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While Liam was reciting his memory verse earlier this week:

"So God created man in his own image,

In the image of God he created him;

Male and email he created them."

                   -Genesis 1:27

I about peed myself laughing! Clearly he's heard the word "email" more than the word "female".

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Simon is forever confused by the pronouns "our" and "their".

When he's listing off people we're going to see at church/park/pool/friend's house it will go something like this: "Imma see Joriiiick and Eduaaaaard and Loulouuuuuu and our moooooom and our daaaaaad." or "Imma see Leaaaaa and Melooooo and our baaaaaaaby and our mooooooom and our daaaaaaad." In both examples, "our" actually means "their".

I think it's super cute. He'll figure it out eventually, so I don't  bother to correct him.

We run into trouble, however, when I tell him that someone is coming to our house to play, forgetting that he'll interpret that to mean that we are going to their house to play.

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Andrew, now 8 1/2 months old, has two new favorite activities both of which can be done in the bathroom:

• Unrolling the entire roll of toilet paper. He does this not by spinning, but pulling, pulling it down, hand over fist. Gleefully. Twice I've found him sitting proudly in a fluffy mountain of toilet paper, squealing and grinning from ear to ear; 
• Playing with the door stopper. It would be more accurate to say that he has a love/hate relationship with the door stoppers. He does enjoy the sound they make while he's whacking and batting at them, but his ultimate goal is to pull them clean off the wall. Because chewing on things trumps hitting them.
  

Much to Andrew's utter dismay, the door stopper in Peter and my bedroom present a serious challenge. Once easily removed, it has now been screwed in extra tight (thanks, daddy) and will not come off.

No matter how hard our little man pulls. No matter how loudly he grunts or how piercing his screams . No matter the heights of his aggravation, that door stopper will. not. budge. And the ensuing trantrums -8 month old tantrums!- are hilarious.

And what do his father and I do while our infant son is in the throws of frustration? We stand back and watch. And laugh.

Remind us of this when he's two and throwing dishes at our heads.

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Things that Simon says that I don't want to forget:

• ipok = iPod
• ob-lobs = Loblaws (grocery store chain)
• I need a so high push. = wants to be pushed on the swing
• el-ah-peen = machine (we have no idea where this came from)
• day-ber = Xavier
• Mummy, please you say we watch Cars? = at nauseum every time we drive anywhere
• Andrew is my friend. = Awww. But it's more like, "Andwew id mah dweeeend."

There are more that I've been meaning to jot down, but I'm drawing a blank.