Yikes! He's learned to say (and read) "No!"

Everyone tells me that I should dread the day my son learns the word "no." Well he's done it. We've been reading No David! by David Shannon, and the back of the book is covered with the word no. Before going to bed he had a book frenzy and spent ten minutes waving his finger at the book and saying no. Quinn was surprised. "How does he know that that says no?"

Then in the morning Calvin went straight to a big no no, the humidifier, and started shaking the tank, saying "no." I was about to say no myself. Then he noticed the electrical outlet behind him and his baby finger went for it. "NO!" I cried, and took him downstairs to find some trouble there.

He's getting demanding!

Calvin just turned one and he's started to get so demanding with books. He waves his books at us and begs us to read it. If we don't he throws himself on the floor or pulls on our legs and yells or cries. It kind of makes me proud to know that he likes his books so much, but it's one after the other and sometimes he wants the same book four or five times in a row!

So Quinn and I have been teaching him to say "please" before we read the book. At first he didn't know how to pronounce it, so it was frustrating, but we read if anything came out that even remotely sounded like please. He was sitting on the floor like King Tut, wanting to hear The Belly Button Book, and Quinn said, "say please," and he spewed "pppluhhhh!"

But since he makes us read to him so much, he's starting to remember the names of the books themselves. He actually says "cookie" when he wants to hear When you Give a Mouse a Cookie. Quinn was still trying to get him to say please, but Calvin was baby yelling the title of the book, and for a few days, before Quinn could tell what Calvin was saying, there were some frustrating times when Calvin said "Zoo" and Quinn was refusing to read "Dear Zoo" because he wasn't saying please.