Brotherly Love

The Art of Distraction

Zack thinks that if he yells really loud in public he can embarrass us enough to get us to stop doing what ever we're doing to him that he doesn't want us to do. For example we were walking into Costco the other night and Chrissom told Zack that he needed to hold hands in the parking lot. Of course that didn't fit Zack's style of running of way so Chrissom took hold of Zack's wrist. Zack immediately started yelling, "Ow my arms, ow my arms!" as loud as he could.
Later after eating a gourmet meal in the food court, I took Zack to the bathroom because he was showing signs of having to poo. Of course by the time I'd gift wrapped the toilet, sat him on it, and accidentally let the pee hit his pants, he firmly declared that he didn't have to poo just pee. So I took him back to Chrissom so we could finish our delicious meal. Well that didn't fit Zack's style of running away, so I held onto him while trying to feed him his hot dog. He started yelling "I poo, I poo, I poo!" We just laughed.

I Looked Out the Window and What Did I See?

Why walk around with wet pee pee pants when you can just pull them down and keep playing?

A Guide to Zackenese (That's Zack's own language)

"bum bum" = gum gum
"moop" = milk
"mm dishush" = mmm delicious
"bean bunner" = belly button
"daddy's juice" = diet coke
"back minit" = I'll be back in a minute
"dachy" = Chelsea (mommy)
"Zacky pee" = I've peed my pants and want you to change them
"can tane" = candy cane
"I did it!" = I've done something you may or may not like but I'm pretty proud of myself.
"canny" = candy
"budder" = butter
"pa pa" or "pad a pa" = spatula
"pips"= chips
"Poppit pips" = chocolate chips
"bama pitit" = Grandma Pickett
"bama Maddicks" = Grandma Maddux
"mine" = everything in the world revolves around me and therefore must belong to me.
"turch" = church
"nursee" = nursery
"pu boop" = play group
"my this" = This is mine
"bapa Maddicks" = Grandpa Maddux
"Manny" = Maddie
"jews" = shoes
"Uh oh pa da does" = Uh oh spaghetti -ohs
"towder" = shower
"Ca" = Car
"da" = yeah
"yesss!" = yes
"I get it!" = I'm going to answer the phone and talk to the person no matter who they are and I'm not going to let you have the phone. When you finally get the phone from me I'm going to throw a fit the whole time you are talking so that you'll wish that you'd just let me keep it because you won't be able to hear the person over my screaming and jumping up and down anyway. (I think that was the longest sentence I've ever written)