An Update on Christian

I know this little boy is almost 2 but he is getting so big and doing so much right now in his life that I need to write a few things down before I forget them all. So here is a list of a few things he is up to lately.

1. He is talking sooooo much. He hit about 21 months (back in Sept.) and he just started with a few words and now is a little chatter box. If you ask him to say something he will do his best to repeat it. Some of my favorite things he says......
-When ever he hears the Michigan fight song. He puts his arm up in the air and says "Go, Blue!"
-When someone is bothering him or he doesn't want to do something he gets a grumpy face and says "Want it" (meaning he doesn't want to do it)
-When he wants to watch curious George on TV he will come up to me and say "Georgie?" and climb up in my lap.
-We have Halloween decorations out and I have a black house that I put tea lites in and whenever he sees that house, lit up or not, he will say over and over again, "Spooky"
-Its fun to listen to him say Julia's name. It started off like ju-da but now its a little better and says ju-ya
-He wakes up every morning and always says, "Daddy work" (I guess he knows when he is not home)
-Just listening to him talk is fun. And he will repeat the word over and over again until you acknowledge him.

2. A big thing that Christian loves to do is drag a chair over to the light switch and turn the lights on and off. Or every time we walk by the light switch and he sees it he wants to help turn the lights on and off.

3. He LOVES to play with his matchbox cars. He will carry them around the house all day long and when he has more than one this is how he likes to carry them around......

A couple in each hand and usually one in his mouth. Such a silly boy!

4. He loves to sit and eat breakfast and watch Signing Time. He will usually wake up asking to watch "Play" before we even get to the table. He has a lot of the shows memorized because he can tell me what is coming on next. And his favorite thing to eat every morning is cinnamon toast and grape juice. He wakes up and, again, before we get to the table he is requesting, "toast, juice."

5. Whenever we get out of the car and need to walk to the store or park or even if we are walking down the stairs at home. He will say to me "hand" which means he wants to hold your hand and walk and do it
with some help. So cute.

6. Christian still loves to take a bath. Bath time is usually right after we eat dinner. And once I say the word bath he gets so excited and will sign and say bath over and over again until I get him in the tub. He just squeals and does his little happy dance all the way to the bathroom.

7. He loves to give people high-fives. And if he gives one person a high five he has to give everyone in the room a high-five. He holds his hand up to everyone and says "five."

8. The knows that the corner means time-out. And he is so obedient about going to the corner and standing there. He will face the corner and not move and you won't hear a peep out of him until its time to come out. And he loves to tell everyone who acts up, especially Julia, that they need to go to the corner. He even knows that when he does something wrong he will say "corner" before I do. I have to post the picture when I get it but we were up at the Draper Temple the other day and he saw a corner by some stairs and just put himself in the corner. He hadn't done anything wrong but he said "corner" and just stood there for a few minutes all by himself.

He put himself in the corner

All done being in the corner and a happy boy!

9. He loves to look at books or loves to bring you a book and have you look at him with you. He will bring you the book and automatically turn around and sit down in your lap. He LOVES his books! Lately he will carry around the house a couple of books and just sit and look at them over and over again.

10. This boy is becoming a better eater. His favorite things right now are noodles, chicken nuggets, apples, applesauce, toast, milk, juice, pizza, bread, granola bars,candy and snacks. And he can say all of them too. He is getting so good at using a fork and spoon and he gets really mad if you try and help him. You have to just give him his food and let him at it. He knows when its snack time too. He will not leave you alone until you get him one. He will repeat the word "snack" over and over again. And then he usually has to pick out which snack he wants or he gets upset. So I have to limit the choices for him. He usually requests a snack cookie or a candy at every meal. But I have to remind him that we have to eat first and then have a snack.

11. He also sleeps through the night now. Again, when he hit the 21 month mark he just slept through the night. He tends to get up early and I have tried to get him to drink milk from the sippy cup and go back to bed but that is not happening. He won't take a sippy cup in bed like he did with the bottle. I miss those days but he is to old for a bottle now.

Christian is so funny and smart. We love having him in our family. He makes us laugh everyday and we love him so very much.