Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Happy 21 Months Birthday!




wow, how much difference a another month makes!

every day you learn more words and often say things that i didn't realize you knew how to say or understood concepts of. we went out on the deck to take pictures of a slug that had come in the house. you were very interested in the slug and kept pointing to him and saying, "snake!" i don't remember ever purposefully telling you about snakes, and how they're shaped and how they move, but you must have picked it up somewhere, if you thought that the legless, long and skinny slug was a snake. it was a pretty good guess! recently you were crying, and when i came to you, you pointed to your face and sad, "i sad." you're just getting smarter every day, and it's really neat to watch you grow up.

you've also started asserting yourself more with sam. if he does something you don't like, you tell him "NO!" if he's standing up in the grocery basket, you tell him to "Sit!" sometimes you go a little overboard, and say no to him no matter what he's doing. you also assert yourself with mommy and daddy. if i'm taking your picture, and you don't want me to, you say, "No!" and shake your head or refuse to look at me. or, you make an angry face, like the one in this picture.

you've been telling us pretty often when you need to go to the bathroom, before it happens. yesterday, you went twice on the potty.

you love to draw and color, and while i know it is really early for this, you seem to be trying (pretty successfully) to copy letters and shapes that we draw for you. i'm pretty sure you're going to be just as smart as sam. i only hope you two don't plot to overthrow us by the time you're 10.

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Tomato licking runs in the family.



i was just looking at your blog and wondering what you will look like when you're a little bit older. daddy said i should look at sam's blog and see what he looked like when he was one and a half, and see how different he looked then, as compared to now.

i came across this picture of him from the summer of 2005, when he was almost your age, trying to bite into a tomato at grandma and papa's house. it reminded me of some i took of you just a couple weeks ago.

i think you enjoyed the tomato licking more than sam did, but you definitely look like brother and sister.

love, mom

Saturday, August 16, 2008

You are getting pretty silly!


you think it's very funny to play the game where one or more people copy your movements. you laughed and laughed while you and your grandma mimicked each other's dance moves or hand gestures, and you definitely got a kick out of your cousin jacob, when he got in on the fun. you always tried to slyly get grandma to pick her own nose, though, which we all thought was really funny. you might have a trace of mischief in you, trying to get out. i think we're all in trouble.
love, mom


p.s. another funny thing about you: you don't just sniff the flowers; you rub them all over your face.