Go Away!

As Liliana has entered toddlerdom, she has taken on a new role in Little Ish's life.  She is now interested in the toys that he plays with, and since she only has a modicum of self-control, she often just grabs toys right out of his hands while he is playing.  Little Ish has yet to figure out how to deal with this toy heisting.  His original and most frequent reaction is to get upset and tell me what has happened; he then requests that I intervene.  Impressively, he doesn't generally attempt hitting, biting, or wrestling in order to reclaim the toy.  His most recent attempt to deal with grand theft toy was largely ineffective but incredibly amusing (at least to me).  He started singing, "Go away Lily Rae. Go Away!"  to the tune of "Go Away Big Green Monster".  This in no way got Lily to give back the toy, but by the end of his singing Lily was dancing and he had forgotten about her offense.

And for those of you who have no clue what song I was referring to, here is a video of it.

Brown Pants

It isn't any secret that toddlers are very opinionated and often have a very set preference of how they want things to be.  Little Ish is fairly flexible for a two year old.  He does, however, have one rather specific request that if not met tends to cause a lot of whining and fussing.  He only wants to wear "brown pants" (known to the rest of the world as khakis).  This preference has developed in the past month as he has been perfecting his ability to differentiate between and label different colors.  It is still possible to get him to wear his denim overalls (probably because he doesn't think of them as pants), and occasionally I can get him to wear Uncle Scott pants which is what he calls any pants with vertical stripes down the side.  The biggest fussing hoopla occurs when I try to get him to wear gray pants.  The other morning when I went upstairs to pick out his clothes, he called up after me reminding me, "Mommy, no gray pants!"