I mean, of course, we think our little guy is stunning, but it’s not just his charming smile! One day, while Dylan was playing monsters (a current favorite “game”), he started shouting, “I’m going to kill you, monster”. Of course, we didn’t like the sound of that, so I explained to him that we don’t do that to anyone. It’s not nice and that’s not a nice word. Instead, he could “stun” the monster and that meant that the monster wouldn’t be able to move and therefore couldn’t try to chase us or eat us up or anything!
Luckily, he took to the idea right away and started “stunning” monsters left and right (and also telling them that he didn’t taste good and was “too salty and sour!”). Of course, Tom is often the monster from whom Dylan is trying to save us! The other night, poor tired Tom, while laying on the bed, tried encouraging Dylan to go pee pee so we could all go to sleep. Since Dylan wanted to keep playing, he came over to Tom and said, “I’m going to stun your mouth! ‘Tun! ‘Tun! ‘Tun!” then he ran back to tell me daddy-o couldn’t talk!
At that point, I wondered if it was such a good idea to teach him the word, but it was so cute and far more preferable to the alternative that I guess I’m ok with it!
