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This started as stuff Evie has said that I've remembered to write down. If only I had started sooner. I've missed things like "I almost agot", "Mmmmm, goot", "Farshfellows are yummy, yummy, yummy", "All the people", "Hubba, Hubba, Hubba", "Baa Baa Boo", "Cowabunga, Dude!", "A Lion Guard Bliund Bag", "I do it", "Oh, yaaaah", "I'm a Haidband Haid", "Dey Cazzy". As of 2017, we've added stuff Andy says, too. I sometimes forget to post it before I've forgotten what they said or did so this is by no means all the funny things that have happened. And you also don't get to see the looks on their faces, the tone of voice they used or the hand gestures that go along with it. I wish I'd had something like this for my kids!

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Then

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Andy – “Bango, Bango. Yummy!”
Nana – “It’s Mango. M-M-Mango.”
Andy – “M-M-Bango!”
You have to experience these to really enjoy them but I thought if I wrote them down, I’d remember them better. It really is pretty adorable when you hear them.
When Andy is crying he’s been saying things like
“It’s okaaaaay!”
or “I’m sooooo sad!”
Nana – “Say Thank You, Nana!”
Andy – “Welcome!”
For the last couple months or so Andy has been saying sorry. He says it real cute, too. I can’t get the inflection, accent, tone, whatever here but it comes out kinda sounding like ‘sa-ee’. Whenever any of us hear anyone saying sorry, we hear Andy say ‘sa-ee’. I was never convinced that he knew what he was saying but, if not, he sure did say it at opportune moments. Like today. He was babbling and the following conversation took place:
Nana – “I don’t know.”
Andy – “Why?”
Nana – laughing, “Because I can’t understand what you’re saying!”
Andy – (you guessed it) “Oh, sa-ee!”
Andy has been watching a lot of Super Why lately. We have magnetic letters on the fridge and Evie points to them and he calls them out. He recognized about 6-8 that she tested him on while I was watching. He’s still about a week or so away from a year and a half. I did a video to prove it on 1/31 but it was too big to upload, apparently. Since then, he’s not been quite as cooperative but yesterday I got a really good one of him doing like 5 in a row. It was too long, too! So I went back to the 31st video and trimmed it so it’s only 3 letters. But he can do a lot more.
He won’t be a year and a half for a little less than a month still but he can already reach stuff on the counter!!


Evie – “Ahhhh, it’s nice out here. It’s like a cup full of warm and a half a cup full of cold.”