We went to the park today and found a pleasant surprise…there was a car show going on. All of these old classics were all over the place and it instantly made me thing of Grandma and Grandpa Smith. Ian wasn’t so sure about it at first. We tried playing on the tot lot, but with all the cars around and all the different people coming and going, he kept getting distracted and didn’t want to play much. So we roamed around the car show and he saw a car that he really liked. He kept going back to it and checking out the wheel axles. I’m not sure what the car was, but it looked like the picture.

Since the park was pretty much a bust, we went to Border books to find some new Touchy-Feely books but they really didn’t have any I liked. They had some Ian doesn’t have, but I wasn’t crazy about the feely parts. All of them pretty much had the same words that we already have – fuzzy, scratchy, rough, etc. But one did have a touch I haven’t seen before – rusty. I do want to get him the That’s Not My Robot and That’s Not My Monster, but I haven’t come across them in Barnes & Noble or Borders yet. We did end up leaving the store with some new books, so Ian still made out.

When we got home, Ian was being a little clingy and while it was annoying, once we started listening to what he was saying, we figured out he was saying “Me”. He was just going walking around me, holding his arms up so I could pick him up, saying “me me me me”. I finally did pick him up (I was trying to make dinner at the time) and Jesse & I started pointing out what “me” was. We were pointing to ourselves and saying “ME” and then we started doing teh same thing with “YOU”. We didn’t think he would pick it up that quickly, but when Jesse pointed to me, Ian said “YOU”. We haven’t been able to get him to say it again, but he’s starting to pick up words and repeating them back to you. He’s getting mama and daddy down, but he’s still not doing it on command. He knows who we are and what we want when we say the words, but he’s not repeating them yet. However, he is picking up different words and repeating them at odd intervals. He may not repeat what you say when you say it, but he’ll do it eventually. With that said, everyone needs to start watching what they say around him. Jesse & I know we have to work on it, but this is everyone else’s warning.