18 months, oh yeah!

Peanut is growing up! In the last few weeks he's started using more words (like banana, dogeeee, cheese and teeth) and being more sociable in general - coming up to me to give me hugs and kisses. Alas he's actively cutting one tooth and he has two molars threatening, so he's a bit cranky and not sleeping well.

He's really great at buckling, doing other fine motor tasks and pretend play. He yells for 'mama' more instead of just crying. We've got Aunt K's wedding coming up and he's going to be the ring bearer. Busy month of April!

Buckles and Zippers

Peanut LOVES buckles and zippers. He can buckle things up and unzip them, then he runs to me, grabs my finger, and drags me to whatever it is so I can unbuckle or rezip it. Loads of fun, over and over and over and over again ;) Here's video though!




A short update, but an update no less!

February

Well, this is my third time in the last month being sick. The boys haven't been hit too hard fortunately. Peanut can say mama dada kitty hi good and he rotates on some animal sounds. He knows where his head, eyes, nose, mouth, tummy and feet are. He like to imagine feeding Sophie milk and cooking with me. He still loves accessories, and he is huge into climbing. He gives me hugs and kisses, loves clapping games and sneaking into the fridge.

Time to teach him to brush my hair! Gotta be creative while sick!

The Weather Outside is Frightful...

Or at least too cold to go outside and play. However it'll be warming up here again soon! 20 degrees today, maybe I'll take him out with me to get the mail. 20 is kind of my tipping point though. Last winter it was 40, what with him being all tiny. At 40ish degrees I'd bundle him up in a snowsuit, strap him to me in the moby wrap, and we'd walk around the block. If grandma was over, we'd just alternate carrying him. But being a big boy now, bipedal and a veritable heat production plant, I'd bundle him up and let him play outside at say 25 degrees, for awhile at least.

He was just playing next to me, he loves his peg toys. But now he's running in circles. Dining room -> Living Room -> Kitchen -> Dining room. He loves running and hopping in circles. Oh, now he found his popcorn popper. He still won't use it correctly, but he loves to be chased by it. Ok, that's enough of the popcorn popper, now he's being silent out of sight.... and around the bend he comes, no worse for wear it appears.

He's been sleeping better overnight in general, however he's been waking up after 9 hours and not wanting to go back to sleep. ~.~;; I'm pretty sure something is wrong with him, I'm hoping it just something simple like a tooth, but his bum is so sore, and nothing we put on it seems to protect it. It'll get a bit better overnight, soaking up soothing stuff, but by evening he's back to being nervous about even sitting in the water. I've been meaning to buy this and try it for awhile, Coconut Oil (http://www.amazon.com/Natures-Way-Organic-Virgin-Coconut/dp/B003B3OOPA) however I keep getting distracted *buys it now* to try on it. Keeping my fingers crossed that if not this, then the doctor will be able to figure something out tomorrow at his 15 month appointment.

Sighs, and he's trying his best to break into the cabinet under the sink. Distraction time!

Happy Fifteen Months Peanut!

Ahh, of course I didn't get around to posting for forever. It's my MO. Of course, even if I don't post here, there may be updated videos on my youtube page - http://www.youtube.com/user/laughingstare Such as videos of him catching a ball, scooping up oatmeal, sledding down a hill, playing a piano or celebrating Xmas. Tonight was cute, he tried to fall asleep in my arms 2 hours before bedtime. I wanted to let him soooo bad, however I knew I'd regret it later on. Grandpa babysat him for awhile today, while I went out and got 30 day continuous wear contacts! Woohoo! 20/20 all the time! No fumbling for glasses, knocking over a water glass, then tripping over things as I try to shove them on my face and tend to a crying baby. Win!


I was going to post this last night with more, but I didn't. So I'll post it now and do better next time!

Moo baa lalala

Peanut is getting better with talking :) slowly, it doesn't help that he's cut three teeth and grown an inch in the last couple weeks. Moo and baa, mama, dada and kitty.

Tomorrow we go to Grandmas, it's becoming our Saturday morning tradition as Boi always has to work. Grandpa gets to see him then, otherwise some weeks might go by and he'd miss out.

14.5 months basically already. This week flew by and so did the whole year. I feel like its last winter teaching Peanut to simply sit. Now it's blowing kisses and to not hit the power button on the TV. Sighs.

I don't want to get out of bed

So I won't and I'll blog. The radiator sounded like Peanut causing me to wake up this morning. No middle of the night nursing so far. He woke up for a bit a 530 but he put himself back down.

Peanut's love of shoes lived on last night as he tried to walk around in my shoes. We also opted to get a tree this year, he loves banging the lights together. He grew this last week to celebrate Boi's vacation, he's an inch taller now at 30 inches and change. And 22ish ponds.

*stretch* what else. He puked on the highway on our trip to see his other grandma and great grandma down south. That was pretty terrifying. However he was pretty perfect for the rest of the trip, so glad he didn't catch a bug.

I want to curl back up. And why not, right? Baby will be up soonish!