New Discoveries

I Love You Son. Well as I mentioned before, there would be gaps before updates. The fact that I'm continuing this says a lot for me. You have been maturing. You are more aware of your sense of self these days and your balance is excellent. You are becoming a husky boy, getting heavier by the day, taller by the day, and you are using logic and reason to make decisions. You are learning boundaries and consequences of your actions - sometimes.

You have taken to smacking your Mom and I in the face, only as a form of expression, but you catch yourself and stop. You've been sticking your right index finger into my left eye and then keep it there. You make attempts to feed me air and my reply is "Yuck", then I make as if I'm going to drop you, which you find humorous. Your words right now are "Uh-oh-oh, oh", "T", and of course "Dad", and on inconsistent occasions "Mom".

You have taken to playing with cars and vehicles of sorts. In fact today, you were playing on the window sill with your cars and took a brief break to get a Cheerio from the oval glass coffee table. You returned with a single Cheerio and proceeded to run your cars around it. In an attempt to move it over, it stuck to the tip of your finger, as it has in the past which you find an amusing way to eat your Cheerios, and then ate it. You returned to the coffee table to continue sticking more cheerios to the tip of your index fingers and eat them when you had dropped one on the carpet on your way back to the window sill. It was my absolute delight to see your thought process in action here. You picked up the Cheerio, looked around for a solid place to lay the Cheerio down upon so you could re-stick it to your finger and considered the nearest object to you, which was the pellet stove base, but I could tell you thought it to be too bumpy, so then you turned back to the glass coffee table, placed it down, then stuck it on your finger tip and into your pie trap.

I was very proud to have witnessed that event. You are becoming more and more independent and I am proud to see you grow. I know you're only 21 months now, but you amaze me daily.

You enjoy sitting and turning the pages of your books, quietly. You especially enjoy the Alphabet Slide-show Disks that I made for you that have both Mom and I recorded on as we recite the ABC's. You Enjoy music and you have a great little grove where you shake your hips side to side. Winter is nearing its end and Spring is in the air. Pretty soon we'll be able to go outside more and it will be a completely new adventure for you. I'll keep you posted!!