Dictionaries and Dresses

I'm wondering lately if Nathan has been reading the dictionary, because the past few weeks I've heard him spout some pretty interesting words including:

partially
comfortable
coincidence
disaster
frustrated
terrible
incident
wonderful
awkward
gorgeous (as in "Hellooo, gorgeous!"...he's such a little flirt...)
amazed
"I just memorized (realized) something..."

Maybe words like these are part of any typical four-year-old vocabulary, but I'm always so surprised when I hear him using them. I think it's because he's been my baby for so long, and I'm in denial about how old he is really getting. He also spends his days in a house of very verbal girls. I'm sure he picks up all kinds of great stuff from us.

Nathan is surrounded by sisters and girl cousins on every side (with the exception of 8-week old baby Gavin...), so he's never short on influence of the female kind. We were at my mom's last month and the girls were getting ready to put on a fashion show with their little cousin, Bella. I heard Nathan's distressed little voice calling me from the playroom, so I went to check things out. When I asked him what was wrong, he said "Mommy, I don't know which dress to wear for the fashion show!" Good thing Daddy wasn't around to hear that. I suggested that he didn't even need to be in the fashion show and that boys and dresses don't really mix, but a few minutes later he was overheard arguing with Bella over who was going to wear the pink dress. We promptly went outside to throw the "fetch" bone to Toolie and play in the dirt...

Good thing this boy is getting a brother!