Ten car!

These days its hard to take pictures of Theo because he gets too distracted by the camera. Nonetheless, I do manage to capture a moment now and then, and it's easiest to do when he's distracted by his favorite things: vehicles. He often gathers as many of his vehicle toys as he can and lines them up in a big group and plays all sorts of games with them, concentrating with great intensity and stopping for no food or other enticement. The picture to the above is actually a picture of Theo dancing and playing cars at the same time; Theo has become an incredible dancer.

Theo's language is rapidly developing, with multi-word phrases almost the norm. These days we hear phrases like "more cheese stick" and "no, stay, car" (meaning no thanks, mom, I'd rather stay here and play with my cars than have a diaper change right now).

As his concepts develop, he begins to use words to mean more than what we might expect. For instance, he developed the phrase "ten car", to describe things he thought were great: car is his favorite thing, and ten is the highest number he knows, so "ten car" became "this is something fantastic". The other day, I came home with a pizza box. Normally, when Theo sees a pizza box, he excitedly exclaims, "piz!" and follows me into the kitchen. This time, he pointed to the pizza box and said "ten car!". Meaning, of course, yeah, mom, my favorite food! Another recently highlight is "'sup dude". Theo heard me teasing Matt about answering the phone 'sup dude, and started mimicking it. I, of course, have encouraged such a cute phrase whole-heartedly.