Are we really a third of the way through 2012 already? Lulu wasn’t even here at the beginning of the year, and now she’s growing out of her 3 month clothes!
Taking care of Baby Lulu continues to be my favorite thing to do – I fetch binkies, give her toys, and alert Mommy whenever “my Baby Sister is CWYING!” I love running and jumping and playing outside as the weather gets warmer, and I’m very imaginative. “The ghosts are coming to eat us! Run away! Run away!” Max and I are *beginning* to play tag and hide-and-seek, but the nuances of both games escape us so far, so really we’re just running together much of the time.
Mommy is continually blown away by the things I understand and repeat; I told her my toy cars were stopped at a stop sign and she asked what color a stop sign is. “A red ock-uh-gon, Mommy.” I picked up a toy and explained to Daddy that it was a piece of coal. Then I told him all about how coal makes trains go. And today? I was coloring in a Thomas coloring book and I told Mommy I was coloring in the buffers…
I love dinosaurs and trains and Mickey Mouse and Sesame Street. I do NOT like when things are not going my way, or I can’t make my words work to tell Mommy or Daddy what I want. I am about 27 pounds and 33″ tall – but Mommy will tell you I’m 34″ because 33″ isn’t even ON the growth charts… I’ve been on a SUPER long nap strike and then yesterday, I fell asleep at 4:30 and slept through the night! Sheer exhaustion does *exactly* what you might imagine for my moods, but I don’t want to go to sleep and miss anything!
Checking in with the BabyCenter milestones:
Mastered Skills (most kids can do)
- Recites own name – Are you kidding? I can introduce the whole family!
- Draws a circle – Yup.
Emerging Skills (half of kids can do)
- Puts on a t-shirt – I’m more interested in taking them OFF.
- Balances on each foot for a second – Yes.
- Recognizes ABCs – *Some* of them; I can pretty reliably pick out C and R and S, but that’s about it.
- Brushes teeth by himself – When I’m in a teeth-brushy kind of mood.
Advanced Skills (a few kids can do)
- Uses two adjectives – I am a *very* descriptive guy.
- Draws a cross – No. And you couldn’t call it an X? or a T?
- Points to objects described by use – Mommy still hasn’t tried this one…
its amazing right? at one point my nephew was telling me (at 3.5 years old) the difference between a front loader, a dump trunk and an excavator. i called them all digging trucks. ha!