One-Eye

As you know, there's a total lunar eclipse tonight. Since it's a bit chilly outside, Daddy set up the telescope in the living room, looking through the skylights. Karston loves telling you when he sees the moon (Moon! Moon!) in general, and he enjoys looking through the telescope too. He calls it "one-eye" because you close one eye and put the other eye to the monocular. (He also says one eye when one eye is hidden, say by his jacket hood.) Tonight he's very excited (that's why he's up late, sigh), Look at the moon hide! He's paying much more attention to the eclipse than I would have expected from someone who isn't even 32 months old, but I suppose he's curious about everything!

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See My Fanny?

I don't know where he got this, but Karston now has three words for his derrière. When he needs a fresh diaper, he'll sometimes tell you that his butt hurts. When he's giving you a tour of the body parts he knows, he pats there and says hiney. This weekend he added a funny one where he would find one of us, turn around with his back to us, say see my fanny?, and wiggle his fanny at us. When he did that to me on Saturday, he had unfastened his diaper on one side, and needed his diaper pulled back up into position. When he did that to Daddy on Sunday, he needed his diaper changed. But when he did it a couple times today, I think he just wanted to make me laugh. And it worked!

I have no idea where he learned this, but it's very funny to watch. If we can get him to do it on demand, I'll try to get a video of it.

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How Was Your Day?

I teach a class Wednesday evenings, so I get home late, sometimes after Karston has gone to bed. Last night I tiptoed into his bedroom, and (oops) he was awake. He sat up in bed, Mommy! To undo that damage, I quickly hopped in his bed to demonstrate how to fall asleep. He started to talk to me, Mommy, I sat in Sue! I fell down! I got a boo-boo, boo-boo on leg. I snuck away later, and as I fell asleep in my own bed, I realized what Karston was doing. Karston was telling me about his day! He's heard us go through "How was your day, dear?" enough that I guess he figures that's what you do when someone comes home. I like this habit! It fits well with being his own narrator, too.

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The Narrator

Karston has started narrating himself. Mommy, I fell down. Mommy, I got up. I'm running! When he's narrating, I know exactly what he's doing even when I'm not looking at him! Plus it lets me know what he thinks he's doing, and I like this insight. I chase the kitty. ROAR! I close the door. From his narration I have also learned that he knows more words than I thought. Sometimes he repeats what we say, and I wasn't sure if he knew the meaning; now I know he understands. We've cut out TV shows that we find funny but inappropriate now; we knew it would need to happen sometime.

Earlier this afternoon, Karston was very concerned that an outlet in his room had two different child-safe covers, one milky-white and one clear. He dug through the drawer for another milky-white outlet cover, and let me know that the clear cover had to go. Well, the clear one was very tight, so I told Karston that I needed to get some tools. I went to get a plastic slotted screwdriver, and Karston also trotted off. He came back with the small blunt orange pliers (fairly safe) that Daddy lets him carry when Karston says he needs tools. He definitely like tools! I pried the clear outlet cover off, and Karston picked it up with his pliers saying I take away. He wants matching outlet covers in the same receptacle, and he wants to help any time tools come out. He was in Daddy-only mode yesterday morning until he saw me with tools ... too tempting! Tools! I help! I help! He picked up all the small screws while I installed a switch on his diaper wipes warmer (I don't see why it has to run all the time).

So he's his own narrator, and he loves tools.

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LEGOs

Karston has been playing with Legos a lot this week, the regular-sized Legos for age 4+. He's very serious! The Legos are a bit small for him, but he keeps trying. Mimi says he tried to play with Legos with his Tigger gloves on, but that didn't work well. When we moved into our house, we found some old Legos from the Fort LEGODERO set (although there's only one figure, a bandit, left). Now that he's seen those, he barely looks at the Lego duplo size anymore, and until this week, he loved that size.

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