Peanut is picking up so many new things each day, it's all happening so fast. Colin tries to repeat many of the words we say and our actions (uh-oh!). He's starting to put signs and words together to request (and sometimes demand) things. He signed "bear" while growling and then made the sign for "book" and said "buk". He wanted the Brown Bear book before bed (hey! an alliteration, nice!). We let him pick two books. He'll get upset and demand more "buk", but two's the limit, buddy.
Itsy Bitsy Spider was playing in the car and Colin signed the song to himself in the back seat mirror. I almost crashed the car watching in my review mirror. Too cool. You can watch him trying to figure out how to say the words to his favorite songs. Colin loves the Wiggles' "Hot Potato"! That song will turn his frown upside down in a second. He can do all the motions, but now he's thinking about the word potato and tries to sound it out.
Colin seems to be telling himself the stories in the books. We'll come home from daycare and he'll go sit among his books and look through a bunch of them squeaking out sing song words and pointing at the pictures. Other times, he's climbing in and out of cupboards while we try not to drop anything on top of him in the kitchen. Or, we're late getting home and he's banging his cup on his booster seat demanding "eat"!
When he hugs you, he pats you on the back. I think he picked that up from little Allison at daycare who hugs him when he arrives. He's her "baby". I dropped him off at daycare one day and he saw Maria and squealed "eee-ah, eee-ah". She bent down to hug him and he hugged and patted her back. So sweet.
You'll notice Colin is still wearing the bib fashion accessory for in-coming molars. He is still drooling buckets. We'll take that over a diaper rash, boy!
Yes, we are at the stage of wanting to touch everything, and if it fits, we put it in our mouth. Here he is splashing in Aunt Kathy and Uncle John's water fountain. That water was cold. He was soaked and loved it.
We've now named his tight fisted excitement "power up". If you do it, he'll copy you and your intensity. Hilarious! We let him loose at Costco and he was "powering up" at all the big box items. He was really ticked that the brightly colored, inflatable water island slide was hanging from the rafters way out of his reach. We experienced his ballistic "power up".
"Then Skippyjon Jones goes to sleep, so he can do it all over again when he wakes up." -from one of his, well okay, one of my favorite books of his.
