Such a boy

Clark loves being outside and he will do almost anything to get there.  His latest scheme is actually quite helpful.  We have 2 dogs who produce ridiculous amounts of poop. Well, being the boy he is Clark has become quite fascinated with poop.  (Don't worry, this is not going where you think!) So now, to get outside he tells me, " Bo, poop".  Which means that we need to go outside and pick up the dog poop.  (Clever, isn't he?)  So yesterday morning we did that because he would not let me do anything else until that was done.  It's like a treasure hunt, I grab a plastic bag and the poop shovel (which he points to until I get it), then he hunts around the yard finding poop which I promptly pick up.  I'm hoping that somehow he still enjoys it this much when it's his chore.... Yesterday, he pressed his luck a little by trying it again in the afternoon.  But I knew better! ;)  Even our dogs don't poop that much.

Hi, you might not remember me....

Oh my.  I'm almost ashamed to write anything since I've been neglecting this blog for so long! 

Where to begin....

Well, our little man is 17 months today!  He is the funniest, sweetest, most outrageous little boy.  I actually had to stop him from giving a tractor tire a kiss the other day (He loves giving kisses and he loves tractors, ergo...).  He loves dancing!  Whenever music comes on he's dancing.  He has one move: dropping it like it's hot.  Crazy baby! He has really come into the world of spoken language full stride.  He says so many "words" it's hard to keep track of, but for the sake of posterity I'm going to try to compose a list. 

Real words: tractor, bird, hello, bye-bye, momma, daddy, papa, mormor, memaw, kitty, dog, up, down, no, please, plane, ball, button, apple, door, out, duck, toe, elmo,

Clarkisms: mo-milk, ow-water, bah-bath, nana-banana, puh-push, taytay-ok, mawmaw-combine(the farm implement), ploh- pillow, maymo-tomato, meemo-shamu(the whale), daw-draw, choochoo-train, achoo-sneeze, bahbah-big truck,

Animal sounds: horse, sheep, cow, elephant, lion, giraffe, rabbit, dog, cat, bear, chicken, pig, frog,

He also is loving playing "chase" with the dogs these days.  He takes something the dog is playing with and runs away so that the dog follows him and then laughs hysterically.  It's pretty cute actually, but I'm sure the dogs wouldn't agree.

My hope is to get a little daily list in here of how Clark is growing and learning, feel free to keep me accountable :)