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Man, oh, man. How time flies!
I haven't told you about your second Christmas/Hannukah or New Year's Eve and it's already late January. You've been growing and changing so quickly that it's hard to keep up! But here are the highlights:
+You liked Hannukah!
But didn't necessarily love posing for Hannukah pictures:
+ You didn't dislike Santa:
+You loved the lights on the Christmas tree and constantly requested that it be "on."
+ You loved dreidels and worked really hard to spin them yourself
+ We had Hannukahs with Mimi and Pops and Christmas with the Roomianis:
+ You finally got the hang of opening presents around the 4th night of Hannukah...
when I turned my back for a moment and you had torn open Uncle Joseph's present under the tree! A crock pot did not interest you (no video).
+You ate your first donut during Hannukah...and it was awesome!
+ Mr. POTATO HEAD is awesome!
+ Jingle Bells Snoopy is HILARIOUS!
+Preston and Toby continued to be your bestest buddies!
+ You got your first hair cut (and you already need another!)
+We went to the park tons (and tons of parks) and you got bolder and bolder in your independence. You now climb the structure and go down the slide all by yourself!
+You also took to the water fountain like a fish to...well..water!
+We played with friends and you even got some matching Buzz Light Year Pajamas from your God Parents, the Nodelands and hung out with Brady and the Shields a lot!
+ You continued to LOVE Toy Story and all things Toy Story. You even created your own signal for "To infin
+ You got and destroyed a Toy Story tent in under a month (it was faulty construction...not your fault!)
+ Your favorite song is now "You've got a friend in me" from Toy Story. We listen to Randy Newman ALL the time now.
+ You are requesting things with your expanding (and creative) vocabulary.
- "Ha ha" or "Ba" is Toy Story ("Ha Ha" is "Howdy"..we don't get "ba")
- You request your #2 favorite song, Muppet's Bohemian Rhapsody, by saying "Ma" and pointing up to the sky (very clever if you ask me...you combined "look up to the skies and see" with "mama" to let us know what you want...and yesterday we heard the song 25,431 times!)
- You request your #3 favorite song in the world by saying "Oh wee oh," which is quite accurate:
- You created your own sign for "thirsty" which is very accurate
- Last night you told us you were hungry with a brand new sign: putting your fist in your mouth!
- Yesterday in Target your Mommy was looking for me and calling me by name. You responded by quickly learning and echoing "Ahn..Ahn!" (my name is Aaron...nice to meet you!)
+You "help" us "clean"
+You can now eat at the table like a big boy! (and you do a great job of it!)
+ You are some sort of acrobat:
- we inherited Addison's old play mat and you keep trying to do somersaults on it all by yourself!
+ You are some sort of monkey:
- You're climbing like crazy. Your green chair is your ticket "up" (also, your vocabulary continues to grow! "up up up!")
- Today your Mommy turned her head for one second and you had scaled the safety gate to the stairs and were rapidly climbing upstairs!
+And...major milestone...you're now officially forward facing.
It's so hard keeping up with you nowadays, not just because you're scaling walls and growing like a weed. But you're changing and growing and maturing into a great kid every second of every day. It's hard to look backward when you keep us facing forward!
