October 12, 2011 ~ Billy the puppy?

This morning Billy started crawling around. He refused to walk and wanted us to chase him. We didn't know what was going on with Walking Baby, who was suddenly back to Crawling Baby. Then he started making this "eh! eh!" noise. Oh... I got it. Billy is pretending to be Buddy!

Billy has developed this "barking" sound to talk to Buddy. By the way, it sounds NOTHING like barking. When Buddy barks, Billy repeats the bark pattern with "eh! eh!" It's the Billy Bark.

I'm actually not surprised that Billy thinks he's a dog. Everyone under the sun calls Billy "buddy". It's a cute pet name for a little boy- the problem is, it's OUR pet's name. I've asked the daycare ladies to stop calling him "buddy", but even Grandma and Grandpop and our close friends have difficulty not calling him "buddy". In hindsight, perhaps not the best name for a dog. Not that we named Buddy. I imagine it's VERY confusing to Billy that people called Buddy "Buddy" and Billy "buddy".

Dinnertime brought more dog behavior. Well, I laughed and recognized it, not that Lil Man knew the reference. He had pasta for dinner.

Yes, he was slurping pasta from his bowl one strand at a time just like Lady and Tramp do in the movie. In the photo he's almost finished sucking in a strand. As you can see, all baby haute cuisine comes with cheerios.

Adventures in Pasta was followed by a thorough hosing down. While in the tub he got a very pained look on his face and didn't want to play with his toys. Uh oh. "If you have to poop, wait until Mommy gets your diaper on!" (That's the LAST thing we need in the tub). He hopped out quickly and it was off to diaper up. What do you know? He waited and I had no messy cleanup. Maybe potty training won't be too hard when we get to it. (Fingers crossed!)