It's all in the presentation

So this morning I noticed that Henry's nails were way too long and way too dirty so I went to get his nail clippers. I came back downstairs and announced that it was time to clip his nails.

Henry - "I don't want you to cut my nails"
Mom - "Girls really like boys with short, clean nails"
Henry - "Do really pretty girls like cut nails?"
Mom - "Yes, especially the pretty girls"

So he climbed in my lap and let me cut them. Why didn't I think of this strategy sooner?

Tales from the crib

So last night I noticed a bunch of red lights on Henry's monitor right after he went to bed so I turned on the volume to hear what he was saying and it was so cute!

First he was singing the clean up song (or his version of it)
"clean up clean up" "time to clean up clean up" (think he's trying to tell me something??)

Then he listed off everyone he could think of and whether they were going. Not sure where we were all going but it went something like this:
"Mama going?"
"Dada going?"
"Granpa?"
"Unka Sam?"
"Aka going?"
"Gramma?"

And he ended with a nice round of his new favorite song, "Happy Birthday to Henry" (those are the only words you just sing and repeat)

And then he went to sleep.