Nate-ism's

A few Nate-isms to start your day with a smile.

1. Eyewater = tears (ie. Nate make eyewater.)

2. Jingle Bears = the current name for his gummy bear vitamins (I have no idea where this came from)

3. Mommy hold you, right now = what he mutters over and over and over as a mantra until he falls asleep

4. yellow spill = throw up or a particularly wet burp

5. do beans = scoop the coffee with daddy and start the grinder

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Nate doesn't like carrots.  It's one of the only vegetables he's not allergic to so we'd love for him to eat them, but they are "yucky, yucky".  Cooked, raw, with honey and butter, or in soup/stew, it doesn't matter.  He can find a tiny fragment of carrot and discard it.  Enter "Runaway Bunny", a delightful book about a baby bunny who wants to run away and whose mommy chases after him.  It is one of Nate's current top 3 favorite books, and he keeps telling me his is a "Runway Bubby" and taking off so I will chase him.  In the book, the mommy bunny lures the baby back with a carrot, so last night at dinner I asked him if he wanted to eat carrots like the Runaway Bunny.

"Yes!" he exclaimed, opening his mouth for a bite of carrot.

I put a piece on his tongue.

He spit it out.

"Yucky, Yucky" he said with indescribably adorable face.

He was quiet for just a second, plotting, and then announced with a very serious expression, "Runway Bubby like chocolate cake"

Dave and I laughed until we cried.  And yes, we gave him some chocolate brownie for dessert.