought you a hockey puck at the Wings game last night and gave it to you. You needed to sleep with it tonight. We put you to bed and after a little bit you started crying. Dada went in to check on you and you were crying, "hockey". Dada thought you heard the TV, it wasn't until Mama reminded him of the hockey puck, and lo and behold you dropped the hockey puck. Dada handed it to you and all was better!
Dada and I bought you a new sippy cup today. It has Toy Story characters on it. You were so excited that you felt it necessary to take it into the bath tub. We just went with it! LOL!
Bedtime is for the most part pretty easy. You don't really like giving us hugs and kisses anymore before bed. When it's bedtime you really just want to lay down in your bed. You always lay in the exact same spot, facing the wall on you side and you insist on things being the exact same. You get your bink while we are giving you kisses and hugs and then lay you down. Then we hand you your milk and cover you with purple blankie and then your gabba blankie. Mumu has to be laying next to you on the green pillow and you lay on your white Brobee pillow. Dada and I have found out the hard way that we have to cover you with those blankets in that order. You tell us if we did it wrong!
You have a few new obsessions. Sadly, you have moved on from Gabbas. This makes me a little sad to be completely honest. You still play with your gabba toys in the tub and sleep with them though! Elmo has entered your world. It's pretty cute! The other new obsession is Thomas the Train. You see a train and you say, "Choo-choo!" We have a Thomas movie that you watch, and one part is where there is a train chase and the bad train falls off the track into the water. The whole time it's happening you go, "Oh no! Choo-choo! Fall down!" It's pretty amusing that you actually understand. You still love your cars. We have introduced you to Matchbox Cars. You love love love them! You will bring them over to us and hand one to each of us and then the three of us have to drive them around. You insist! "Mama Car"
You still love being read to. You like not only being read to, but you love to look at books by yourself. For Easter both sets of grandparents got you lots and lots of books. When Ma and Papa are home you make both of them read to you before bed. Ma and Papa just eat it up! You also love looking at a book that Ma and Boppa got you for Easter, it's a recorded book with their voices about how much they miss you. Each time you turn the page and hear their voices you act all surprised and say, "Boppa!" or "Ma!" It's pretty cute!
You majorly surprised us the other day when we were at the park with Kaleb, Big B, Jason, Libby and Dada. An airplane flew overhead and you pointed to the sky and said, "Air pane!" We didn't even know you knew what that was! Smarty pants!
A game you and Mama play in the car is pointing out EVERYTHING! "Mama, wass dat?" You want to know what everything is. You also want to know where everyone is. "Mama, where Dada go?" Mama, where Sassie go?" "Mama, where Nannan (Camden, a friend from daycare) go?" etc, etc. After I answer over and over you will start telling me where everyone is. "Mama, Sassie nigh nigh". It's super cute. Then we point out all the cars we see!
I love you buddy, forever and longer!
Love, Mama
