Gareth will be 2 on Saturday! I can’t believe it. He’s joyful, strong-willed, charming, and full of personality. I thought over the next couple of days it might be fun to do a series of posts about our sweet little buddy.
Gareth’s words
- Mommy
- Daddy
- Sissy
- ball!
- oo-oo (trains)
- ee-ee (trucks — because of the noise big trucks make when they’re backing up)
- lellow (yellow. Only this doesn’t refer to the color, but to sugary sweets like fruit snacks and popsicles. I don’t know why.)
- ‘ock now! (rock me now.)
- in tee-tees! (a joyous exclamation of his own nakedness.)
- boat! (can refer to either boats or boots. Again, don’t ask me why.)
- pho’ (not the vietnamese food, but phones. Anything with a button on it is a pretend phone, and he will happily chat away. He’s usually talking to his Pop about Pop’s boat.)
- iney (his blankie.)
- juice
- shoes
- caw wide! (car ride. Whenever I have to make a quick run to the store for something, he goes with me. We love these little dates together.)
- ‘ide? (can we play outside?)
- doo, nah, doh! (two, one, go! — a count down, usually to some kind of crash)
- ‘ay… (Okay. Usually said with a tone of sad resignation, because Mommy has outlasted him and he didn’t get whatever he wanted.)
- Eww! (self-explanatory. Usually referring to a poopy diaper.)
- ho’ (not a garden tool or a lady of ill-repute, but “home.” If Gareth feels like his Mommy and Daddy are being unreasonable about something, he’ll often demand that we go home.)
- go! (He usually says this when I’m trying to put him to bed and he wants Daddy instead.)
- out! (He’s been known to try and put Mommy in time-out before. In the church nursery I dared to hold another baby, and he felt I needed to be punished for that.)
And that’s just about every word in his vocabulary right now, although he loves to imitate new words. Yesterday I caught him trying to say “regular,” and it came out sounding kind of like “eh-loo-law.”
Life with Mommy 
Love it!