today adam surprised me! i left him for a moment to use the restroom and came back to the living room to find him up in our big chair, holding my phone saying HI HI HI! i almost died, and not because of the phone... i had no idea he could climb up on the furniture! we've seen him try, but haven't seen him accomplish this yet. i was completely shocked.

later, he came to find me in the kitchen with my blackberry against his face, again saying HI HI HI into it. hilarious kid! i'm going to have to hide that thing higher b/c who knows who he might call one of these days. we got him a toy phone for christmas and ever since he has been more and more interested in the toy phone AND the real phone.

this weekend adam also said pee-pee and is interested in what we "do" when we leave to go to the bathroom, so hopefully in a few months we can get a potty and start talking about it more. can't get here soon enough! :)

adam has also started saying a few other words, including BABY. anytime he sees a baby-- many that, to me, look just about his own age, ha!-- he points and says BABY BABY BABY. i have shown him photos of his own self on our laptop before and told him BABY. now anytime i am on the computer, he points at the screen and asks BABY?? haha. (no new babies coming to our family yet, either, people. no idea why he is suddenly into this word...!) we have been trying to get him to say ELMO-- he's obsessed with all sesame street books/characters and dances and cheers and claps anytime we put on the tv show-- but he won't say ELMO. he does say ABBY (another little character that didn't exist when i was a kid...). also, it was funny b/c in one of his sesame street books there is the alphabet. beside the O is OCTOPUS. eric asked him to say OCTOPUS and he says OCTAPAKA. he's been saying it all weekend anytime we ask for OCTOPUS, cracking us up.

when we ask he points now to belly, nose, mouth, peepee, and ears. and, he says "NOSE" (sounds more like NYA) when he points to his nose or our noses. he's also saying NITE NITE and pointing to his crib at night when we're done with our bedtime stories. and everynight, as i am putting him in his crib, he gives me a goodnight kiss. precious.