Seamus Says:

Here enters the humorous beginnings of what I know will be as wonderful, delightful, silly, obnoxious, imaginative, naive, and endearing as Luke's famous Luke Says posts....our Seamus is really talking now!

Sitting around the dinner table, Seamus begins to cry and kick and holler while the rest of us are bountifully bemused.  I hand him his cup.
"Na-oh!" which, for those of you deprived of one-year-old dialogue, means No.  You never knew No had two syllables?! You learn something new every day.
I hand him his pizza.
"Na-oh!"
I hand him some lettuce and a crouton.
"Na-oh!"
I hand him a grape.
"Na-oh!"
Are you all done?
"Na-oh!"
And the Na-oh-ing devolves into crying and thrashing around in his chair.
"What in the world can he want?" I ask the room at large.
"Just ignore him," is Luke's very sensitive and tender advice.
"See if he wants an entire slice of pizza instead of cut-up bites," is Derek's suggestion.
After very short deliberation (we are after all still operating under the screaming regime of an unhappy toddler), we try the entire slice of pizza idea. 

The success of that idea was highly applauded by Linus, whose unique perspective achieved only the most positive reviews from under the table.

In frustration I wash Seamus's hands and face and release him from his high chair only to have him clambering at my leg.  We try again: boy in high chair, one of everything on his tray, juice at his elbow, and the caterwauling begins again, "Na-oh!"

Since we refuse to subject the entire family to the shouting resulting from this misunderstanding, the best idea we can come up with now is to put him on the floor and clean up dinner.  As Derek and I postpone the cleaning up a moment longer, Seamus climbs into the chair between us, at the head of the table, and consequently directly in front of the entire pizza, scooches around until he's rather comfortable and nonchalantly reaches for a slice.  "Is that what you wanted?" Derek queries, "To sit at the table like a big boy?"

Immediately, succinctly, "Yep," Seamus says.