{"id":485,"date":"2013-01-14T19:13:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T00:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maxhopkins.com\/?p=485"},"modified":"2013-01-14T19:13:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T00:13:18","slug":"how-my-sons-vocabulary-evolved-over-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maxhopkins.com\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"How my son&#8217;s vocabulary evolved over the holidays&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past few weeks, our family enjoyed many of the traditional elements of the holidays &#8211; lights, food, shopping, sledding, singing songs, and opening presents. In our house, where we celebrated Christmas morning for the first time in over a decade, we found ourselves celebrating <em>other<\/em> things&#8230;&#8230;.like the fact that it took 3 hours to open presents because Max had to play with everything and the shocking number of new catch phrases he picked up.<\/p>\n<p>So, here is the list of words and phrases that Max started saying during the holiday break. I know I haven&#8217;t captured all of them, but you get the idea.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amen, brotha!<\/li>\n<li>How are you doing?<\/li>\n<li>No, YOU&#8217;RE cute<\/li>\n<li>No<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve got a boo-boo (pronounced bew-bew like a southern belle)<\/li>\n<li>I see you!<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m Superman! I&#8217;m Batman! I&#8217;m Spid-a-man! (Note: Max has never seen anything but images of these figures.)<\/li>\n<li>Jingle bells, jingle bells, rocks<\/li>\n<li>Merry Christmas<\/li>\n<li>Stinky poo-poo (or &#8220;What&#8217;s that? Toots! Stinky poo-poo!)<\/li>\n<li>I found doo-doo<\/li>\n<li>Fresh a-Beat Band<\/li>\n<li>Let&#8217;s go to base-a-ment<\/li>\n<li>Play in bounce house, c&#8217;mon!<\/li>\n<li>I got, I got, I got, I got legs! (Bad rendition of Loco Legs by the Fresh Beat Band)<\/li>\n<li>Ewwww<\/li>\n<li>Bless you, Dadda<\/li>\n<li>Happy birt-day, baaaaby Jeeeesus. Haaaappy birtday to you!<\/li>\n<li>I have hiccups<\/li>\n<li>I want cookies<\/li>\n<li>You OK, mama?<\/li>\n<li>All gone, Dadda, p*nis all gone [Dad&#8217;s response: No Max, it&#8217;s still there. Your \u00c2\u00a0pee-pee is gone.]<\/li>\n<li>Kiss it (as in a &#8220;bew-bew&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Shake that bottom line<\/li>\n<li>I had a dream, something something something, I had a dream<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My favorite exchange:<\/p>\n<p>[Max:] <em>Mama, I something something blah, blah, snack.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[Me:] <em>You want a snack?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[Max:] <em>OKAY!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of the above, I can only take credit for &#8220;You OK, mama?&#8221; which followed a Pete Rose dive to rescue my son from ending a speedy sled-ride in the pond behind our house. Long story and I&#8217;m still hopeful my neighbors don&#8217;t have video of it.<\/p>\n<p>I blame the rest of them on Max&#8217;s overwhelming new feeling of Christmas Spirit, his older cousins, friends with older kids, his grandparents (yes, YOU, grandpas and grandmas and peepaws and peepons), and last but not least, Daddy.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to all of you from the bottom of my heart. I haven&#8217;t stopped laughing. Seriously.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past few weeks, our family enjoyed many of the traditional elements of the holidays &#8211; lights, food, shopping, sledding, singing songs, and opening presents. 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