Hey, kids!
Happy Halloween from me and my little monkey. We ARE planning on doing the whole trick-or-treat thang this evening, and I will let you know how it goes. We will, of course, confiscate any candy Nolan receives and eat it ourselves, like the mean horrible parents we are.
He is a pretty amazing little guy, I have to say. He's talking a LOT, both gibberish and perfectly understandable words. His current fave is "no," said in a sort of adenoidal dragged-out whine, like, "Nnngoooooo..." which he says in reply to any question, whether he actually means "no" or not. He's also fond of "ball," "balloon," "bird," "bubble," and "bear," so I guess he's got the "b" sound down pat. "Mama" and "Dada" are perennial favorites, particularly at 6am when he refuses to recognize daylight savings time and is ready to get up for the day.
He came up with a new "word" that he uses to mean "here is another thing just like this one" when pointing to objects. He'll point to one star, for example, and say, "Gah!," which is "star" in Nolan-ese, and then I'll say, "Yes, that's a star," and then he'll point to another star and go, "A-diddle-diddle," and I'll say, "Yes, that's a star, too." It took me a while to figure out what he meant, because it was a word for a concept rather than a noun. Clearly, he's a genius.
He also snores and talks in his sleep, which is hilarious and adorable and makes my heart feel all squeezy in my chest.
As you can see, he's a monkey for Halloween (at a party last Friday a couple people thought he was a mouse, hence the addition of the prop banana). We're heading over to some friends' neighborhood to trick-or-treat with them, so we won't be home to answer our door, but I'm not too upset about that since we only ever used to get two or three groups of people anyway.
I hope you all have a happy and safe Halloween!
Thanks for reading.
3 comments:
Dang! That last picture is cute. As are the others, a-diddle-diddle.
This is great to see, since I've now forgotten what he looks like with the absence of "Nolan Hoover is now 16 MOTHS OLD" (which I think would have included the official photo of him with CAJ, since Uncle Dru has had no less than THREE photos, ahem.)
Yay! This is the reason to love Halloween... adorable kids in impossibly cute costumes! And confiscated candy, but we'll not make too much noise about that one.
I hope trick-or-treating was fun!
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