March

Adam on his first hike

We are only a few weeks into Adam's 2nd year. He is healthy, happy and growing very quickly. He now has 8 teeth (4 top front, 4 bottom front). He's also in the process of getting his back teeth. Occasionally, this makes him fussy and we have to give him Ibuprofen. Most days, he does fine without any pain reliever.

Some of the things Adam has learned recently include:

• waving hello/bye
• clapping his hands
• tipping toeing (to look over something or to try to jump)
• kicking a ball and dribbling it (as in soccer) across the room
• putting things into containers
• taking his pants off (not exactly welcomed by us)
• setting the cable tv's parental control to ON (also not welcomed by us--we don't know the password)

Our Adam is quite the bookworm and as Shell said, "He is more interested in books than all his toys put together." Certainly, his favorite activity is having someone read a book to him. His favorite books right now are (not in any specific order)

• Goodnight Moon
• Blue Hat, Green Hat
• Corduroy
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear
• Grandma and Me
• Corduroy's Trick-or-Treat
• Biscuit's Pet & Play Halloween
• The Very Busy Spider
• The Monster at the End of this Book

His favorites seem to either have animals, animal sounds or to encourage interaction with the story. He loves the part when the reader says, "Oops!" in Blue Hat, Green Hat. He giggles when the reader gets to the Teacher at the end of Brown Bear, Brown Bear. He gets a kiss from the reader after Grandma and Me, so he insists that this last page is visited several times a reading session. He repeats the animal sounds from the Very Busy Spider and has learned to match the sound to the animal. Call us amazed!

He doesn't limit his interests to just those books. Those are the everyday staples. He also selects from the rest of his collection of books and will even pull out our books and magazines. One day, I followed him into the nursery where he sat down with the instructions pamphlet for the pull-up exercise bar.

Our guy doesn't just love books. He loves being silly. Here is a picture of him putting his mouth on his toes. After doing this particular antic, he sits up and smirks or giggles. He knows that he's being funny.

Nummy Piggies

Today, I gave our baby boy his first hair cut. We kept his curly locks on his head for as long as possible. The front part of his hair was starting to fall into his eyes and the back of his hair tangles everyday---he does NOT like having his tangles combed out. It was time.

We caught him just after a nap and before lunch. These are pictures I took after his hair cut. I did my best considering he had no idea what was going on and he was moving around quite a bit.