"The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing."
-Natalie Kocsis
It’s nice to live in a home where impromptu dance parties can break out at any moment. The pictures below were from Rock n’ Roll Elmo™ seen to the right of the pictures. James’ moves primarily involve him turning around in circles over and over, which doesn’t put him too far off his Dad’s dancing ability.
As Halloween approaches, we are in the inevitable back and forth answering of the “what do you want to be for Halloween” question. James, for his part, really doesn’t care. Ashlyn picked out a Snow White costume, but when she saw James in the Yoda costume that Mom bought him, she changed her mind and wanted to be Princess Leia from Star Wars. You’ll have to check back after Halloween for the end result.
But what about food you ask? You didn’t ask? Well, I’m going tell you about food anyway. Ashlyn and James are both progressing in their eating. Ashlyn is now self sufficient in making and preparing food several meals for herself, including sandwiches. James is getting better at using a fork to eat chicken nuggets. Both are very proud of their accomplishments.
In addition to his cutlery skills, James is also improving his vocabulary. He still has trouble pronouncing them, but he knows around 17 words in total. The full list is at the bottom of the blog post. The pictures below were the result of James pulling us outside to ask for bubbles. Ashlyn then taught him the joys of pouring.
Mom has been perusing Pinterest again in preparation of Ashlyn’s upcoming birthday party and Party City is appreciative. Below is the beginnings of a themed piñata. To see the final version, tune in next week.
The weather turned out to be great on Sunday, so when PePa came over breakfast we spent a lot of time outside running around and jumping on the trampoline. Ashlyn did her best to send James air born, but James stubbornly refused to keep both feet in contact with the mat.
After naps we took the kids out to the park to enjoy what turned out to be a picture perfect day. Both the kids had a great time going up and down the playground. James enjoyed exploring the park and trying to fall into the creek, and then after a juice box break he showed his commitment to the juice box by taking it with him on the swings. Ashlyn ran, slid, climbed, and jumped on almost every inch of the playground.
The many words of James…
- Mama
- Dada
- Hot
- Cat
- Dog
- Cracker
- No No
- Uh Oh
- Banana
- Eye
- Elmo
- Tickle
- More
- Bubbles
- Fish
- Foot
- Bowl
Signs
- Milk
- More
- Help
- Eat
- All done (this is done in two ways, the actual sign and by throwing food all over the kitchen)