Transition accomplished

Wild Thing has successfully graduated to the next classroom at his child care center. Three cheers! Now, perhaps it will start to dawn on him that he's the only kid in there still wearing diapers, and the peer pressure factor will push the potty training out of second gear.

As he's made this transition, he's picked up a new locution: he's begun to use "like" to report speech. "And so Tracy [a favored teacher] was like 'let's have snack'" and that sort of thing. I'm pretty sure Overworked Spouse and I don't use this particular phraseology anymore, so I've not a clue where he picked it up.