Jamey: "Ben, what makes you happy?" (We talk about happy and sad a lot.)

Ben: "Jesus. And Daddy."

What he did not say, but was clearly inferred was, "Mom, you are chopped liver!"

Ben loves anything that we call "big". One day I was teasing him and I said, "Wow! Look at that big belly you have!" He stopped running around and looked down at his tummy and got a huge smile on his face and said, "Yeah! It IS big!" Now he routinely will stop during the day and ask us if he has a big belly and becomes very excited when we assure him that his belly is big. He's also learned how to stick it out so now he'll come up to us and pull his shirt up, slouch down and shove his stomach out while saying, "See how big my belly is?" He thinks it's great. Of course, the first time he tells someone *else* that they have a big belly it's not going to be so great, even if Ben means it as a compliment...

He's moved on, for the most part, from calling us Andrew and Jamey and now he sprinkles conversations with: "Daddy-o" and "ma'amba jamba"...

This is kind of verbal regression, but it's pretty cute nonetheless. I was playing "This Little Piggy" with Elijah the other day and Ben thought it was very funny and so I played it on his toes for awhile too. Now he's completely given up the word toes and uses "piggies" instead.