Lucaspeak

I scrolled back through my old posts and realized that I'm a bit heavy on the "things going on on TV/print/and Internets" and light on "things going on with me and mine." So I recorded a conversation between me and the kid yesterday, on the drive home from work/daycare:

Lucas: "Hi Daddy!"

Jay: "Hi Lucas!"

L: "Hi Daddy!"

J: "Hi Lucas!"

L: "Daddy!"

J: "Hi Lucas."

L: "Oh."

(Brief pause.)

L: "Hi Daddycar!"

J: "Do you like Daddy's car?"

L: "Oh!"

(A few minutes later...)

L: "Bye bye ton! Bye bye ton!"

J: "Oh, the sun's not gone yet - it's just behind the tr..."

L: "HI TON! HI TON!"

J: "Yeah! There's the sun - see it just went behind a tree and now it's..."

L: "Bye bye ton! Bye ton! Oh noooo!"

J: "Oh, it's OK, see, it just went behind that building an..."

L: "HI TON! HI TON!"

(A few minutes after that...)

L: "Wo-dah? Wo-dah? Pees?"

J: "Do you want some water? Here's your water..."

L: "No."

J: "Ok, guess you don't want any wat..."

L: "Wo-dah? Pees?"

J: "Ok, here's your wa..."

L: "No."

J: "Ok, no water then."

L: "Appa jew?"

J: "Nope, don't have any apple juice in the car."

L: "Oh. Peesa?"

J: "Tell ya what - we'll have pizza for dinner."

L: "Oh."

(Sometime following...)

L: "OBBLEGAGA! OBBLEGAGA!" (this is a real word, and it means...)

J: "Where's the helicopter? Oh, I see them! How many helicopters are there?"

L: (pauses) "TWO OBBLEGAGA! TWO OBBLEGAGA!"

J: "Yay! Two helicopters. That's right!"

L: "Two. Obblegaga. Meow! Meow! Meow! Meow!"

He is, after all, just shy of two.

UPDATED 1/27/06 1:41 PM PST: And OF COURSE, no more than ten minutes after I post this, I get a call from Beth. She took Lucas to the Ear/Nose/Throat Specialist at the behest of our ped. Turns out Lucas has to have tubes put in his ears; he's had an ongoing ear infection for a few weeks. Needless to say, that sucks. No damage to his hearing; the doc says that things probably sound a bit muffled to him (the tubes will fix that), which immediately got me wondering if his repeating "Hi Daddy" was because he couldn't hear me. I don't think that's the case - the kid loves to talk, and his vocabulary has really shot up considerably over the past few weeks. Still - ugh.