Brody with his "Monkey Drink"

Brody kept me puzzled for hours trying to figure out what he wanted to drink.   He kept saying he wanted a "monkey drink. "  After about an hour of me trying to guess what he wanted,  I finally offered to take him to Kroger's grocery store so he could just show me what he wanted.   We were there for a long,  long time before he finally found what he was looking for.   Danimals strawberry yogurt smoothies with a monkey picture on the container,  I learned,   equals "Monkey Drink. " 

Brody has come up with many of his own terms that kept us busy for quite awhile trying to figure out what he wanted.   A "Messy Sandwich" equals an Arby's roast beef sandwich with cheddar cheese.   A "red meal" equals a Banquet frozen Salisbury steak meal.   And "red stuff" equals red Powerade Zero.   "Rectangles" equals Lipton chicken flavored noodles.   That's just a few of them.   Usually it's an ah,  hah moment when you fnally figure it out and usually it makes total sense why he calls it what he comes up with.  

One of my favorite expressions from Brody is "leave me lonely" or "I want to be lonely. "  This is Brody's way of saying,  "I want some privacy. "  I just recently explained the word privacy to him and he has started to use this term now instead.   It kinda makes me sad to not hear "I want to be lonely" anymore.   It was just so cute.