Toddlerhood Together

We attended the 40th birthday party of one of our neighbor friends.  Linus and Lucero were happy to play together at it, as they haven't seen each other in about three weeks.  Both of our families were going through various strains of colds and stomach bugs, so we stayed away from each other for fear of catching a different strain of virus.  

It was cute to watch them interact.  They shared a chair at the serving table and Linus made sure Lucero got a cup of lemonade and she made sure he had a napkin.  Too cute!  One interesting thing:  Linus was telling her what to do.  I asked them if they wanted cherry jelly on the homemade bread and Linus thought it was funny to say cherry jelly.  So he said it a few times and then told Lucero to say it.  About 6-8 weeks ago Lucero started telling Linus what to do, and just as I've seen throughout the year that we've known Lucero, Linus ends up doing the same thing she did about two months previous.  

Other funny things that have come up lately:

-- Linus was going downstairs with Matthew to start laundry and Linus blew me a kiss and told me, "Have fun with dishes."  Yes, I was doing dishes at the time.

--  While eating strawberry yogurt he explained to me, "Pick strawberries.  Cut them.  Put them in yogurt,"  all while pantomiming the actions.  I thought it was pretty clever of him to piece all of that together because I have never talked to him about how the fruit gets into yogurt.

-- On several occasions today he would call out, "Matthew!"  Then he would turn to me and say that Matthew couldn't hear him, he was too far away at work.