Night 4

The boys seemed eager and ready to get into bed tonight earlier than usual, so I figured they would go to sleep quickly. They talked and talked for more than an hour! My tape ran out, and Ian was crying, so I ended up going in there again. He said his tummy hurt, and I held him for awhile. Alex decided he was ready to lay down and go to sleep, and after some coaxing, Ian agreed to go back into bed also and go to sleep. Here's what happened before that:

I - I'm sick
A - You  have 2 loveys
I - No I'm sick
A - And I'm sick (he drinks and slurps)
I - (laughs) Do that again
A - (sucks funny again)
I - Now lay down. I'm not sick anymore
A - I'm not sick anymore
I - I'm tired
A - OK
I - This is my favorite one. Percy is my favite (favorite) one. Percy is my favite one. Alex
A - What?
I - Percy is my favite one
A - No! No don't have. You seepin?
I - Dat my favorite tain (train).  What you favite tain Alex?
A -  Um...I pick...um...I pick tain...my favite tain is....Percy
I - Percy
A - Percy
I - Percy?
A - No Percy
I - No dat my favite one
A - No my favite one
I - No
A - Who's my favite choo choo?
I - James. Dat is yo favite choo choo
A - Mines?  Dat mines?
I - Yah
A -Oh. Dat mines
I - No dat's you favite one.
A - It's Em-i-lee
I - What?
A - I like Emily
I - I don't like Emily
A - Wha you like? Mommy? (Now they seem to have gone from talking about Thomas trains to our babysitter Emily. Emily is also the name of a Thomas train, though...)
I - Yes I like mommy. You like mommy?
A - I like my lollipop
I - Call mommy now Alex
A - Diaper cose, diaper cose. Ian? Ian?
I - What?
A - You payin wif yo deam (dream) light?
I - Yes
A - I want dat deam light. What's the poople (purple)
I - Dis poople
A - Oh. I wanna see
I - It's poople Alex
A - I can't see poople. Ian let me see it
I - Call mommy. It's wake up time
A - No it's seepin time
I - No I'm not tired now
A - You need drink some wado?
I- No I not tired
A - I gonna drink some wada
Discussion about a funny noise they are making when they both drink
A - What Ian? You Ian and I'm Alex
I - No I'm Note
A - I'm Alex and Note. I'm Alex and you Note, Ian. My name Alex. I'm Alex. Ian? You drink all of yo wado? Not drink all of yo wado? No mo wado Ian?
I - Why?
A - Cuz
I - I no sick anymore. I need my deam light cuz I like my deam light. And my lovey
A - You don't want yo 2 loveys? You fro dat lovey out? You fro dat one out? It's scary one?
I - Dis is yo lovey?
A - Dat?
I - Where my lovey? Where my different lovey?
A - You need one?
I - Yah. Where my other one?
A - Deah (there)
I - Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!
A - Ian need you mommy. Ian need you mommy. Mom Ian need you
I - Mommy, mommy, mommy?
A - Ian? Ian? Ian? Ian...I wanna tell you something
I - What
A -Ummm. Hey shoot
I - Mommy.
A - Call mommy
I - Mommy mommy....I don't have my different lovey. Mommy, I don't have my different lovey mommy. Mommy? I want my different lovey
I come in and give it to him.
I - I need that other one
A - I don't want that lovey so much
I - I like it too. He is so soft. So soft. He have a different nose. Different nose.
Talk about loveys, and how soft they are and their different noses. Some background -- when they were about 2, Ellie reached into a drawer and pulled out 2 little blue bear-faced blankets that they had received when they were born. She called them loveys, and they have been attached to them ever since. We are always able to find them, but about a month ago, I was tired of worrying about them and always searching for them, so I decided to order some spares. I bought a 3-pack, feeling relieved that we could finally was the loveys and have some spares so none would be missed, and if we lost one, we'd have others. But when I showed them the new loveys, they both cried and Alex said it was scary. I figured they were too new looking, so I started walking around the house with them under my feet, and then washing them over and over. They could still tell the difference. Finally I held the 2 up next to each other and sure enough, the faces are different, around the nose. Not much, but enough for them to notice. So that's what they are talking about. Alex still has not warmed up to the new ones, but Ian seems open to the new and the old. Here they are:

The 2 loveys; the new one is on the left

A - Somebody cracked this open
I - Who cracked this open
A - Max cracked this open
I - Who?
A - Max
I - Stand up and show me. Stand up
A - No. No.
I - You want yo Minnie?
A - Where is him?
I - You get yo Minnie Alex
A - Mommy. Mama
I - Reach it. You can reach yo Minnnie
A - I can. (Reaches out of his crib, and pulls Minnie up and into his bed) Yay!
I - Yay!! I don't have my Minnie
A - Oh, Minnie
I - I don't have my Minnie
A - Why?
I - Minnie's
A - What
I - Now I just have one lovey
A - I have 1 Minnie
I - What?
A - I have 1 Minnie
I - I need a banket. You have another one under yo banket?
A - Um, nope. Only 1 under my banket. Ian, it's not a dary (scary) thing. It's not a dary thing.
I - What's not a dary thing?
A - Dis not a dary thing.
I - What?
A - Um, my wado not a dary thing
I - Why?
A - Cuz my wado not a dary thing. My name is wado name. My wado's not dary. Um, called Mitt and Butt and Poop.
I - That my teachers. My teachers are Note and Diaper and Load
A - My teachers are Mitt and Butt and Poop
I - No you already say Poop
A - What
I - You say Poop
A - I say, I say Diaper
I - I say Diaper
A - I didn't say diaper. My teachers are Diaper
I - No
A - I say Diaper. Cuz I want to say Diaper
I - What? I can seep on my pillow. Dat's a good idea lovey
A - Mommy
I - What Alex?
A - Mom?
I - What?
A - Max not doing the right thing. Mommy? Mommy? Ian I wake you up
I - No
A - I need to. I wanna call mommy
I - Ok
A - I won't wake you up. Mommy. I calling mommy. Mommy not coming.  Max not doing the right thing cuz Max close mommy's door
I - Why?
A - Cuz not do the right thing. Max not do the right thing. He need to go back to his room
I - My lovey is tired
A - My lovey is tired. It's seepin. He close his eyes
I - Why?
A - Tired. He need a pillow
I - He lay down next to you. My lovey
A - Cuz he needs
I - I have my different lovey
A - You 2 loveys? We only use 1 at a time
I - Why?
A - We only use 1 lovey
I - There was only 2 loveys. I have 2 loveys in my bed. One, two. Dat right. I talk to my tushy. I was talkin to my tushy
They are talking too quietly for me to understand. I think they are falling asleep, but I know better! Now they are talking about the Sandra Boynton book "Doggies" and keep saying "3 doggies go yap yap yap" back and forth to each other. That is an accurate part of that book!
I- Call mommy, Alex. It's wake up time.
A - No
I - Are you tired Alex?
A - Yah. Tired lovey
I - Are you tired lovey
A - 3 dogs to yap yap yap
I - No don't wake me up
A - I won't, Ian. I won't
I - OK.....Wake up time. Wake up Alex
A - Ian? Ian? You seepin?
I - Don't wake me up
A - OK
They are quiet now, and we're about a half hour in. I think I am going to give up on tonight's post because it is becoming too long and difficult to keep up with them using my old camcorder and constantly rewinding.  I just ordered a digital voice recorder, which should make taping, hearing and transcribing easier for me! Now I just can't wait to get it. It will also allow  me to put the sound on the computer, so if there is a portion that is particularly amusing, I can put the sound in this blog.

We are going out tonight, so a babysitter will be putting the kids to bed.  I haven't decided yet if I'm going to tell her to start the video recorder or not. I'm kind of curious about what they'll say tonight when we are not here, so I am leaning toward having her do it (if she remembers, of course!). I have high hopes that this project will get much easier in about a week, when my new recorder arrives. In the  meantime, I am enjoying hearing my little boys talk each night.