Update on the Boys

David (9 months old, March 12)

• Pulls up to standing on anything and everything including our legs, chairs, couch, toys, dressers, tub, toilet (so making sure the toilet seats are down!), cupboards,...well, you get my drift.
• Enjoys pounding/playing the "drums" on the toilet seats. Watched him throw both hands joyously in the air after playing an especially good solo the other day.
• He can walk, but just doesn't know it yet. He always has his hand on something to give him support and comfort, but really he could move between objects without touching if he wanted. Glad he isn't so sure of himself quite yet giving me a few extra days of a non-walker in the house.
• Can crawl SUPER FAST
• Follows Jay and me EVERYWHERE in the house. His preference is to be with Jay during play time. When he is hungry or tired, he prefers me (surprise, surprise).
• Enjoys dumping out the lego box best. Oh the fun loud noises the legos make when they hit against each other and as they fall on the floor!
• Loves to take sips of water out of Jay's straw cups
• Sits in his booster seat chair for all of his meals now (and loves it!)
• Still eats the homemade pureed food I make for meals, but loves to feed himself bits of food including cooked carrots, cooked broccoli bits, zucchini bread, banana bread, chicken bits with rice, Cheerios, Kix
• Babbles, squeals, makes sing-song-y tunes, and makes fun noises with his mouth (clicks tongue, etc.); increasingly more "verbal" in those ways
• Generally sleeps 8 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. (he wakes up and after gentle patting goes back to sleep); wakes again at 4:00 a.m. (HUNGRY) so he nurses and then goes back to sleep until 6:30 or 7:00 a.m.
• Has almost transitioned completely to sleeping in his crib (which is in the same room as Jay). I've been reluctant to move him out of the bassinet in the master bedroom closet in order not to wake Jay in the night, but because of David's increased mobility and his size, it's time. In fact, the jig has been up for quite some time but I'm just getting around to getting serious about moving him to the crib. (My baby isn't a baby any more!)
  

Jay (2 years, 9 months, 12 days old today)

• As you know from the last post, enjoys singing "E-I-E-I-O" and having us sing to him "Jesus Loves Me," "This Little Light of Mine," "The B-I-B-L-E," "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," and any others songs that come to our mind.
• Says lots of words now: wa-wa (water); peas (please); tank ooo (thank you); yes; no; more; Dadda/Daddy; Mama/Mommy; Nana; PopPop; Nana's house (he loves talking about going to Nana's house or Nana and PopPop's house); so (slow); fa (fast); mall (he likes to go to our shopping mall); bull (we've watched the cowboys ride the bucking bulls a few times on the ESPN channel); "huh?" or "hmm?"- equivalent to "what" and yes, he has hit the "what?" stage saying "huh?" "hmm?" or "what?" to almost everything you say/tell him which can get annoying at times; calls David "baby" almost all the time and will call baby "Day-day" if you get him to say baby's name; Jay DOESN'T tell you his name, (I've never heard him say his name before) but if asked how old he is he quickly answers, "two!" Instead of saying the names of animals, he still just makes their sound ("moo" for cow; "baa" for lamb/sheep; "bak bak" for chicken; etc.).
• Enjoys playing with his toys all morning - especially with his trucks and legos and trains.
• Talks his own words that don't make any sense almost non-stop if he isn't saying "real" words.
• Started going "pee" in his potty a few weeks ago. When asked/prompted he usually will try going pee on his potty which is great. We sing songs and read books while waiting for "pee" to happen. Sometimes after trying for a while he'll look at me, shake his head no, and say, "No pee, Momma" with a sad look on his face. Having him tell me he needs to go pee before he pees in his diaper hasn't happened, but we are one step closer to being potty trained!
• Has a cool new Ford GT Concept Coupe on a 1:24 scale on the back of the toilet to motivate him to go "poo" in his potty. He can't have it or play with it until that happens, so it remains there for now.