It has been awhile...

Since a visit with GS 2.  He lives far away, and the Internet is cheaper than an airline ticket...face time causes procrastination in travel arrangements. 

So last week we experienced the adorableness.  The favorite word is "no" , used frequently, and with many shades of emphasis.  The physical ability exceeds the mental awareness of danger.  The mental processing makes connections at light speed to things you did not know he was paying attention to.  Although it seems to rarely happen, his parents got one "just like them". 

He is on warp speed, full steam ahead until he drops.  He attacks each new (and old) adventure with an enthusiasm and gusto that is both endearing and exhausting.  His baby blue eyes have a million expressions, most cleverly designed to manipulate others into doing his bidding.  He knows what he wants--and he literally runs after it.

He is beginning to command language--beyond the "no".  Cake is "happy", because at his mothers recent birthday (featuring cake, of which he discovered he is fond of) included singing of "happy birthday".  So "happy" became his current nomenclature for cake and cake-like items--which was explained the night before when a complimentary cake arrived at our table following dinner, and captures his until then restless tolerance of adult dining.   

And as Grandmother, what do you get the child who has it all?  The answer came to me in the aisle of Target---sprinkles for his nightly treat--ice cream.  What kid doesn't like sprinkles?  It is small, inexpensive, disposable, and "fun"--a gift to please parent and child alike (and probably some dentist in the future).   So as I present this to him that evening, adding it to his mini-cone, he exclaims "Happy!!!"  and with some translation help from mom, we decode the association with the sprinkles on the birthday cake---So, we now have "Happy!" on our ice cream.....and to make your heart melt, he holds up the licked Ice Cream---and says---Dad-dy, more Happy!!!! and bats the blue eyes pleadingly.

Who could not give the kid more sprinkles????