Forts and Toddler Tourettes

Today Dexter and I built our first "fort" from a sheet and baby blankets strung between two chairs.  It was lots of fun for both of us.  Dexter was just in awe when he got underneath and kept trying to re-arrange the blankets on the side.  We even put Maxwell inside too, until Dexter felt like it was time to destroy the fort by jumping on it...that's about how the whole day went.  Fun activity for 5-10min, then destruction of said activity.

Also, we have decided Dexter has created his own form of curse words.  Now, to be clear, Sander and I do not curse around him and neither do we use "ok" curse words around him.  Nope.  Nada.  But for awhile now he would yell "chaka!" or "rock on!" in a very curt, angry way, usually when I said something he didn't like.  It has only gotten worse, with a new addition of "tiku!" to the vocabulary.  I know it sounds crazy, but I have begun to punish him when he says these nonsense words.  He is responding ok...instead of yelling "chaka" he is just making up new ones and looking at me like, "ok, I know I can't say 'chaka', but can I say "X".  Oh gosh.  Guess this is why curse words aren't so much what you say as the heart behind it...