Talking, sharing, and a big boom

One day in the bath, Eddie pointed up at a washcloth that was hanging over the bar and said "Pants."
I corrected him: "Washcloth."
Eddie, exasperated, shouted: "That thing!"


Eddie has started climbing on things more. Last week, he tried to climb on a metal shelf that we have near the kitchen, and it fell over. He had a HUGE bump over his eye, and we took him to the doctor. He was fine. He's still climbing on things.


At the playground the other day, Eddie was looking enviously at a soccer ball that belonged to a little girl. Her dad asked "Do you want to kick it?" But instead of kicking it, Eddie grabbed it and ran off (give him an inch, he'll take a mile...)

I asked him to give it back to the little girl. He headed off that way. It looked promising, but he overshot: he kept going past her, then threw the ball toward the wall.

I asked him a second time to give it back, and he picked it up again, then put it on top of the wall, outside the playground.

I asked him a third time to give it back, and he picked it up off the wall, then took it straight to the little girl and handed it to her!

What a good boy!


Eddie says "jar" now, but he pronounces it "dao." He says it consistently, and he's definitely saying "jar", it just comes out as "dao" every time.