When Children's Videos go Bad

On the way home from Rochester, we brought out our secret weapon -- a Bob the Builder DVD for Max to watch on the portable DVD player we borrowed from a friend. The first episode on the DVD was "Travis Gets Lucky", leading me to wonder from which shelf at the video store this DVD was pulled.

More Words that Max Knows

Max's language ability has really been exploding recently. I'm sure that at some point we'll stop being excited by the new words, but right now we're still constantly amazed. Here are a few words that Max has picked up recently:

• Restaurant
• Hippopotamus
• Ultimatum
• Boo-ya!
• Boom-dee-yah-dah
  

I'm especially tickled by "ultimatum". In one of his books ("Click Clack Moo: Cows that Type"), the cows go on strike. The farmer selects a "neutral third party" (a duck) to deliver an ultimatum.