gog=dog baw=ball baba=bottle pup=cup wawa=water pump=pumpkin gilk=milk (this normally comes with a soft little giggle and a chest pat) baber=boober (what taylor calls nursing), sometimes he uses this when he wants to nurse too meow=cat op=open poon=spoon
Many of his other words are quite clear. He says truck, tractor (a little mumbled, but definitely a two syllable word), clock, on, off, moon, hi, bye-bye, poop (yes, poop, thank you jason). He repeats so much of what we say with such clarity it still shocks us at times. For example, I'll say "do you want to read Goodnight Georgia " (this is one of his very favorite books right now) and he'll say "georgia," clear as day. But then he won't use the word later. He just likes to repeat what we say. It's just unbelievable how well he can mimic our words.
Oh my gosh, his sounds. He brrrms anything with wheels, he clip clops his horse, he makes crashing noises when he knocks over a stack of blocks, and he knows his animal noises well. He can tell you the sounds that all of these animals make. Lion, tiger, dinosaur, elephant, dog, cat, horse, pig, duck, rooster, cow, turkey, monkey. He can tell you a bunny goes "hop-hop," and that sometimes dogs howl.
He also understands so much now. If we are sitting playing and I ask him if he wants to eat, or tell him it's time for a bath, he will get up and walk to his high chair or into the bathroom, knowing full well what we were just talking about. You better not make him wait for food once you've talked about it or he'll get mad and let you know all about it!
We filled October with many of the typical fall things. Here are a few shots of us at Tuttle Orchards, picking apples and pumpkins.
Adam's pick
He loves "pumps." We even keep a little one in the car for him to hold on road trips!
He is walking so well, and pretty fast by now. We'll let him try to walk almost any terrain just to see how he does. He loves the freedom that walking brings! He still falls, but it doesn't phase him in the slightest. He just gets up and starts over.
Tuttle Orchards has a little play area for kids, with a big wooden tractor. He loved it. He has been obsessed with tractors since the hayride on the Wentworth farm.
Driving the tractor
We took him off of the tractor to try to get some pictures in the hay. Clearly, a bad call on our part! We skipped the pictures and went back to the tractor!
This is Adam checking out the llama and little goats.
He was ecstatic over the animals.One thing that was definitely different about having J at home was that he would let Adam wear anything, or nothing in some cases. I love to buy clothes for Adam and get him dressed each day. Jason could care less. Maybe J was teaching Adam the sliding move from Risky Business, I don't know. What I do know is that I was not responsible for this look!
We took a family trip to the museum.
Adam loved watching the trains. He says brrrm, brrrm for a train too. We are working on choo-choo.
He, of course, manages to get his hands on a couple of balls at the water table. Balls and anything with wheels are his favorite things.
Fun at the water table
A bit wet, but so worth it!
Goofing around, making faces at dada through the tunnel.
He loves saying hello and good-bye to the bear as we come and go from playscape! Well, Halloween really could have been an entire post all on it's own. I love Halloween, always have, so I started shopping for his costume months ago. I found an adorable monkey that I decided was the one. When I tried it on him he freaked about the head piece that went with it. He would tear at it the entire time it was on, screaming. I decided that the monkey wasn't worth the money without the headpiece (he didn't even look like a monkey) so I returned it. Halloween came and I ended up borrowing a duck costume from a girl at work. I thought it would be perfect since he quacks so well. He wore the duck when we went to zoo boo one mild October day.
Adam the duck
Lisa and Tay went with us to ZooBoo. Taylor was a bumblebee.
Once we were at the zoo and around all of the kids dressed up Adam didn't mess with the headpiece on the duck once. I was so sad I had returned the monkey!
Adam was so cute as a duck, walking around in full costume all over the zoo. Strangers were literally taking pictures of him he was so cute. However, everyone thought he was a chick, which means everyone thought he was a girl! I couldn't handle it. I decided then and there that the duck, a.k.a. the chick, would not be making an appearance on Halloween night!Luckily, someone else at work had a costume that would fit just right! And a definite boy costume at that! A dinosaur! We told him two or three times that a dinosaur went ROAR and he had it down. It worked out perfect. He was so cute, and definitely a boy!
We have been spending Halloween with the McClain's since before we were married. Had to continue the tradition with a night at their house. We did a short bit of trick or treating with Margaret (adam was much more interested in the pumpkins on people's porches than the candy they were handing out) until we gave him his first candy bar ever. A kit kat. Clearly he loved it!
Adam with his kit kat
He would literally say "mmmmmm" between bites!
Adam the dinosaur
Adam with his kit kat and his pumpkin. He's in heaven!
Boy oh boy will he get mad when he runs out of kit kat!Until he sees his next piece!!
Adam loves to dance. He has his signature white boy moves down. (The slight bending of the knees with the bouncing up and down.) He loves songs and he'll even do some of the motions to itsy bitsy spider when you sing it for him. His obsession with the moon continues. He points it out in all of our books and loves to go outside in the evening to look for it. (It was nearly a full moon on Halloween...he was in heaven!). He loves using his four front teeth to bite into food. He knows eyes, mouth, and nose will point them out on anyone but himself. He even says "eye" "no" and "mou" as he points. Oh my gosh does this kid love to read. He will ask to read book after book after book. I have gotten into the habit of sitting down on the floor once or twice a day and pulling out 10-12 books and just letting him pick which books to read (sometimes it's the same book over and over, and other times we'll make it through the whole stack). He turns the pages too, so he tends to dictate the speed at which we read these books. I just read until he is satisfied with them and something else manages to get his attention. I find if I don't do this often enough he gets very mad at nap time once his 2-3 books are read. He'll scream and point for another. Luckily I can distract him with the boob! He loves to be outside. Now that he is walking so well, he will walk for several houses to reach the truck he wants to see or the neighbor that is out mowing. It is never a mystery where he is leading us. He talks about it the whole way there, pointing at the object of interest and saying truck, or with a mower, saying brrrm, brrrm until we get close enough to get a good look.
