"No poop, no pee -- clean" (said after being clad in a fresh diaper)
"Plug in baby monitor" [pronounced monter]
"Good dog Walt" [pronounced Yalt, since he doesn't do W]
"Mama own water" (said after he had offered me a drink from his sippy cup, which I had declined due to having a glass of my own)
"Open closet please"
"Down bed climb"
"Daddy up big hill" (said as he stood at the foot of the hill in our back yard, probably remembering how his father carried him up it recently)
"Opa and Oma house" (said in response to the question, "Where are we going this weekend?")
"Pop up baby duck" (said, strangely enough, on the changing table, apparently because he was thinking about how the small rubber duckie dramatically pops up to the surface of the bath if you let it go after holding it under the water)
These phrases are interesting from a language development perspective, but they don't really do much communicative good -- unlike these three one-word statements:
I went in to his room one night after hearing him cry out, and I found him standing sadly in the middle of the room. "Hug," he said. I picked him up and obliged. "Milk," he said. No, I told him, it wasn't time for milk. "Bed," he said. I set him down in his bed, and he immediately fell back asleep.
If only it was always that easy.
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