Vocab with Liam

Liam has an Elmo's "Great Outdoors" DVD that teaches kids where animals live, in between singing songs with redundant lyrics to the tune of "Jingle Bells." Elmo asks the kids where elephants live and then gives three options to choose from. The correct answer is "grassland" of course, and Liam has really latched on to that. He refers to our yard as the "grassland" and asks "is this the grassland, Mom?" Sure it's the grassland, Buddy! That is too cute!

Liam is also interested in what the wind does, and how it can blow things around. He gets very upset if the wind moves something that he is playing with. He was telling me the other day that he was going to play with his ball, but he will hold on tight so it "doesn't wind away." Ahahaha. "Wind away." There is also an action verb that can be used - "winded," as in "Mama! My ball just winded away!"

Liam's class is learning about how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly (or "a BEAUTIFUL butterfly" according to Liam). He was trying to tell me about caterpillars in the car this morning, but couldn't quite get the word out.

"Ha-kip-ter...Kap-a-tiller...Ha-kip-ter...Mama, do it for me!"

I said "Cat-er-pillar?" and he was finally able to do it. Once. Before reverting back to "Ha-kip-ter." So cute.