So what's new with CDub?
We're knee deep in the super-fun (but also very challenging) days of toddlerhood. I constantly find myself just staring at Charlie and wondering when he become such a little boy.
He babbles all the time, and it often sounds like he's instructing us to do something. He is starting to say a few words, mainly dog ("dah!"), but he also tries dada ("da"), bath ("ba"), and my favortie, Bella ("lella"). Yesterday we were pointing at the pictures in "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" and I was saying all their names and he kept mimicking me saying "teacher." I keep expecting that one of these days his babble will turn into words and then he'll talk our ears off.
He's continuing to do signing. For quite a while he only did "more," but now he does eat, drink, all done, bath, sleep and help. I keep working on please and thank you, but the kid hasn't picked up manners yet. But otherwise he picks them up pretty quickly, so I need to learn some more so I can teach him more.
He does really well eating table foods, but can sometimes be pretty picky. His absolute favorite foods are bananas and grapes. We have to wait to give them to him at the end of meals or else he won't eat anything else. He has a waffle and banana almost every morning, but will also eat eggs and cereal. He also likes peanut butter sandwiches and pasta with pasta sauce. He's trying more of what we're eating, too. I'm looking forward to when he just eats what we eat so I don't have to make two separate meals at each mealtime.
His favorite "game" is to carry his toys over to you and pile them in your lap. He usually does it with his little animals, his blocks, or his books. He'll pick one up, walk over to me, hand it to me, then turn around to go get another one. He does it a lot with his books, and yesterday he started opening the books before handing them to me. If he's playing independently then he'll just put them in a pile, then move them to a new pile. I'm curious what this says about his personality.
Charlie loves to go on walks with Dave and the dogs every day. A couple times he's even paced by the front the door like the dogs do in anticipation of their morning walk.
We keep a busy schedule. We go to MOPs two Mondays a month, we have playgoup through our new church on Tuesdays, we go to Bible study on Wendesdays, and we do another playgroup on Thursdays. Then on Fridays Charlie spends the day with Granny and Grandaddy. I'm so thankful for my "day off" each week. I've realized our schedule is pretty heavy on activities for me, so I'd like to look into some acitivities or classes that are more for Charlie. Unfortunately that means we'll have to let something else go, but I think Charlie would really love it.
This is also a very challenging time while I try to keep up with Charlie and help him learn boundaries. It can be hard to be patient while he learns right from wrong, and somedays I spend the entire day counting down until bedtime. I have a lot of fears about what it will be like when Peachy comes along, but I am so excited to watch them grow up together. A lot of people have told me the first 18 months will be the hardest, but after that it will be a lot of fun. So I've started a countdown to 2010! :)
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