It just keeps coming...

These are quotes from lunch with Ikey one day:
That's a giant piece of pickle.
I have a napkin in my ear.
I'm a silly billy man.
I need a bandaid on the top of my head.

Aimee: Do you want a new diaper?
Ikey: No, I just want to stand here with poopy pants.

Ikey: Did you poke me with your finger?
Aimee: I'm sorry, I didn't mean to.
Ikey: But you did.

Walking up the stairs with his hands full of cars, milk cup, etc. he said, "Can you help me? I can't hold everything. "

I caught him with his hands in my purse and a mouth full of gum. He assured me, "Gum is good for me. It's good for me. "
Aimee: It tastes good, it's not really good for you.
Ikey: It tastes sweet.

I put some cheese on Beanie's tray and she looked at it and squawked. I said, "Beanie is talking to her cheese."
Ikey directed the following to the cheese on his tray, "Hey hey hey! Are you here? You're pieces of slices. I'm eating you."

Ikey noticed that I was wearing heels and he said, "You have shoes. Don't tip over in those shoes."

He was reading The Great Brain again: "Oh!" Tom said. "I lost my list."

Ikey's Book Club

Ikey has always loved books more than any other toy. He "read" the newspaper before he could stand up. He has always been willing to sit still on my lap to hear a story. He has memorized several books: Little Pea, How to Dinosaurs Eat Their Food, Reindeer Run, Duck and Goose Find a Pumpkin, How to Dinosaurs Go To Bed. This means that TB and I have read these books a million times. We've moved on to longer books because my head was going to explode if I read Little Pea one more time.
Jovie got the Ivy + Bean (Ikey and Bean?) series for Christmas and we've read two of those. We've finished Little House in the Big Woods and started Farmer Boy. We've finished The Great Brain and we're in the middle of More Adventures of the Great Brain. Come over for story time!

I asked him to read The Great Brain to me. He opened the book and said, "One day, Tom ate supper. Tom washed the dishes." That's not what the book is actually about obviously, but he got the right character name. He'd love to discuss...

Late-Breaking Funny Stuff

Ikey: I want some Buh-Zert.
Aimee: We aren't having dessert.
Ikey: Don't say 'We aren't having Buh-Zert.' Don't say that word.
Ikey was fighting me when I was trying to buckle him in the car seat.

Aimee: You need to cooperate.

Ikey: I want to stay outside.

Aimee: You need to get in your car seat and cooperate with me.

Ikey: You need to cooperate. Don't talk about me.

I tricked him into trying on a pair of flip-flops. They were attached to each other with elastic so he could take only very small steps. I told him they'd be perfect for the beach. He said, "These penguin shoes?"