Cooper insists that every drink is water. So when he suddenly realizes he is thirsty, he starts shouting, "water, water" which could mean water or milk. Very occasionally it even means juice. But how am I to know that?! I'll ask him if he wants water or milk and he always says water. Then when I give him water, he cries and stands at the fridge until I get out the milk. I smile and say, "This is milk, Cooper, not water, milk." He ALWAYS laughs and replies, "water". At breakfast, he is always so excited to get that water poured onto his cereal. The white creamy water…but don't assume he always wants milk when he says water. Getting out milk when in fact he wanted water and said WATER is a much more alarming mistake!
It isn't that he can't say milk, because I've heard him say it lots of times. Like so many words these days. This morning, he delighted Madeline and Ethan when he saw a banana in a book and said as plain as day, "a banana!" And yesterday he walked over to the door and said, "Open door. . . let's go shopping! . . . to store." He has been putting two and three words together more and more often. Todd even taught him to count to three. At dinner yesterday he announced, "one, two, three!"
My favorite thing is how he folds hims arms and says, "amen" at the end of prayers. What a sweetheart Cooper is.
