Shopping

Me: Derek what sport do you think mommy played when she was in school?

Derek: uhhhhhh shopping!?

Words galore

Derek has so many words now. He tries to repeat everything! We've been working on his name and he's said it once or twice, but prefers trying to spell it...."D-R"

Toot

Derek just farted while sitting on Scott's lap and then said, "toot!"

Pizza!

Derek loves pizza. And its one of his favorite words. Tonight we had pizza delivered and when it arrived, Derek excitedly shrieked "pizza!!!" It was so cute, I wish we had a video!

Bye dad

We have a first full sentence..."bye dad!"

No no no no

No this is not a Destiny's Child song. Derek started saying "no" this past weekend. I guess we are lucky it took this long for the NO word to make its appearance.

I can't even remember what I asked him, but it resulted in him running up and down the hallway chanting no over and over. Then tonight I said, "here have some dinner," and the response was one big emphatic NO!

NOOOOOOOOOO!

Ho ho ho!

Christmas season is over, but Derek still seems to have the spirit. While shopping on New Year's Day, +Scott Hammerslag and I hear a faint "ho ho ho" coming from Derek's stroller. We look around and notice a sales associate with a long brown bushy beard. Later in the day at another store, we walked by a gentlemen with a white beard and mustache and once again hear a quiet "ho ho ho" come from Derek. Makes sense, he associates a beard with Santa. The following day when giving him a Teddy Graham cracker, Derek once again says, "ho ho ho!" Maybe the big round belly?