Langston's Words

I'm tired... but its been a while and I wanted to capture some of the words Langston has started to say. Here are the ones I can remember right now:

• Kitty Cat - sort of sounds like "Kay Kay"
• Bubba
• Hi
• Bye - this is his best word and it's usually accompanied with a wave
• Mama
• Dada
• Kahlil - sounds like "keal"
• Hot - sounds like "ot"

I don't know if we are going to get any more signs from him. He seems pretty happy with 'more' and 'all done'. Actually Kahlil has been into signs lately. He keeps asking us what different signs are... unfortunatley we don't know the sign for butter, or napkin, or half of the other things he asks. We did make up a cheese sign (waving your fists in front of your face like Wallace when he talks about cheese in one of the Wallace and Gromit movies) and everybody thought that was fun. But I think Langston is more into talking than Kahlil was at this age. We'll see - Kahlil certainly got over his taciturn ways much to our chagrin.

Langston has also started to take simple directions (when he wants) like "put that down" or "throw that away". Actually he LOVES to throw stuff away and I have to keep an eye on him as non-trash items end up in the can from time to time. He also likes to put his milk cup in the fridge... the way he gets down from the dinner table and takes the cup to the fridge right away you know it's an important job!

Take Your Kid to Work Night

I remember when my mom used to take me into work when I was little. I must have been adorable as I learned to ten key when I was ten. Then she was still taking me when I was a teenager. Word of advice: don't take your geeky teen son to your job as a computer mainframe operator in a hospital. I know your social security number and your medical history.

Anyway, I brought Kahlil with me on an HP errand. He immediately found an error in one of the equations on my co-worker Carey Yliniemi's white board.

He corrected it. I didn't realize he had picked up Darcy's Equation for flow through porous media from 'Blues Clues'.

I will start him on golf lessons next week before this gets out of hand.

Kahlil lightened up after a bit to try on this hat (also belonging to Carey). This is the look on his face the moment after he asked, "Do I look like a moose?"

I think he looks like an Irish version of Elmer Fudd in the 'What's Opera, Doc?" cartoon.

"Yes, Magic Helmet!

Yes, Magic Helmet!

And I give you a SAMple...!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQfNnSk1mAo

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Tonka Sledding

Who needs snow? Gravity + Tonka toys = Fun! Here, Langston demonstrates. Kahlil also put in several good runs ... backwards. I am sure there is a good reason we evolved with genes that make us find this kind of behavior enjoyable.

Teen Angst in a Three Year Old

Kahlil lost both of his bedtime stories last night. The first was taken when he refused to let go of the hose Langston was playing with. He got mad when told to go to his room and told us he was 'so mad he was boiling' and he was never going to talk to me again. The second book was lost, just a shot time later, when he again refused to do what was asked. We told him he had a choice... be good and come sit for dinner OR refuse and be sent to his room. He told us he would be 'good in a minute'. After the second trip to his room, apparently he worked out all is angst because we had a wonderful dinner. In fact he was Eddie Haskell polite. I hope sending him to his room is this effective when he's 13.

Langston has added 'SpaghettiO' to the end of some of his 'uh-ohs'.