There's No Such Thing As Squirrels

Now that the weather is nice, we've been able to get out of the house on some walks around the hood. A few weeks ago the boys returned from a long walk to report that there is no such thing as squirrels.

Seemingly, in the eyes of our toddler, squirrels are really cats, and there are hundreds of them in our neck of the woods. Will pointed out all of the cats for dad, thank you very much.

At 19 months old, the world is fascinating. His vocabulary grows every day and his pronunciation improves each week. Some of our favorite words are:
- "choo-choo", heaven help us, we hear this hundreds of times a day
- "yellow", which has about a dozen "l"s in it
- "cracker", currently pronounced "kack-kah"
- "stop", used in the car and stroller at every stop sign, and in the house just for fun
- "yes", new this week, paired frequently with "no", pronounced a little like "jess"


And of course there are words we now spell rather than say including:
- "bath" - be prepared to provide one if you mention it
- "fish" - must be followed by a trip to the basement to visit the fish tank for 3 milliseconds and 30 minutes of tearing up the basement
- "outside" - pleads for "out, out, out" will follow, be prepared for moderate to energetic emotional protests when returning back indoors