Huston - November 2011

Huston, it has been quite the month.  You had a sleepover with your cousins, had your first trip to the ER, went trick or treating and your Nana Loretta came to visit.  You have mastered putting on your shoes and socks and sometimes try your shirt and pants.  You are a busy little man and can pretty much do anything you put your mind to and you are learning so much!

You are amazing us daily with all of your new words.  You are saying complete sentences and can say almost any word you try to.  You love to play a word flashcard app on my iphone and I hear you practicing words all of the time.  When you are reading a book you will point to letters and try to "spell" the word....you don't quite match up the letter with what you are saying but you are definitely getting the concept.  When we write your name, you can sometimes even tell us which letter goes next.  You also try to count 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 3 or a similar combination.

You love to color!  All of the time.  Nonstop.  Either you are coloring in a color book, drawing on a balloon with a pen, using pen and paper, painting on canvas or arts and crafts...you really can't get enough.  You are pretty good too.  You fill in coloring book shapes pretty well and I will draw something and you will try to copy it and get pretty close.  You are also starting to recognize some colors.

Right now you are really getting into tv shows, your favorites are Yo Gabba Gabba, Barney, Handy Manny and Blues Clues.  You still like to play cars and trains, and have discovered dinosaurs and monsters (insert your scary voice when you say dinosauuuuuur & monnnnnster).

You are still not eating meat, but you are trying more things.  You love your string cheese, grapes, bagels, pancakes, waffles and fruit roll ups.  Daddy also helped you discovered donuts, so on the weekend if we leave in the mornings, you always ask for "doneys".

You still hold your ear when you are drinking your milk and no matter how many times we move your hand, you put it right back on the ear.  You sleep with your Toy Story blanket, "b", and your stuffed Buzz doll.  When we say it's time for bed, you kiss us goodnight and then walk in there all on your own.

Some of our favorite things you say are:  "Come, Sit down" (as you point to the carpet), please - "fleas", "No, Daddy, no", woo-hoo - "hoo-woo", "yipeee", "mommy happy, daddy happy, aydin happy, thank you - "dank you", love you - "zuv you".

And my most favorite thing you do right now is copy your daddy.  You are "learning" to shave, you do stretches and sit-ups with him each evening and you are always wearing his shoes or his hat.  You are his little mini me.

Love you so much baby boy!