More

Early on, when Nathan was just babbling, I thought his first word would be "ball" or "kitty" or something that he sees everyday. No. It was "MORE" and he says it four hundred million times a day. If you ask him to say "please" he just laughs, as if to say "why would I want to try to say another word when you know exactly what I want already??"

He points to a bag of candy, or chips and says "MORE". He holds out his plate at dinner, towards the bowl of green beans and says "MORE". He'll put your hand on a book and point to your mouth and say "MORE" (he wants you to read to him). He'll give you an airplane or truck, and getsanother for himself and say "MORE" (he wants to play together). Sometimes we think he just says "MORE" to see what he can get.

Our suspicsions were confirmed the other day, when he held out free-sample packets of Tide and said "MORE". After him persisting for half an hour, I was tempted to open a packet and show him he really didn't want what was inside :)