I've been a horrible blogger. I know not many people read this, and that's OK, but I'm sad that I've been so horrible because I love looking back at this blog and remembering things that I may have forgotten. And let's face it, a mom who works full time and has two kids and a husband that coaches, forgets things. And here I am, with a son about to turn 7 and a baby who is 14 months old and learning new things every day, forgetting to blog the little stuff. :(
But alas, here I am. We'll try to do a quick recap of lately:
Little man continues to amaze us....
he's growing so big and is so dang smart! He's hard to keep up with,
both physically, and with all his developments!
Let's see... he has learned how to spin
around and make himself dizzy, throw things through the baby gate
down the stairs, kiss on the mouth, become very good at signing
please, more, and eat, play golf, say bath and puppy (along with voom
voom from earlier), ride in the truck cart at the store, get his own
shoes and bring them to you when you ask him to, bring you something
to eat and ask “please” so you open it, sneak into Brecken's room
to get something, and just last week took a few steps backwards on
purpose.
Making himself dizzy – he loves it!
He spins as fast as fast as he can with his feet and then laughs when
he can't walk straight. Crazy kid!
Throwing things – he'll take anything
that will fit and throw it down the stairs through the slats on the
baby gate. Balls don't fit, so he throws them over. We always have
quite the pile of toys at the bottom of the stairs! He also uses
that baby gate to stand at and cry, cry, cry when someone goes
downstairs without him. He has hit a major separation anxiety stage
and even though he can see us, he cries like we'll never ever come
back.
Kissing – he is very choosy about who
he kisses and when he wants to. It's nothing that he gives out a ton
of, unless he's feeling especially lovey and then he will kiss you
for several minutes while saying “awwwww”. We're working on
blowing kisses. He laughs when we do it but won't do it on his own –
I think it's stubbornness more than the fact that he “can't”. :)
We are impressed with his signing! He
is really good at signing please especially. Funny story – he was
trying to poke me in the eye. I told him, “Owie! Don't poke me in
the eye!” He got really mad at me and signed “please please
please please”. Haha! No, buddy, even if you ask please, you
still can't poke me in the eye!
He's obsessed with golf right now. So
much, that if he doesn't have any clubs laying around, he'll find a
wooden spoon, a stick, anything, so that he can “golf” with that.
We went to a store and he insisted on getting down, and when he was
on the ground he walked right over to a plastic set of golf clubs
that he somehow managed to see. That is now his favorite toy. He
must go EVERYWHERE with at least one golf club and a golf ball. He
knows where we keep the golf balls in the garage and goes and helps
himself while we play outside. We probably look weird going for
walks with him holding his golf club in the stroller! :)
He still loves bath time and will go in
the bathroom, stand by the tub and say, “Ba? Ba? Ba?” until we
either carry him out of the bathroom (because there's no time for a
bath) or we give him a bath. He loves baths! He loves dogs too and
quickly learned how to say “puh puh” for puppy!
He loves to eat still and we really
haven't found anything he won't eat. He quite frequently eats as
much as his big brother does. :) Pasta is one of his favorite things to eat.
He LOVES to be outside. He goes out as
often as he can to ride his little bike or golf or play in the water
table. If someone dares to go out without him, the temper comes out!
Little b is learning how to be a true
little brother, too. B-man has this toy that b LOVES but
B-man won't let him play with it very often. The other night after
B-man had gone to bed, b snuck into B-man's room so quietly
that we didn't even know he had gone in there. Pretty soon we hear
B-man shout his brother's name and heard b scream and run down
the hall as fast as he could, holding that toy for dear life. He had
snuck in to get it! We laughed so hard we had tears. Little b was
quite proud of himself for succeeding in his mission. :)
We spent a long weekend camping in
Yellowstone at the beginning of August . Both boys had an absolute blast
and were filthy dirty by the time we got home! They loved walking
around the campsite (it was large since we camped next to my aunt and
uncle and cousins and had their area to run around in too) and
playing in the dirt, and liked seeing the things there are to see
there. Even there, b was golfing with pine cones! B-man took to my cousins right away and even rode in their car for two days. He had a great time.
We had little b in to get his shots on
August 19 and he weighed in at 26 pounds! We finally found him shoes
that fit – we had to go to a child's shoe store while we were in
Denver. His feet are fat enough that normal size shoes don't fit, so
we have to get him wide width shoes. He's wearing a 5 ½ W. He
loved his new shoes and kept walking around, then stopping to look at
them, and then taking off again! He has quite a few 24 month and 2T
clothes that fit him now, too. It won't be long before he's in those
full time.
Little b STILL only has 4 teeth! And he has
still been ear infection free!!!
As for my B-man, he started 1st grade and totally loves it. He loves his teacher, he loves that he can check out two books at the library this year, he loves that he gets to come with me to school every morning. He's having a great time and is learning a lot already!
