A little bit of wordplay

Language is fun, isn't it?

1) I mentioned last month that Isaac had begun singing "Yankee Doodle Dandy." He has found that the song lends itself readily to adaptation -- how about "Yankee Doodle Daddy"?

2) Another bit of musical wordplay involves a whiffle ball bat and the playing of air guitar -- more specifically, he says he is playing "baseball bat guitar." Get it? Bass guitar? Like Uncle Joel plays?

3) In the course of removing the old siding from our house, we used a small nail-pulling crowbar called a catspaw. Isaac really enjoyed this name, and promptly began to call another type of crowbar, the pry bar, a dogspaw. Then Craig and I started calling it that. We'll probably still be calling it that when Isaac is 50 years old.

4) On his birthday, Isaac opened presents that were wrapped; last week he was playing with my hair, and I told him that he was wrapping some of it around his finger. He thought this use of the same word was pretty cool, and now he plays a game where he entangles his hand in my hair and says, "Mama unwrap present!"

I carefully unwrap the hair, and exclaim with happy surprise, "It's a hand!" Then I give it a kiss.

But yesterday the game changed -- he still winds his hand in my hair and tells me to unwrap the present, but then he immediately pulls his own hand free and says, "Too late; I already unwrapped that present." He does still present his hand for a kiss, however.