Monday, February 27, 2012
Addendum
So I wrote this the day after the last post but didn't get it uploaded. Since then Andrew has added another one or two words daily... list is too long to include!
Well I knew I’d forgotten a few words that Andrew has been
saying… here are the ones he casually used this morning that I missed on the
earlier list, lol
yi-yah (lion)
rah (roar)
yahya (jacket)
shuh (shirt)
patz (pants)
soh/shoh
(sock)
shu/sho (shoe)
ha (hat)
dis (this, while pointing)
cohloh (color –
referring to crayons usually)
pleh (play/get down from high chair)
wah (wall)
foh (phone, although when it rings he announces that it’s “Tahddy!!!” lol)
phoo
(food)
yah (ice)
He ate fish sticks for the first time last night and loved
them! He especially enjoyed dipping them
in cocktail sauce :P YAY I have
another protein he’ll eat ;) AND he ate
an entire container of baby food squash at dinner last night AND at lunch
today! This sounds a lot less exciting
when I type it than how it felt when he actually ate them. Hmm.
How did James and I birth a picky eater?!?
He also loves water.
Bath time is a super fun activity, as is watching it rain out the
window, walking to another window to see the rain on the other side of the
house, drinking water (with ice like Daddy!) out of his new car cup,
identifying water in the sink, toilet, washing machine, or on TV or in
pictures. Yay water.
This morning he sat contently on his bean bag (thanks, Uncle
George and Aunt Jen!) and watched ½ of a Baby Einstein video while I got up in
the attic. We’re definitely not letting
him watch tv on a regular basis, but we also don’t want to make it such a
special thing that he obsesses over it.
He’s seen two videos so far – the first is an introduction to the
instruments in an orchestra (of course!) which is good but doesn’t hold his
attention too long (which is also good – I like that he goes to play after
about 7 or 8 minutes and ignores it).
The second is one I picked up for $1 at the most recent baby sale and
it’s baby’s first places (around down, at home, at the park, etc.) and it has
both an adult woman and two children demonstrating the sign language words for
each place/thing. He LOVES it. Especially the puppets’ play – totally cracks
up J It’s so sweet to watch and I’m learning the
signs, too!
And with that cuteness, we’re off to visit our sweet friends
who are moving to Connecticut :(
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
How long has it been...
Oh sweet Andrew, it's been too long since I've journaled about all the wonderful and crazy things you're doing. The little voice in the back of my head tells me that your future brothers and sisters (whenever God sends them) will have even less photo and written documentation of their growing up years, but for now I have relatively little excuse :)
You finally started walking! We're not sure of how old you were, to be honest. Because, you see, I was all proud to tell your Bible study leader that you learned to walk during the week that we were out sick and her response was "Um, what do you mean?" You had been walking at BSF for a MONTH (at least) before you started walking (without hanging on to anything) anywhere else. In fact, it was only on Wednesdays - not even on Tuesdays when we go for my leaders' meeting! Not at home, at church, friends' houses... nowhere else! You crazy kid - you were holding out on us! Anyway, now you're starting to pick up speed and almost never crawl anywhere. You're getting really good at catching your balance and squatting to pick something up off the floor. And you LOVE walking down the hallway to find Daddy or me or to go sit in your room to wait for us to change your diaper :) We're starting to lose things as you carry and deposit them in new locations...
You love anything that moves. Cars are the big obsession and trash trucks are the current favorite in that genre, although seeing the planes fly over our house is a delight as well. You thought you had died and gone to Heaven when we happened to catch the trash men coming around our corner when we took the can to the street last week. The trash men were so friendly - the driver waved to you and the man on the back was so polite and waved and showed you how the truck smashes the trash as he drove away from our house. You said "Tash Tuck" about a million times the rest of that day! I found a little toy trash truck for you at a church baby sale last weekend and it's been going everywhere with you since then :) The dump truck I also got is on stand by for any friend who comes to play so you can be sure to have the trash truck, lol.
You have learned how to give kisses. They're open mouth and mostly teeth but you firmly plant them on my cheek! Actually, you usually just offer your cheek to me for me to kiss you , but occasionally I get one of yours!
Mrs. Paula gave you "Hop On Pop" last week and you've been walking around saying "Pop!" It's super cute! I've been trying to get you to say "Poppy" but so far it hasn't worked. Tonight Daddy read you the book while you sat on his chest - I thought it was clever that you were "on 'Pop'" while reading "Hop On Pop." Haha! You two are such a sweet part of my life!
You can point to all of your grandparents and Great Aunt Cathi in your photo book when I name them.
You are enjoying learning how to use a fork and spoon. I try to let you practice on days we don't have anywhere to go in the morning... usually this activity ends in bath time :) (At least spoon practice - fork you're pretty good with) However you're still pretty picky with what you'll eat. Yesterday we had hot dogs for the first time since you've been born and when I introduced them to you your first response was "vufh vufh!" Hmm... not really dogs, kid. You liked it as a medium for ketchup :) Otherwise I can always count on you eating a full cup of yogurt, fruit (especially grapes or berries), cereal (Kix are the current favorite - little balls!), beans (from taco soup are the best), cheddar cheese, strawberry-banana granola bars, and crackers. We've just learned that you are very compliant with eating vegetables if we alternate bites with yogurt. (Daddy triumphs on that discovery!)
By far your favorite food is crackers. So much so that I have to make you wait for Daddy to get home to have more most days. They're a great tool to keep you awake in the car when we're running late for your nap time, though! I just bought you some new 'big boy' sippy cups (the lid is hard plastic instead of a soft nipple-like plastic) with Lightening McQueen on them - you are SO EXCITED that they have a car on them and will even drink cow's milk from them! This is an exciting new development in the drinking-milk-other-than-breastmilk department :)
You love hats. And anything you can put on your head as a hat. Including food bowls. We're trying to train you out of that one :) It sure is cute, though, when you pick up a book and put it on your head and say "Haah!"
You've developed a new facial expression. When you don't like what I'm doing (usually closing the baby gate) you try to make an upset face and fuss but it just looks and sounds funny. I wish I could get it on video... You also do a modified version of this minus the fussing when I come pick you up from Bible study. It's as though you want to show something on your face and you're not quite sure what to do at this point.
I keep forgetting to write down words you say and you keep adding new ones. Here's my best effort to catalog the current vocab list:
Mama
Tahddy
bah (ball, bath, granola bar)
bah bah (Bible, butterfly, baby)
car (applied to any vehicle as well as your pillow with cars on the pillowcase)
fhava (water)
flaohva (flower)
nana ("no no" and banana)
pahboo (balloon)
pboo (spoon)
cahgah (cracker)
chzzz (cheese)
tash tuck (trash truck - usually you only say 'trash')
pah or pahp (pop)
frah (frog)
wahgah (wagon - only said this a few times)
You're also getting really good at doing animal sounds. Daddy sings the Rooster Song at bedtime most nights and you love to contribute the animals' voice :)
dog: vuhf
cat: aaahhhh! (voice inflection here is key!)
cow: boo
sheep: baah
donkey: hah haaa
bunny: (crinkle nose)
Daddy is your new favorite person - you talk about him all day long and LOVE it when he comes home to see you! We have the following conversation pretty much verbatim about 10 times per day:
"Mama, Mama!"
"Yes, Andrew."
"Tahddy?"
"Daddy is at work."
"Car."
"Yes, Daddy drove the yellow car to work. Now he's inside teaching math."
"Car."
"Yes, he'll drive the car to come back home for dinner."
"Tahddy." (with a BIG smile)
"I love Daddy, too! I like it when he comes home :)"
You understand so much of what is going on around you and what we say it's really remarkable. You obey instructions very well and respond well when we have to redirect or reprimand your disobedience. You love playing with your cars, riding your rocking horse, reading books, driving the Little People cart with the donkey, doing puzzles (especially the simple shape one and the one with vehicle noises that Grandma gave you for Christmas), rocking in your rocking chair (and you're doing SO well with sitting correctly!), looking at photos of Mama and Daddy, going for walks in your stroller, chasing balls, and reading the Bible. You do really well tidying up your toys as long as one of us is helping you, and if we tell you to go somewhere you're great at going there (high chair for food, couch to read a book, bedroom for a diaper/to look out the windows, etc). You also really enjoy trying to find me and Daddy when we go to the bathroom, lol, and finding Daddy's shoes and identifying them as his. And his water cups. And anything else you can identify as Daddy's :)
When you hear the garage door open your whole face lights up, your eyes sparkle, and you almost shout "Tahddy!!!!"
Sometimes when Daddy comes home he lets you sit on his lap in the yellow car. You talk about this for the rest of the day and usually the whole next day :) When we drove you around the block you talked about it for a week.
Your favorite books are the Jesus Storybook Bible (we're learning to turn pages gently so no more of them rip), Baa Baa Black Sheep, I Am A Bunny, Where Is Baby's Birthday Cake, Hop On Pop, Goodnight Moon, Richard Scarry's Cars from A to Z, and of course your Big Truck Book (particularly the pages with the backhoe and the trash trucks on them)
Last night you accidentally called Grandma. You managed to unlock the keypad on my phone and pressed her speed dial number. We left her a message and she saved it on her phone so she can listen to it whenever she wants since she can hear you in the background of me explaining that you called her :)
We did a special craft for Valentine's Day. I can't write about it right now, though, because the recipients haven't received them yet (they're in the mail) and I don't want to spoil the surprise.
Speaking of mail ... you love seeing the mail truck and mail man, too :) Today we got to talk to him and look inside his truck while he found our mail for us. We have a very nice mail man!
I love you, my sweet, favorite first son! What a delight you are to watch learn new things and explore. We are so thankful that God gave you to us!
You finally started walking! We're not sure of how old you were, to be honest. Because, you see, I was all proud to tell your Bible study leader that you learned to walk during the week that we were out sick and her response was "Um, what do you mean?" You had been walking at BSF for a MONTH (at least) before you started walking (without hanging on to anything) anywhere else. In fact, it was only on Wednesdays - not even on Tuesdays when we go for my leaders' meeting! Not at home, at church, friends' houses... nowhere else! You crazy kid - you were holding out on us! Anyway, now you're starting to pick up speed and almost never crawl anywhere. You're getting really good at catching your balance and squatting to pick something up off the floor. And you LOVE walking down the hallway to find Daddy or me or to go sit in your room to wait for us to change your diaper :) We're starting to lose things as you carry and deposit them in new locations...
You love anything that moves. Cars are the big obsession and trash trucks are the current favorite in that genre, although seeing the planes fly over our house is a delight as well. You thought you had died and gone to Heaven when we happened to catch the trash men coming around our corner when we took the can to the street last week. The trash men were so friendly - the driver waved to you and the man on the back was so polite and waved and showed you how the truck smashes the trash as he drove away from our house. You said "Tash Tuck" about a million times the rest of that day! I found a little toy trash truck for you at a church baby sale last weekend and it's been going everywhere with you since then :) The dump truck I also got is on stand by for any friend who comes to play so you can be sure to have the trash truck, lol.
You have learned how to give kisses. They're open mouth and mostly teeth but you firmly plant them on my cheek! Actually, you usually just offer your cheek to me for me to kiss you , but occasionally I get one of yours!
Mrs. Paula gave you "Hop On Pop" last week and you've been walking around saying "Pop!" It's super cute! I've been trying to get you to say "Poppy" but so far it hasn't worked. Tonight Daddy read you the book while you sat on his chest - I thought it was clever that you were "on 'Pop'" while reading "Hop On Pop." Haha! You two are such a sweet part of my life!
You can point to all of your grandparents and Great Aunt Cathi in your photo book when I name them.
You are enjoying learning how to use a fork and spoon. I try to let you practice on days we don't have anywhere to go in the morning... usually this activity ends in bath time :) (At least spoon practice - fork you're pretty good with) However you're still pretty picky with what you'll eat. Yesterday we had hot dogs for the first time since you've been born and when I introduced them to you your first response was "vufh vufh!" Hmm... not really dogs, kid. You liked it as a medium for ketchup :) Otherwise I can always count on you eating a full cup of yogurt, fruit (especially grapes or berries), cereal (Kix are the current favorite - little balls!), beans (from taco soup are the best), cheddar cheese, strawberry-banana granola bars, and crackers. We've just learned that you are very compliant with eating vegetables if we alternate bites with yogurt. (Daddy triumphs on that discovery!)
By far your favorite food is crackers. So much so that I have to make you wait for Daddy to get home to have more most days. They're a great tool to keep you awake in the car when we're running late for your nap time, though! I just bought you some new 'big boy' sippy cups (the lid is hard plastic instead of a soft nipple-like plastic) with Lightening McQueen on them - you are SO EXCITED that they have a car on them and will even drink cow's milk from them! This is an exciting new development in the drinking-milk-other-than-breastmilk department :)
You love hats. And anything you can put on your head as a hat. Including food bowls. We're trying to train you out of that one :) It sure is cute, though, when you pick up a book and put it on your head and say "Haah!"
You've developed a new facial expression. When you don't like what I'm doing (usually closing the baby gate) you try to make an upset face and fuss but it just looks and sounds funny. I wish I could get it on video... You also do a modified version of this minus the fussing when I come pick you up from Bible study. It's as though you want to show something on your face and you're not quite sure what to do at this point.
I keep forgetting to write down words you say and you keep adding new ones. Here's my best effort to catalog the current vocab list:
Mama
Tahddy
bah (ball, bath, granola bar)
bah bah (Bible, butterfly, baby)
car (applied to any vehicle as well as your pillow with cars on the pillowcase)
fhava (water)
flaohva (flower)
nana ("no no" and banana)
pahboo (balloon)
pboo (spoon)
cahgah (cracker)
chzzz (cheese)
tash tuck (trash truck - usually you only say 'trash')
pah or pahp (pop)
frah (frog)
wahgah (wagon - only said this a few times)
You're also getting really good at doing animal sounds. Daddy sings the Rooster Song at bedtime most nights and you love to contribute the animals' voice :)
dog: vuhf
cat: aaahhhh! (voice inflection here is key!)
cow: boo
sheep: baah
donkey: hah haaa
bunny: (crinkle nose)
Daddy is your new favorite person - you talk about him all day long and LOVE it when he comes home to see you! We have the following conversation pretty much verbatim about 10 times per day:
"Mama, Mama!"
"Yes, Andrew."
"Tahddy?"
"Daddy is at work."
"Car."
"Yes, Daddy drove the yellow car to work. Now he's inside teaching math."
"Car."
"Yes, he'll drive the car to come back home for dinner."
"Tahddy." (with a BIG smile)
"I love Daddy, too! I like it when he comes home :)"
You understand so much of what is going on around you and what we say it's really remarkable. You obey instructions very well and respond well when we have to redirect or reprimand your disobedience. You love playing with your cars, riding your rocking horse, reading books, driving the Little People cart with the donkey, doing puzzles (especially the simple shape one and the one with vehicle noises that Grandma gave you for Christmas), rocking in your rocking chair (and you're doing SO well with sitting correctly!), looking at photos of Mama and Daddy, going for walks in your stroller, chasing balls, and reading the Bible. You do really well tidying up your toys as long as one of us is helping you, and if we tell you to go somewhere you're great at going there (high chair for food, couch to read a book, bedroom for a diaper/to look out the windows, etc). You also really enjoy trying to find me and Daddy when we go to the bathroom, lol, and finding Daddy's shoes and identifying them as his. And his water cups. And anything else you can identify as Daddy's :)
When you hear the garage door open your whole face lights up, your eyes sparkle, and you almost shout "Tahddy!!!!"
Sometimes when Daddy comes home he lets you sit on his lap in the yellow car. You talk about this for the rest of the day and usually the whole next day :) When we drove you around the block you talked about it for a week.
Your favorite books are the Jesus Storybook Bible (we're learning to turn pages gently so no more of them rip), Baa Baa Black Sheep, I Am A Bunny, Where Is Baby's Birthday Cake, Hop On Pop, Goodnight Moon, Richard Scarry's Cars from A to Z, and of course your Big Truck Book (particularly the pages with the backhoe and the trash trucks on them)
Last night you accidentally called Grandma. You managed to unlock the keypad on my phone and pressed her speed dial number. We left her a message and she saved it on her phone so she can listen to it whenever she wants since she can hear you in the background of me explaining that you called her :)
We did a special craft for Valentine's Day. I can't write about it right now, though, because the recipients haven't received them yet (they're in the mail) and I don't want to spoil the surprise.
Speaking of mail ... you love seeing the mail truck and mail man, too :) Today we got to talk to him and look inside his truck while he found our mail for us. We have a very nice mail man!
I love you, my sweet, favorite first son! What a delight you are to watch learn new things and explore. We are so thankful that God gave you to us!
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