'Tect my cereal

Cole has been very big into imperative sentences lately. I suppose that's typical for a 2-year-old, but he's come up with some good ones. "Stop, Liam" is frequent. Jeff & I have become quite certain that Liam isn't doing much of anything when we hear those two words. We'll never know for sure, of course. Cole also is fond of "By myself." Yesterday, I was helping him get dressed before Jonah's birthday party and we came to his socks. He told me he wanted to do it and then sat down with the socks. He looked at me, looked at the socks and said "Not my job. Your job." Okay then.

This morning, he was for all intents and purposes done with his cereal. I sat down next to his bowl to eat my own while he headed off to the bathroom. He looked back at me and said "'tect my cereal". (Sadie believes that all food left within her reach is fair game, so Liam frequently tells us to protect his food.) I was fairly certain Sadie wasn't interested in mushy Raisin Bran, but then Cole said what he really meant: "Don't eat my cereal, Mom."