My baby is growing up!! He's so fun. In just a few short months he'll be 2 years old. The time has gone by awfully fast.
He's talking a lot. He loves to talk on the phone to anyone who will listen. He often asks to speak to Grandma, Papa, Aunt Katie, and CHOKA! He loves to play with his cousins and talks about them frequently as well. He calls Kensington, "Tinsey," and Juliette, "Baby." He is pretty good with Zayaa and Ariunaa's names but calls Danny either, "Nanny" or "Zayaa." He still says his own name "Didi." He can kinda say Scarlett. We're working on it. It hasn't sunk in, we don't think, that he's going to have a baby sister. We talk about it but I don't think he understands yet. Maybe he does. He often surprises me with how much he knows and understands.
He recently started saying "I'm stuck" but he says it, "I'm cuz!" It's pretty funny. He loves to talk about cars and Buzz and Woody still. He's also expanded to talking about Mickey Mouse and Wow Wow Wubbzy. The latter two are his favorite shows at the moment. He often says, "I want Wow Wow Wuzzy." He sings along with the theme songs to both shows. He loves to sing along with whatever music is playing. It is adorable. My little singer. I need to get it on tape. He can turn on his music on his iPod. He also knows how to turn on his shows or play his games all by himself on his iPod. Such a smart little thing.
He loves to read books. He loves to dance. He loves to ride in the car. He sometimes will bring me my coat or my shoes and tell me, "I want carseat." He loves his shoes too. He wants to wear them all the time. He can put them on by himself. He also tries to dress himself and put on his own diaper. We're working on laying the ground work for potty training and I think he probably could have been trained awhile ago but I've just been too tired to try very hard. There was one time that he said, "potty" to his daddy while he was naked but peed on the floor before Tyler knew what to do about it.
He's really into coloring and drawing right now. We sit on the floor for hours and scribble. It's also been a good quiet activity for church. He won't go to nursery yet, but he had a traumatic experience there awhile back. Last week he stayed for a good ten minutes and I'm happy with any kind of progress. I think that's where he caught his cold though. I'm not thrilled about that. I We have both been sick the last couple of days. This next short story is not for the faint of stomach so skip it if that describes you. I was changing his first poopy diaper of the day yesterday and ended up throwing up on his pajamas. Poopy diapers, pregnancy, and being sick is not a good combination for me I guess. Luckily I had the diaper pad down and the mess was localized to his pajamas and the the pad so it was pretty easy to clean up.
He's pretty good at eating by himself as well. He likes to use utensils and doesn't really make much of a mess unless I give him a cup without a lid. He loves to dump his drink out and splash in it.
Derek is just the sweetest little thing. He often grabs my hand and kisses my palm. He kisses everything right now. I drew Mickey Mouse the other day and he leaned down and kissed it. His laugh is magical and he is usually happy and smiling. His daddy makes him laugh the hardest. He still loves to play coy and flirty with all the girls. Most everyone comments on his gorgeous eyelashes. I'm such a proud little mama. I just think he's an amazing little kid.
We had a very Merry Christmas! It was a month ago, I know, but is it ever too late to talk about how wonderful Christmas is? Dad and Bree came up to celebrate with us. Derek was a little overwhelmed with the present opening. He was happy with the first present. He just wanted to stop and play. We had to cajole him to open each additional present. It was still very cute. We started with stockings and we put some candy canes sticking out of the top. He was thrilled! He didn't care about anything else! He stole all of Bree's candy canes and was walking around with arms full of candy canes. We could have saved a bunch of money this year and stopped with those!
He was very excited about Mickey.
The family photo. It took many attempts to get this picture. I closed my eyes in a couple of previous pictures so my eyes look kinda bugged. Haha.
Our little family.
