August updates

You are certainly a talker!! You keep yourself entertained for minutes playing with toys and grunting at them or babbling at them. You say “da dada dadada” it’s your favorite thing to babble right now. You know your dada that’s for sure. But you call me “dada” most of the time too, which is pretty funny…I know I know, dada is easier to say than “mama”. I have heard you say “ma” a couple of times, but it just doesn’t roll of your tongue as easily. You have started to try and stand up in the middle of the room, without pulling up on anything, which is pretty impressive to watch. You let go when you are pulled up on something and remain standing for a couple of seconds. We are sure that you will be walking in no time. You’ve also gone through some major separation anxieties this month (week), and you want mommy all the time. Makes me feel so special!! At the same time though it is hard to leave you with anyone when I go to the gym, or to church or to bible studies, because I know that you will cry for me—makes me sad to see that, but I know that it’s a phase you will grow out of. Even when we are at home, and it’s just you and me, you get so ansy when you don’t see me in the same room as you. You go searching after me, and have even ended up in the laundry room, thinking “where is my mom, she normally heads in the kitchen direction” I know I’m mean, but I’ve only done this a couple of times—I will step away from the room where you are in playing, and watch from around the corner to see when you realize that I’m gone. It’s amazing to see, you stop what you are doing all of a sudden, and look around—you look like your little wheels are turning trying to figure out where I went—and then a few seconds later you leave what you were doing and head out crawling to find me. And you are so smart. Sometimes I crawl on the floor with you and we play the “ring around the chest” game, where I crawl around the chest and say “bye bye” to you, you normally follow about ¾’s of the way around and then realize, “now wait a minute, if I just go the other way, I’ll run into mom”—and sure enough you do. You turn around and run into me and you give out this great giggle saying “ha ha, I found you mom!!”