Jeans and Shovel

The other day I was getting Will dressed to go to playgroup. I laid out his shirt and jeans. Actually, I think that he might have picked them and laid them out. He's starting to pick out clothes, and he's doing a good job of matching things up. Anyway, after we put his shirt on, he said, "We need to put on my beads." I was thinking he was referring to his Mardi Gras beads. I'm like, "What?" Then, he said, "No. Beans." Now I'm really confused. As my mom says, "Does Will even know what a bean is?" If you don't know, Randy hates every kind of bean. Then, I realized he was saying jeans. I'm not used to him calling them that, because we always call them pants. One day I must have called them jeans, so he thinks he needs to call them that too. He picks up everything.

Randy went to Wal-mart and bought a shovel yesterday. As we went to playgroup this morning, Will asks, "Where's Dad's shooel?" It took me a couple of attempts to repeat what he was saying before I realized that he was saying shovel. It's amazing how children's vocabulary increases so dramatically at this age.