Yellow Cars

About a month ago Miles said his first three-word phrase: "Bye, yellow car!" It was on his way to swim class with Jason and since then, every yellow car or truck that he sees on the street gets an exuberant greeting. He's now moved on to including cars and trucks of other colors, but nothing quite compares to yellow cars. Last night Miles woke up at 3am and I heard him on the monitor say: "Nite-nite yellow car."

Other verbal milestones and idiosyncrasies:
* We've been practicing "Miles likes _____." Usually these sentences end with a yellow or green or blue car. But once in a while, he'll say "Like Daddy" or Parker or Mama or cheese. Yes, Miles now likes cheese!
* He's starting to talk more now that he goes to preschool three mornings a week. It's easier for him to repeat a phrase with some clarity, whereas before if you asked him to say something, he'd mostly just give you something that resembled it only in the number of syllables. I don't think he's necessarily behind in verbal skills, but I know so many kids his age who are big talkers so it felt like he was not talking enough.
* Miles loves to say Bye and Nite-nite to anyone around. At school when I pick him up, he'll say Bye! Bye! Mama's car! to every single kid in his class and to the teacher. Still very affectionate, he'll give a hug to anyone who's at eye-level when he's saying his goodbyes. After we close the door to his room at night, he yells out Nite-nite! over and over.
* Other non-car favorite words: ice cream (requested at every meal including breakfast and snack. We tell him he can only eat ice cream after dinner, but by then he usually forgets to ask again, which means I think that he likes the word more than the food), khakis (he may grow up in his father's gap-manager footsteps), cup cake (another food treat that he actually does not like to eat which I discovered after making almond-poppyseed muffins for him - I suppose he might like a real cupcake that has sugar in it, so we'll test this out on his birthday), and vacuum (still likes to make a near-daily trip to visit the vacuum in the laundry room).