The cute things he says ...

I haven't done this in awhile, so over the past couple of days, I've compiled some of the cute things Nate is saying now:

Let's start with trains. He gets new trains all the time (Thomas has a thousand friends, and lucky for us, you can collect them all), usually from Blake or his Granna and Pop. And before he gets home with his new train, he's already decided which one he wants next. Right now it's Rusty, and no one has been able to find Rusty, until today--my mom found him in Virginia. Nate will randomly say, "Where's Rusty?" and we say we don't know and ask him where, and he says, "He's at the store! Let's go find him!" When Blake got back from Vegas, he took Nate to buy a new train, and they picked out Stanley. Nate calls him "Stant-wee." It's very cute.

Speaking of trains, Nate pretends they talk to each other. Here's an example of a conversation he creates between Gordon and James:

Gordon: Hey, James, what you do today?
James: I go to da coal yards.
Gordon: You go over there, pwease.
James: No, no!
Gordon: I say PWEASE!
James: Okay
Gordon: Thank you
James: You're welcome

Today when we left for aquatherapy, he said, "Bye, trains. Have fun!"

Yesterday, Nate got a package in the mail from my mom--some school clothes. I pulled out a shirt, and he said, "Ooh, it has a square on it." Then I pulled out two pairs of shorts, and he said, "Ooh, they're nice! I wuv them!"

A little later, I heard Nate calling Maggie "Binga." He just made up a new name for her. So I asked what my new name was, and he said, "Mamote." Then we made up names for everyone else, and I am so sleep deprived that I thought it was just as funny as he did, and we laughed and laughed.

He continues asking what everything is. What dat dinner? What dat book about? What dat noise? What dat name?

Yesterday, I asked Nate a question, and he said something that sounded just like "Yes, sir." Then when Blake got home, he said it again, and we both heard it. We've never been sticklers for him saying sir and ma'am, but he's picked it up somewhere. Except everyone is sir. I heard "Yes, sir" all day long. So we had a talk about how he should say Yes, Ma'am" to girls like mama and his new teacher. I said, "You understand?" He said, "Yes, sir."