Translations of Roman-speak into plain English:
- Blowmaker: Windmill
- Ding-Dong: Doorbell
- Five more mi-uts: "Five more minutes!!" (Always said while holding up his index finger in the air; most often used to let us know he doesn't want to obey right now; always used before bath-time, bedtime, and diaper changing time to delay the inevitable)
- Jamas: Pajamas
- Mailman truck: Mail Truck
- Mill-low: Middle
- Nop: Mop
- Oozing: Using (typically, "But I'm still oozing it!")
- Peer-it: Parrot
- Suns: Sunglasses (also refers to Daddy's glasses with this word)
- Sweeper: Broom
- Swimpoop: Swimsuit
- Tia: Tortilla
More of our favorites from 26-28 months:
- Favorite conversation:
- Roman:(standing on chair)
- Me:"Please sit on your bottom on the chair."
- Roman:"This is NOT a chair. This is my garbage man truck!"
- Roman loves to gallop around now
- Favorite foods: the free cookies they give you at HEB and Sam's Club, any samples he can find while grocery shopping, and olives of any color. Roman loves to put them on his fingers, and it drives him crazy that the green ones have pimentos in them!
- Roman has started added -a (-uh) at the ends of words and sentences (e.g., "Me get down-a!" and "No-a!")
- Favorites:
- Constructing a "car transporter" by piling his matchbox cars on top of one another
- Puzzles
Needed a little help from Aunt Claire
June 26, 2015 - Playing with play-doh and making Mommy "pancakes"
- Making "coffee"
- Building with Mega-Blocks (especially, building towers, houses, and "Cranky," the crane from Thomas the Train)
- Watching Curious George
- Pretending to mop & sweep
- Playing with water table
June 24, 2015 - Mowing the lawn (both inside and out)
June 22, 2015 - Playing with his bean box/table
- Giving hugs to cousin, William
William & Roman
Gaylord Texan family trip: July 4, 2015 - Playing with babies (especially cousins Emma & Ezra)
Playing with Becca. Roman is naturally very gentle with babies!
April 16, 2015
Playing with cousin, Ezra
July 14, 2015 - Roman likes to pile up all of his little comfort objects in his crib after waking up and before going to sleep. He piles up his blanket, Froggie, Bevo, Chester (the raccoon), and bunny.
- Favorite book: Little Owl's Night, by Divya Srinivasan
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