Aug 29 2007
Back seat driver
Fuller’s personality really has been blossoming lately. Things I want to remember:
He has been a copycat for a while now, but he recently took it a step further and actually remembers things he copied from a few days ago. For instance, a while back I was calling for Damon and Fuller repeated, “Dah-MON! Dah-MON!” and then we all giggled at the little boy calling his Daddy by his first name.
And then the other day when Damon wasn’t replying to “Daddy!” Fuller switched tactics and started calling for “Dah-MON! Dah-MON!” We decided to ignore Fuller when he calls for Damon, responding only when Fuller says “Daddy.” (We almost have “Yes, Sir,” “No, Sir” down as well.) (”Yes, Ma’m” sounds like “Yes, Man.”)
Yesterday I took him over to Luke’s house to play. Fuller was strapped in his car seat, in the back. He suddenly started giving me directions, “That way, Mommy! That way!” “Faster! Quick, quick!” He said it with such urgency and an air of knowing exactly what he was doing. Except, I couldn’t go faster since we were stopped (silly red lights keeping him from his friend).
We are still making our way through potty training… he gets it, yet he doesn’t get it. And that might only make sense if you watch enough Sesame Street. I’m waiting for the day he gets it and does it. That will be glorious.













Rehema calls her daddy at times, it sounds soo sweet. She has also called him by his first name…Siya!
I meant, she calls her daddy…honey!! and like you guys, we ignore her when she calls him Siya
Hey I think all kids go thru that stage I know my son went thru calling me by first name only cause he got it from everyone else. And I think it is so cute him being a back seat driver …