He's saying jam

We're leaving for Sacramento this afternoon to go to my sister's wedding and so I thought I'd write a post in the same vein as the "I suck" one (funny stuff Charlie says), and throw in a funny picture of Charlie while I was at it. The first funny thing he says is actually a "combo". When Charlie was younger and first starting to talk, Jenni and I would always say stuff like "oh! yogurt" when we finally figured out that "gigurt" meant yogurt. Apparently, Charlie noticed that and started to believe that that was magic code to get us to understand him, so he would just say "oh! 'blah'" with the same inflection that we would use when we couldn't figure out what "blah" meant. The funniest one was that he would very frequently just use the word "this" and would end up saying "oh! this". It was pretty cute and always funny to see the little guys brain trying to figure out his parents.
The second part of that is that then Charlie would notice that Jenni and I would say, "he's saying 'blah'" when one of us figured out what he was saying, so then one day he wanted jam on his toast and Jenni and I were busy running around, so he said "he's saying jam" and assumed that we'd finally understand him and bring him his jam. We obviously both got a good chuckle out of it and he has since realized that it's funny and will just randomly say, "he's saying jam" to try and get a laugh. But the funniest part about the whole "he's saying" thing is that we almost always know what he's saying and once again he just thinks its some sort of magic word that will get Mom and Dad to do something.

The next thing funny thing is part of his night time routine. Around the time that Charlie switched over to sleeping in a normal bed, Jenni started wrapping him up and saying "like a mummy". He quickly started requesting "blanket like a mummy" every night. Then a few weeks ago he said "like a daddy" when I was wrapping him up. Apparently, he's not familiar with Egyptian history and has been thinking that we say "like a mommy", but now anytime Jenni's near by and I'm putting him to bed, he'll say "like a daddy" and smile. He knows it's always good for a laugh out of Jenni and takes full advantage of that fact.
On the not so funny side, this morning I was having Charlie help me mow the lawn and the bag fell off the mower as I was walking to the trash. I said "oh crap" and then what did I hear from a few feet away? That's right, our little parrot decided that was his new phrase. He spent the next 15 minutes walking around saying "oh crap". I guess I should just be glad that all I said was "oh crap".
And on an unrelated topic, Charlie is currently in his room to take a nap before we leave for the airport. Since he sleeps in a bed and has figured out the light switches, he usually turns on the light and plays for 15-20 minutes before falling asleep. Jenni had told me this happens, but I had never seen it and then just now he walked over, turned the light off and toddled over to his bed. Such a funny little kid.

"I suck"

So this post actually isn't about what the title may have led you to believe, but is about the funny things that Charlie has been saying lately. The first one is "I suck". It usually gets an interesting response out of people when he says it, but he's actually trying to say "I'm stuck" or "it's stuck" and just forgot a letter or two. I think it makes it even funnier because he says it with this distressed/slightly sad voice, and it's always good for a chuckle.
The next one is "eye doctor". When you hear him say this, you might think that he's taken up an interest in biology, but he actually is trying to say "helicopter" and it doesn't quite make it out right. He's been interested in cars, trucks, and airplanes for a while, but a few weeks ago he was playing in the backyard and a helicopter flew by. He was very fascinated with it the whole time it was flying by (it was circling the area or something), and now he says things like "eye doctor go?", "fly away", "up there", "in sky", "eye doctor nigh nigh" whenever he's outside.
We've been weening him of his binky during this week and so he's been a LOT more hesitant to go to bed these last few days. His new delay strategy is to say "two minutes" and hold his little fingers up. He's started doing it with anything that he wants to keep doing and delay, and it's always funny to see his little smile when he does it.
He's taken up an interest in climbing up ladders at the park. The one park has a small toddler sized slide/play area, but the one right by us only has this big arching type ladder thing and so he wants to climb up that every time. I make sure to hold him the whole time going up (because it totally freaks me out) and I tell him "be careful" the whole way up. But the funny part is the last time we were there, there were a couple other kids playing there as well and so he would stop half way up to see what they were doing. I would get his attention by saying "focus", and so the next time he went up to the ladder and he said "pocus, be fareful" while pointing at it and then repeated it the whole way up. I'm not sure if he has any idea what either of those things actually mean, but it was still funny to hear him realize that something was going on with the ladder.
I know that this is a bit of a long, boring (pictureless) post and I'm sure there are a million other cute things that he says, but Jenni and I have been talking about how we need to record the little things like this because it's the stuff that we'll forget, if we don't write it down, and sometimes when we wait for a cute video or picture, we end up not writing it down at all (like when Charlie used to grab food off the top of the garbage can and then run and hide in a corner to eat it). But anyway, we sure do love our little Charlie and look forward to hearing all of the other funny things that he comes up with.

Like looking in a mirror

I saw this commercial and couldn't help but laugh, because this is the same type of stupid "arguments" that me and Jenni have.

A good laugh every now and then

Today I stumbled on a webcomic that I am now an officially devoted fan of. It's called xkcd and while it will never win any contests, it's usually worth a good chuckle or two. Be warned that it's geared more towards the "geeky whit" type of humor, and some of the comics are odd or maybe even a bit "inappropriate", but here's one that I thought all of the bloggers out there would really appreciate (click on it to see the whole thing).

35 face balls in 32 seconds

Videos like this are why God created the internet (I kid, I kid). But seriously, this video is a classic, and if you have a digg account, then go digg it so that the whole world can enjoy the joy of watching people get hit in the face with a ball.
(And for those that don't know what digg is. digg is a social bookmarking site that let's you "digg" website, videos, etc, and let's you see what the "word on the internet" is.)