Watch out, french fry!

Lately, all three boys linguistic skills have just blossomed. It has been totally delightful to listen to all the off the wall things they say. As I am writing this, Cole is building a train and talking about how great it is and how I am going to get to see it. Then he follows up with, "how lucky are you, Mom?" Funnier yet is Carter's recent discovery that he can make people laugh using all his new words. On our way to Arizona, the big boys were telling Carter to repeat various things. At one point Cole was having him count (repeat after me style). Every once in a while, rather than obligingly repeating, Carter would shout out, "french fry!" This would immediately send all of us into hysterics. After a while the funniness wore off. When it did, Carter switched to "pancake" and then to "bagel." We can't get over his sense of humor at 19 months old. Also, I have been trying to work on animal sounds with Carter. For a while he seemed to know several, but now, when I ask him what an animal says, his response is "watch out!" I'm not quite sure where he got it from, but I can't help laughing when he does it, which only reinforces the behavior.