Oh My Adorable Wilder-beast,
How I love you. I am SO happy when you smile that scrunched up cheeky smile that you flash when you know you have done something funny! You are so perceptive about things like that, and are very aware of how your actions affect others. You are such a smart boy already!
You started swimming lessons with Lulu at Foss Swim School over the winter and did a wonderful job. You were a superstar in the class and often followed the teacher's direction better than all the others. You did your 'monkey cheeks' and blew bubbles and used your feet to kick and hands to move water. You can follow all the movements from "The Wheels on the Bus"-all the verses!
You are such a large motor skills boy! You are running with wild abandon, your technique makes daddy and I laugh because you move your arms in this cute and very silly up and down motion along with your feet while you run-it has to be seen to be believed:) It is so insanely precious, just like you. You also love to climb on anything and everything, the toy box to see out the window, the kitchen table, the dining room chairs, our bed, Lulu's bed, the toilet....you can keep up with kids much older than you. It's so sweet to see you so independent now. But what I love is that you always come running back into my arms for a hug- that melts my heart and makes everything in my world good.
Did I mention you are talking??!? You are chatting up a storm, and you are even better able to communicate your feelings through verbal cues other than words too. You are quick to get frustrated these days because you are finally standing up for yourself when your big sister decides that she wants to play with the toy you have. You are good at telling her your feelings even if you don't quite have the words yet. You cry, squeal, and occasionally try to hit-so we are working on that. I know the frustration will quell once you have the communication skills but until the words come, I'm okay with you using your emotions to tell the world how you feel. So far here are the words you can say, in the order that you learned to say them:
mama
dada
bubble
ka-ka (cracker/cookie/food)
spunbah or spunbob (Spongebob Squarepants)
nana
beh-bir (Big Bird)
din (drink)
JUICE! (another word for a non-clear colored drink, only offered with an excited tone)
papa
Doooaaa (Dora)
and possibly aipane (airplane-though it may have been a fluke, we have only heard it once)
You also LOVE to sing, sometimes you offer this cute high pitched "oooohhh" when you hear us sing, and sometimes you just go "ahhhhhhh!!!!" in whatever pitch you feel like at the moment. If anyone ever hears you just yelling for no reason, it's likely that you saw a commercial or something on TV with someone singing and just decided to sing along. I LOVE to hear you sing, honestly its something that makes me swell with pride because you are so happy when you sing and you are only what, like, maybe 15 months old?!? I wonder if it will end up being a passion for you like it was for me? Just today I was singing a Beyonce song called "All the Single Ladies, Put a Ring on it" and you were mimicking me with the "oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh" part and daddy and I were laughing SO hard!
I think it was Lulu that taught you to sing, since she loves to sing and sings to you often! It seems that anything she does these days you are sure to do, you have become quite the copycat of your big sister. Sometimes this leaves us laughing with tears of happiness pouring down our faces (like when you sing together) and sometimes it leaves me wincing (like when you both decide to make a game of screaming and yelling the same syllables). When she does any type of dance or movement, you are sure to be there trying to do it a few seconds later. It is SO sweet to see the bond you two have, it's truly one of the things in my life I am proudest of, aside from simply bringing you both into the world. I hope so desperately that you grow up to be friends and stay close. You have each other in this world and my hope is that you stand together always. So copy away my cute little guy, just try to avoid copying the terrible two behavior:)
What craziness we have endured recently! After almost 3 weeks of constant sickness (runny noses, pink eye, coughing, colds) you are feeling better but still have some lingering issues. Your noses still runs and you are having massive diarrhea that has had us very concerned the last few days. Up until today you have barely had a bite to eat, in fact, two days ago you turned away everything I offered and were only willing to eat one banana the whole day! We have been giving you Pedialite to keep you hydrated and lots of extra love. As much as my heart is wrenched when you are sick, there is a part of me that loves when you need me so much. The last few months have been all about you becoming mobile and independent. There is nothing more enjoyable to me than when you run to me from across the room (with your little hands pumping up and down alternately!) and throwing yourself on me in a huge hug. Since you haven't been feeling well the last few weeks, you have spent a LOT of time laying on my shoulder. As challenging as it can be to accomplish anything with a little boy that whines when put down, I absolutely love it and would never turn you away. In fact, I give up trying to do anything when you want to cuddle with me and lay on me, I'd rather just enjoy that time with you. Sometimes after you have laid with your head on my shoulders for a long time, to the point where I have to wonder if you are still awake, your little head will pop up and you will put your hands around my head and give me the bigges "m-wah!" kiss right on my lips. Its your way of communicating to me that you love me and since you initiate those kisses, they mean more to me than you can ever EVER know.
You have finally *chosen* something that you love and it has ended up being Elmo and Spongebob Squarepants. You also love the show Yo Gabba Gabba! along with Lulu. We ended up taking you both to Sesame Street Live! a few months ago and we took you to Yo Gabba Gabba! Live this last weekend, you were in heaven both times-totally mesmerized:) Daddy and I love opportunities to make you guys feel special and loved. I am so thankful that we have the means to do fun things like that as a family, we are very blessed-always remember that.
Tonight we went out as a family to run errands. We started out walking through Toys R Us to find you an Easter present. You excitedly shouted "Doa" every time you saw Dora and "Spabob" everytime you saw Spongebob Squarepants-both of which are very popular right now so you saw them often. You are so fun! Then we went to the Twins Pro Shop so daddy could use the gift card he won to buy you a Twins hat...something he has been wanting to do for a long time. You grew out of your infant sized one so he has wanted to get you a bigger one for months. Then we went to dinner at Eddingtons where you dipped your bread sticks in my cheese soup and attempted to use a spoon to get soup to your mouth. It was quite a mess, and you were very loud-embarrassingly loud and frustrated at first because you were hungry, all the people in the restaurant were staring at us, but once you calmed down and got some food in your tummy it turned into a fun dinner. Daddy even remarked on how cool it was to see you so casually reach into a bag to grab something, since when you were little you had a real issue with pulling things out of bags. You would stick your hand into a bag, but you never quite figured out how to or cared to pull whatever it was out of the bag-silly boy-it was just one of your quirks:)
Wild Man, I love you so completely. I'm off to bed now because it is late, and the whole time I fall asleep I will secretly be hoping that at some point overnight you wake up so you can sleep in bed with me and cuddle. You are growing so fast and my night time cuddling is on borrowed time so I relish it every chance I get:) I love you more than life my precious son.
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