Garbage Truck Song

Here are a couple clips of Luke singing his "Garbage Truck Song" that he made up all by himself.  :P

Talking about Dinner

Capturing a few more cute phrases that he had been saying at the time - unique to this phase of his life.

Applesauce.

Fum-mums.  (Muffins)

Dinosaur chicken nugs!  (nuggets)

Someday I might go in small water.  (hot tub outside by the HOA pool)  (He had been saying lots of these "someday..." sentences, and they were all so cute - to hear what he considered super cool, but that he was too little for.  :)

Talking about Book

Some cute discussion about his book later that day (which, by the way, was my parents' anniversary!).

"Reading" his Zebra Book

Funny how he seemed so much more understandable when I took this video than he does now, 9 months later.  :)  Here is his version (as best as I can tell) of some lines from the book, Toby Zebra and the Lost Zoo, that he's "reading" from memory.  Brackets provide clarification to help you understand what he's trying to say.  Definitely should have posted this one closer to when I took the video so I could remember how to interpret Luke's speech better!  :)

A gate [was] open.  "Hmmm," [said] Toby.  This [has never] happened before.

He looked at lots of cages.  And no tigers in the tiger cage.  No monkeys in tiger cage.  No tigers in tiger cage.  The elephant gone this cage!

Only a black cat come to see Toby.  (I'm a little lost as to the rest of his words besides "the cat, meow" for the rest of this page spread - pretty different than the book's words).  :)

He passed a church.  He crossed a bridge.  He crossed the coal thing.  [ :P ]  The looked like mountains.

All black!

The go-gos [cars] stopped.  A truck stopped [not in the book!].  "Phweet!  Phweet!" [the policeman's whistle]  Toby... [not sure what he's intending after this]

It's raining.  Goats [not the animal in the book].  No tigers.  "This [was a] funny joke [on] us."  "You're a zebra!  You not [don't belong on] a farm.  You..."  Chicken.  Mommy, daddy chicken.  [just pointing out something in the picture]

"Toby, Toby!  I missed you!"  There's the zebras.  [again just pointing stuff out]  Monkeys, monkeys, inside the cage.  Tigers and lions not inside the cage.

Tigers inside the cage.  Giraffes inside the cage.

Where'd the truck one go?

You in the truck, man's truck.  "Are you getting me a pony?"  "No, Billy."  "This pony on the busy street."  The truck.

All the animals run away to the barn.

Hide & Seek

A couple cute clips of Luke learning how to play hide and seek (very one sided in this video), along with other cute comments from him - so cute to capture his toddler-ese on video!

Seven Video

Just from the sound, I'm sure some of you will recognize this Sesame Street video.  Luke really enjoys these particular ones.  As you can see here, he likes to drum along with them!  I had originally taken a video of the whole song, but after they start counting the things, Luke's expressions don't change much - he'll just sometimes count along - so I just stopped it after the first set of counting things.  Enjoy!

Drumming with Vijay

There was this box that arrived one of the days we were visiting Joanna.  Vijay and Luke thought it was great fun to drum on!  Vineetha was still a little young to participate fully, but she's trying to get in on the action, too.  :)