Zane-isms

Zane has gotten so much more verbal, to the point that he just carries on the most hilarious conversations. That said, Allen commented that his increase in vocabulary skills hasn't necessarly made him any nicer. He's a hoot, but he can also be just... well... okay, fine. BAD. *sigh* Oh well. He's only two. (for 3 more weeks) There's hope yet. (maybe)

Anyway, I love the way he talks. I so want to, and do sometimes, talk like Zane does. I know that I need to speak correctly to him, to encourage proper dictation, but it's so darn cute I have a hard time doing that. And some things just stick. Jude called Chick-fil-A "Chick-a-Lay" for so long that we still call it that. But I just wanted to get down some of Zane's funnies for later. You know, when I'm scrapbooking again. In Heaven.

So here are the latest:

Sun scream (sun screen)
soft (salt)
Bella was "Belda" for a bit. I really loved that.
Ark classes (Laney and Jude's Art classes)
YM"Z"A
Banana SnoCones are "Yellow" SnoCones. He'll even order it that way. The girls that work there think it's cute, thankfully.
I love the way he says things like, "I don't want Mrs. Jenn to see my boo boos. I DON'T." He loved to emphatically follow up any sentence with a "I DON'T!" (and that was an actual sentence he said yesterday. Evidently he didn't want Jenn to see his chest. Why? Who could possibly know...)
He follows up any thing that pleases him ("Yes, you can have a popsicle") with a "Yeeees" and a fist pump.
He says "Care-me me" for "Carry me." And he says that one a lot. And trust me, it's fun lugging that hoss around. (that's a Pinson word)
Downstirs. You know. like the stairs are stirring up something to eat.
You can ask him if he did something wrong. He'll look at you and say, "I NOT."
"Did you hit Jude?"
"I NOT."
(and usually, ZANE DID.)
He has long made two syllables out of everything. MaMa, DaDa, LaLa, JuJu, BellBell, LuLu. He doesn't do it so much now, but now all of US use the Zane nicknames for each other.
He loves my sister's apartment. "Em-lees Partment" is his favorite place to go.

Of course, it's his deep, deep voice that makes all this the more unique. Allen says it's all the testosterone. Lovely.

It's no secret that I had to fight a little to get Zane here. Allen was worried about having another miscarriage, and rather than get into all that here, I'll just say that God kinda gave Zane to us and Allen was okay with that. You know, eventually. ;) So the joke around here that Allen will tell Zane is, "You know, I didn't really want to have you..." and we all giggle. It's really said so affectionately. It's really funny because Zane and Allen are SO much alike. Allen calls him "mini-me." God knew exactly what He was doing when He gave Zane to us.

So the other morning, Allen and Zane were giggling and rolling around in the floor and Allen told Zane that, and Zane said, "Why you not want me?" And Allen laughed and said, "I don't know now!" And Zane looked at him for a second and said, "Then God just dropped me off?"

Oh me.