Geesh, I used to think it was bad that I was always a month behind, now I'm 3 months behind! I'm going to try really hard to catch up!
Tyler's life this month in bullet points:
- He started jumping off things, like the couch. The kid loves to jump.
- He wants to touch everything this month, particularly things out of reach like the sky, stars and moon. He says "touch moon?" and reaches for it.
- He started putting his hands over his ears when something's even remotely loud.
- He loves dancing to the "harmica" (harmonica). He will only dance when daddy plays it. When I play it, he stops dancing, takes it from me and hands it back to daddy. I have no musical talent and even my 2 yr old recognizes it.
- He has no interest in the iphone anymore. I can leave it sitting on the table and he'll completely ignore it or even move it out of his way so he can play. I am baffled, who took my child?
- He hit me for the first time (lightly and out of frustration) and I introduced him to his first time-out. He just sat there and cried for milk. Unbelievably he never tried to get up.
- I got all excited and had a proud mommy moment because he said "shut the door" instead of "shut door". I had to call my mom because I was so excited he said "the". It sure doesn't take much to impress a mom.
- He started saying "Owwww!" whenever he hurts something.
- He's very excited about his ability to read and spell zoo. He spells it out loud "Z [pause] OH OH!".
- He's starting to read simple words like pig, cow, cat, dog and beep beep.
- He decided he was done with diapers this month, so we said ok, I guess we're potty training this month. He's fully day trained but we're not quite accident-free at night time yet. I'll try and cover the details in a separate post if anyone is interested.
- We we're out walking in front of our house, Tyler was in a t-shirt and diaper. A family stopped to talk us. After a bit, Ty realized he was the only one without pants. He lifted up his shirt, looked at me and said, "mama, pants?".
- I fixed his broken car and handed it to him, he said "mama fix car, good job, yeah mama!!!".
- I started picking up his toys and he sang "clean up, clean up, it's time to clean up".
- While asleep on my shoulder, he burped and said "eh-cuse me".
- Our nanny Jill said "come on Addison, come on Tyler" and Tyler said "come on Jill".
- He says "no sing!" when I start to sing.
- We were laying on Tyler's floor looking up at the stars projected from his nightlight. I stood up and Tyler said "Lay down Jill!". Wow that was strange hearing my 2 yr old call me by my name!
- I got my braces off and the first time Tyler saw my teeth, he wanted to touch them. I asked him what he thought and he said "white!".
- He's a total jokester! When I ask him "where do you go potty when you have to pee?", he answers with "on the carpet, in the fan, in Dada's hand" with a smirk on his face. I can't get him to answer seriously.
- Out of the blue he grabbed paper towels and started trying to wipe his butt. He then insisted on going around the room and wiped all of our butts. I guess this is good training for a son with older parents, this will come in handy when we're lounging around in our Depends.
This month in photos:
My little Old Navy Cowboy
He came walking around the corner with this sifter saying "I see you!"
I couldn't figure out where the dishwasher basket went... then I found it with a new identity of a parking garage.
Puzzle racks make for great parking garages as well!
Picking up chicks in pickup trucks
Hugs
I love how Tildy has her arm around him!
