What Liam's saying

"Mommy said it!"

"Hey, wait for me!"

"I wanna look at my brown eyes."

"I'm an actor baby." (After Mommy accused Liam of acting like a baby)

"Mama, hold my hand."

"Mama, hold my baby." (which means "Mama, hold me.")

"Stop, Daddy!" followed by "More?" followed by "Daddy say, 'Mmmm, no!'" (after eating the baby belly)

"Oreos" (he sometimes calls Rubio's by this name)

"Dad, see my cheese" (after which Liam opens his mouth to show you his cheese)

"Get off the phone and drive!" (not quite what Mommy said in its entirety, but somehow, I lucked out & this is the only part he says)

"Uhhhh...."

"I want that," or "I want that thing," when he can't remember the name of something.

What Liam's saying these days

Liam's language skills continue to improve, and he's communicating much more effectively these days. Some recent sayings:

"Mama carry me." (As opposed to the previous request, "Mama carry you," which always disappointed me, since I never did get carried anywhere.)

"That's a BIG burger!" (In response to the giant burgers on the new Carl's Jr. billboards along the freeways. That'd be Hardees, to our midwestern peeps!)

"Martian raiders! With a big net!" (From his current bedtime favorite, Mars Needs Moms.)

"Daddy go! Mama go!" (A boy needs his privacy to squat by the side of the bed to do his business!)

"I was bad! I need a timeout!" (Let me tell ya, they really don't work when the kid is downright gleeful about getting them...)

"Milo said it." "Trixie did it." "The WonderPets said it." (He loves giving recaps of his favorite shows and books, either as we're going along, or just at random points throughout the day. Maybe in 20 years he'll be Eberts' latest partner!)

"It's okay!" (Said in his most soothing tone, usually followed by "Mama's crying." Not that Mama actually was crying, but this is what he wants me to do so that he can console me.)

"I wanna hold the banana thing." "I wanna hold the apple thing." "I wanna hold the celery thing." (He wanted to hold every "thing" this morning while we were in Trader Joe's)

"We look stylie!" (Everyone was wearing sunglasses and Liam found it to be very stylie!)

What Liam's saying

"We're turn arounding!"

"Don't want Daddy to hold you."

"More abazon-e." (zabaglione)

"Dada has phone ears." (headphones)

"We're lightsabering!"

"Mama's baby."

"We're gonna put up the blue placard!" (Mommy's handicapped placard)

"Uh-oh, where is it?"

"Puffing down the track!"

"Foot and feet!"

"More massage the feet?"