Jude has a stuffy nose. I gave him a flower to smell and he pointed to his nose and said, "Doesn't work. Doesn't work, Mommy."

The sound of Jude watching The Lion King:
"Cat! Cat! Other cat!"

Reading National Geographic Kids:
Me: "...where he spotted a type of spider monkey previously thought to be extinct."
Ezra: Yuck. P.U.
Me: What? Because I said "extinct"?
Ezra: Yeah.
Me: "Extinct" is when a kind of animal has all died out, like the dinosaurs went extinct a long time ago.
Ezra: But if something died a long time ago, sometimes they stink.

Ezra: I need help wiping!
Jude: Okay, I be right there!

Jude used to wake up in the middle of night crying for me, then a month ago he started hollering "MOM-MAAAY!", then last night I woke up to him calling, "Mommy, I want to nurse please."

So no progress on the weaning front, but the breastmilk does seem to be improving his vocabulary.

Ezra and Jude were watching Sesame Street. One show was ending and I handed Ezra the remote to start the next one and went back to the next room to read. After a couple minutes, I noticed it was still silent in there, so I went to check, and Ezra had accidentally turned the Roku off and they were watching it slowly start back up. I said, "What happened?" and Jude said, "Brother need help."

Every time in the last couple days that I tell Jude it's time to do something, he holds up four little fingers and says, "FOUR minutes."

Ezra: Mommy, French is a language?
Me: Yeah. You want to hear somebody speaking in French? [start typing in youtube.com]
Ezra: Actually, I speak French.

Last night, I gave Ezra a glass of milk and he said, "Mmm! Milk is my favorite drink. And you know what my favorite animal is?...Cows!" I said, "You know that's soymilk, right?"

New friend: What's your name?
Ezra: Ezra, I guess.

I just lit a 3-wick citronella candle outside and Jude asked, "Happy cake?," which is his word for birthday.

Ezra: Stop talking! You're getting on my nervous.

I was reading the boys a book, and they were sitting on either side of me. Jude said, "Where brudder?...DERE! Dere brudder!...Tickle brudder!" and wiggled his little fingers. I said, "Ha! If you want to tickle him, you'll have to get closer than--" and Jude launched himself across my lap and slammed Ezra flat on his back. They both cracked up and I said, "That wasn't a tickle, that was a tackle!"

Jude: Fae part day? Fae part day, park.
Me: Your favorite part of the day was the park?
Jude: Yesth.
Meagan: Aww!
Me: Meagan doesn't know that you say that everyday, whether we went to the park or not. I think my favorite part of the day was going to the pool
Jude: Part day, park, part day, pool.
Meagan: My favorite part was going to the pool too. That was fun.
Jude: Part day, fun.

Jude: Monkeys jumpin' bed! Doc'ah say, "NOOO!"

Ezra: Mama, will you play with me?
Lauren: Okay.
Ezra: Mama, will you pretend to be Jude? I like to play with Jude. He walks like this [waddle, waddle] and he talks like this: "Ba ba ba ba."