Broke & Yuck

Two of Benjamin’s favorite words right now are broke and yuck. He intentionally chooses to break things just so he can say the word broke.

I bet you can imagine just how fun that it is for us. I recently posted on IG that I bought Benjamin some of those Halloween window clings from the Target dollar spot. I broke them out after naptime that day and He was smitten. The skeleton heads and spiders all took a ride in his hand-me-down blue truck from his Dad’s childhood toys. He loves that truck. He also loves the word truck and says it loudly and excitedly when playing with one of his trucks.

Once they were done taking a ride in the truck, I found the window clings on many different windows over the course of a few days. He moved them, toted them, and took them for rides.

The mail arrived one day last week and his CA grandparents sent him a Halloween package with his first magazine subscription (so advanced!) to Highlights and a few fun Halloween items. One being more window clings. This time, pumpkins. I opened the package and gave them to him right away.

Within a minute, he pulled the face apart on one of them, brought it to me and told me it was broke. I don’t think he meant to, but now he learned that he could and was determined to make sure the others were put to the same quality tests. One-by-one, each pumpkin gel cling earned its death sentence. I stuck them up high on the glass sliding doors on ones that weren't too far gone. Each day he points and tells me they are broke, like he has no idea how that happened. Just like the books he manages to ruin on a regular basis. He calls those broke, too.

Another favorite word? Yuck. Usually pronounced uck.

I’ll randomly catch him pulling out the garbage drawer in our kitchen, proclaiming something is yuck and then dropping it into the trash. We’ve had a variety of things found in the trashcan recently: Sharpie markers, food he didn’t want, plastic teacups from his play kitchen and random containers for Playdough and other toys.

This kid.

p.s. Who knew so many of you would purchase a second crib (and who knew so few of you cared about the tree in the middle of our deck. Hah! I get it, I'm no DIY blogger...taking the hint)! I'd say 75% commented on my last post that you'd buy an additional crib. You people love your sleep. I recently lost understanding of what sleep is like because pregnancy insomnia has struck once again...dum...dum...dum. Will keep you posted on our progress/decisions!