Me:  Matthew, do you want some dinner?

Matthew: Nooooo

Me:  Matthew, do you want to sit in your chair?

Matthew: Nooooo

Me:  Matthew, do you want to have chicken nuggies? (known to most as nuggets)

Matthew: Noooooooo

Me:  Matthew, do you want to have some mimi? (milk)

Matthew:  NO NO NOOOOOOOOOO

Me:  Placing sippy cup in front of his reach –  Matthew grabs it and sucks it down like he has just arrived from walking through the desert for 40 days.

This is a typical conversation that takes place in our house multiple times a day.  Matthew likes saying the word “no” so much that sometimes it’s the first thing he utters in the morning when waking up in his crib, along with a great smile.  He definitely likes saying it… however he has yet to learn the true meaning.

Perhaps we should have known early on when we tried to urge him to say “yes”.

However his vocabulary is starting to come along.  Sure he likes to say the same words over and over and over and over and over again, but we never ever get tired of it love it.  As a stereotypical boy, he likes trucks (BIG BUPS), cars (HI CAR), airplanes (A-Plane while waving his arm side to side), Motorcycles (whew whew whew while cocking his wrist back and forth),  and anything else that makes a lot of noise, including his trains (Chooo-Chooooo).  But what Matthew has really been enjoying lately is watching “Daddy video’s.”

Now before you get all creepy thinking that he is enjoying any adult films… Daddy video’s are short video clips of Matthew taken with the iPhone.  He has managed to learn how to turn the phone on, click on the photo icon, get to the video folder and sort through all of the clips again and again while adjusting the volume as loud as it will go. Matthew is slowly becoming narcissistic as he watches himself on the small screen while smiling, laughing and giggling.  Unless of course he is busy snapping selfies.

His love of books and puzzles is still viable, but the go-to now is certainly videos.  Of course, when we say no, he somehow understands what it means.  Tears, screams and utter frustration when the boy doesn’t get what he wants.  Sound familiar to any other parents out there with a toddler?  I’ll admit that I usually cave a lot quicker than Anne, as she tries to distract and offer anything and everything but the iPhone.  It’s definitely easier to give in and let him watch himself and enjoy, than listen to him cry and scream.  I do realize that he is training me and learning the ways of manipulations at an early age.  But of course when the options are a temper tantrum driving Daddy to drink, or a few minutes of watching himself run around in puddles outside… the puddles win!

I personally find it hard to say no to anything he wants.  Everytime I look at him all I want to do is make sure he is as happy as he can be. K NO W what I mean?