Hat

Donovan is really obsessed with putting things on his (or your) head nowadays and calling it a "hat". Many things can be a hat really. A blanket, a car, a vegetable strainer, a lampshade at the store, and as pictured above, a small canvas bag. I am just blown away that he gets the concept so well. He also really loves to go get Tom's baseball hat and take it off Tom's head, and bring it to me and put it on my head. I guess he thinks daddy wears hats too much and I don't wear them enough.

This week he is saying lots of new words, and saying old words a lot. For instance "Hi". He says it minimum 150 times a day. It would probably be annoying if he didn't say it so dang cute. He begins saying it seconds after he wakes up. The other day when he was sick, Tom got him up to change his diaper and give him his morning bottle and he laid him on the changing table and poor Donovan croaked out a meager "Hi" with his eyes half closed, nose practically crusted over, and bunny and blanket in his arms. He says it as a greeting and as a way to get your attention. Tom was holding him and talking to me as I was making dinner last week and Donovan started saying "Hi". Tom wasn't paying attention to Donovan as we were talking so Donovan kept saying "hi" and then pausing until he finally grabbed Tom's shirt, got in his face and yelled "hi" and got his daddy to say it back. He will also say it as we pass strangers in the store which usually catches people off guard and makes them laugh that such a little guy gives such a clear and enthusiastic "Hi!". If you have never heard him say it, you really should. He makes it a three syllable, three different note word.

The new words he is saying are:

All done- (said in his own way of course)
"guck"- truck. Says it for all things with wheels. Tricycles, scooters, cars, trains, airplanes. He learned it a few days ago and said it about 60 or 70 times today.
"Paw Paw"- grandpa
yeah- very clear
Auntie- (in a Dono way)
"Mo"- more
"off"- means light apparently now because we say it so much when we let him turn the light switches on and off
"uP"- up. Used interchangeably with "off"

And he said sock today but I can't (well... shouldn't) type what that sounded like ;)

As far as the colds have gone we are all finally feeling human again. I ended up taking a sick day off work on Friday so I had 5 days off work in a row but I commented to Tom today that 5 days off when you are sick means a whole different thing than 5 days off when you are well. Not half as fun. Well I better get to sleep to try and get this cold all the way gone before it starts coming back agin.