You RUN everywhere often bumping into things in your path and stumbling a lot. You don't seem to mind.
You love to be chased and you run round and round our dining room table. You peek your face up and over the table and then you get down low and we peek under the table.
You are starting to learn some of the names for your play food. We found out by accident a couple weeks ago. Your dad and I were in the other room saying "cheese" to get you to smile. You ran in your room and came back with the cheese! So I asked you to "go get the banana" and low and behold you came back with a nana. We tried again with yogurt and a carrot and you got those too!!!!
You love to play with your ride-on train and your cars. And you love your little smart fire truck!
You have started to "kick" the soccer ball around the house. This amazes me that you have enough coordination to kick a ball and keep your weight on one leg.
Your favorite toy right now is definitely your drums! You push the buttons over and over again and you "rock out" to the music!
You love to eat while holding a spoon or a fork. Sometimes you will try to use it to eat but mostly it's just for hitting your bowl or tray to make noise.
Your favorite book is Brown bear, brown bear and you especially like the page with the children and the last page with all the animals.
You are much too busy to have your diaper changed lately. As soon as we lay you down to change you, you thrash your body around and flip back over. It's definitely a fight to change you! Luckily we always manage somehow ;)
You and Dylan still love to play together. But now you play real tug of war with his blanket and you let him pull so hard that you fall down laughing. You have taken a liking to Dylan's blanket and you drag it with you all around the house.
You love playing at the park and you are starting to get a bit more adventurous when it comes to climbing on the play structures. You love the swings and going down the slide.
Sleep - you are an awesome sleeper! We are so blessed. You take two naps for about an hour - hour and a half. I keep looking for signs that you'll be ready to drop one but nothing yet. We can be in the middle of playing and I'll say "are you getting tired? Do you want Ellie?" And you will point to your room or walk in there to get Ellie and get ready for your nap. At night you sleep from about 7:45-6:30/6:45. You know our routine well. Grammy says that when she had put you down to bed you point at the things she should do next like read a book or get your paci. So funny!
Eating - you are an eating machine! You eat very well and you love fruits and veggies of all kinds (just like your momma). But you are so skeptical of new foods and you still won't eat meat! Unless it's meatballs in your spaghetti.
When someone is leaving, you love to open and close the door, turn the lock and turn on and off the lights. You wave goodbye and try to blow kisses.
Your favorite word this month is mama. You use it for everything when you're happy, sad, mad or cranky (then it's mahmahmaaaaaaaah). And you grunt a LOT. You make it very clear what you want with your grunts and gestures but we are still waiting for more words to come!
You are such a sweet little dude and you love to give hugs. My favorite is when you run right at me full speed for a big hug. It melts my heart every time. This has been such a big month of changes! It's so fun to see you grow and change every day.
Xoxo
