Prestonisms

• Preston had croup and I had him outside to help open up his airway. I had him in my arms and he was kind of laying back looking up. It was cloudy and the inversion was terrible and it was cold enough that you could see his breath in the air. He said, "Hey mommy, look! I blowing the cloudies up in the sky." Even when he's sick he's got a great attitude!
• I was making bread and I poured a little oil on my hands so the dough wouldn't stick to them. Preston looked at his hands, looked at his cup of lemonade and started to tip it out onto his hands. At this rate, I will have that kid making homemade bread in no time. :)
• Out of the blue one day, Preston came in and said, "Dylan just beeped me up." I'm pretty sure he meant "beat me up" but Dylan was nowhere near Preston. Crazy kid!
• Preston thinks the little alien guys from Toy Story are named Romeo because of the part in Toy Story 3 at the end where they are acting out a scene from Romeo and Juliet. He'll see the alien (I've been informed they are called LGM - little green men) and say "Hey, It's Romeo, Mommy."
• He's also started playing with toys more. He'll bring the animals over to me to have them eat or drink.
• Preston was having his zebras eat out of my hand and said, "They want some 'yo-keys' Mommy." He was referring to gnoccis, an Italian potato-based pasta that Marcos' family loves.
• He says "ice ca-yube" and separates words with an extra syllable like that often.
• Instead of saying "Team Umi Zoomi," the cartoon he likes to watch, he will say "Toomy Zoomy."
• When Preston sees the Disney castle at the beginning of Disney movies, he yells out, "Look, it's a temple!"
• Preston often speaks gibberish. He'll put a pretend phone up to his ear and say, "Ca-lee ca-loo. No key. Ca-lee ca-loo."
• We have been reading Dr Doolittle at night and Preston refers to it as Dr. Do Livin'.
• Preston started holding the ends of his words really long. He will say, "Sandwich ch ch" or "toys s s s" and "garage ge ge".
• One day he said, "I have a dia, Mommy." I couldn't figure out what he was talking about, but thought he must be using the word for day in Spanish. I finally realized he was saying, "I have an idea."
• Preston says, "Can I hatch the egg?" instead of "Can I crack the egg?" when we're baking.
• He changes the way he says words all the time. For awhile, he was adding extra syllables. He would say, "Thomas and the ba-ig ba-ig ba-ridge" instead of "Thomas and the big big bridge." He would say "ta-rain". He would also click at the end of his words. "Ta-rain" and then click his tongue while it was at the top of his mouth from a word ending in "n."
• Preston says, "We're thank thee" instead of "we thank thee." He says, "We're thank thee for this day. Please bless Dylan. Please bless Marissa. Please bless Mommy..." He sometimes gets stuck there and just looks around and I have to help him finish his prayer. But one day he kept going saying, "and the Holy Ghost and the God of the miracles..." It was all stuff from scriptures and Articles of Faith Dylan had been memorizing. Too cute!
• Preston was really excited about Halloween this year. He kept saying, "I need my costume" but I'm pretty sure he was referring to his basket that had candy in it.
• We had chicken enchiladas and he was asking me if Anthony could have one. He said, "Can Anthony have chicka... chicka... chicka-licka-ladas?"
• Preston came over to me out of the blue and said, "Mommy, my not name is Spencer." For those who don't know, that's an inside joke at our house. Marcos' brother couldn't remember Preston's name when he was first born and in the NICU at the hospital. They were saying family prayers and when he tried to bless Preston he hesitantly said, "Please bless (pause) Spencer?..." Amy (my sister-in-law) said it was a very heartfelt, serious prayer, but was super funny that he didn't remember his name. So now Esteban calls Preston Spencer every time he sees him. Apparently Preston was confused and just wanted to make sure I knew his name wasn't Spencer.
• Preston had a sliver on his knee. Dylan was looking for it and said, "Where is it? Oh, here's the sliver." Preston pulled his knee away and said, "Hey, don't touch the slithery!"
• Preston calls me "Mommy Sister A-bold-EE"
• I was helping Preston play a computer game. He had to match up shapes that then spelled a word. He told me which shape to get and where to put it. He said, "Get the circle, get the square, get the triangle..." Then he saw a parallelagram and paused for a minute. He said, "Get that one...the shelf."