Chanler's vocabulary is simply amazing (yes I am biased) and he has mastered some pretty complex words, but there are a couple of words now and again that he just has wired in wrong, and he consistently says the them the same way - eventually they just flip and he starts saying them the way that everyone else says them.

Currently we have elfluent (the pachyderm with the trunk), hosible (where the ambulances go) and murdicle cars (the open air kind). Too funny :)

Chanler and I were walking out to the mail box the other day, and he picked up a stick off the ground. He holds it up for me to see points up at the big tree nearby and says, "That tree made my stick!"

"I want to go to the restaurant where they say trebuchet"

A bit of background:
Our favorite Japanese restaurant is Miyake's in Palo Alto and Cupertino. It is great for lunch, but gets a bit crowded, loud and noisy at dinner time. Anyway when you are seated, the waiter who seats you yells something that ends with "shea," ALL the other waiters and sushi makers yell back to him again ending with shea. Over the years we have gone there, we have developed our own inside joke that they are yelling Trebuchet, because that is really what it sounds like. I am sure they are saying something is Japanese to welcome us or something, but it literally sounds like trebuchet.

I don't know where Chanler picked this up, because we don't make that joke much anymore (because it is old to us), But we were driving in Menlo Park one day talking about getting some food when out of the back some the phrase above. I was floored and a bit embarrassed. I mean if my kid knows a restaurant well enough to want to go there . . . I must be eating there too much.

More to come later . . .but here is a sneak peak at what Chanler got for Christmas

It's at Skuut bike and lets just say he LOVES it.

At the end of his nap this afternoon Chanler said something very funny. I had started moving around in an attempt to get him to wake up, while still letting him wake himself up, because that leads to a MUCH better overall mood. Anyway, Chanler rolled onto his side, curled up and said with his eyes still closed "I'm all done sleeping*." His mother on the other hand has been know to tell you that she is awake, getting dressed even, all the while still sleeping.

*This phrase is what Chanler says anytime he wakes up - from sleeping overnight, nap time, before he is asleep at nap time, at 3 am when he wakes up, etc. It is not my favorite thing to hear!

Just had to note the cuteness of taking the same picture in different years!

Nutcracker in 2007

Nutcracker in 2005