I HAVE mentioned how hard it is to get a good sharp photo of him these days, right? Yeah, I thought so. We were just hanging out in the office/craft room listening to Daddy play his drum one night and I decided to get the camera out.
I think I caught him mid-word here. :)
Just had to share these -- his faces crack me up. Especially when you look at them all together. This was the exact order that we took them. I think maybe in the first (top left) he was waiting for the flash? I don't use flash if I can help it. I most definitely didn't in these. The bottom left is probably where I was trying to get him to smile so I told him to say "cheeeese". It looks like he did. :)
Y'all would not believe all that this kid can do at almost 2 years old. This is probably the heart of every mama but I am SO proud of him. :: heart bursting ::
I've always talked about him being a chatterbox and that hasn't changed -- it's just that now we can understand maybe 75% of what he says. He's still got a little bit of that "japanese" he speaks going on, but he will attempt to say anything we ask him to. And some things we DON'T ask him to, if you know what I mean. :: raises eyebrow ::
He's close to knowing all his body parts and where they are. He most definitely knows his first name and is just beginning to say his last name when we prompt him. The way he says "Wenzel" is so cute. :) Well, that pretty much goes for anything he says, in my opinion. He sings A LOT. To himself, or with us. I think his faves at this point are "Twinkle, Twinkle", the ABC song and he still likes "The Wheels on the Bus". Jeff recently taught him "Jesus Loves the Little Children" and he likes that one, too. He can finish parts of all the songs we sing together if we stop singing. Such a smarty. :)
He also knows who the best his fave baseball team is. If you ask him who his fave baseball team is, he says "yyyyyyaaaaankeeeeees!!" It's adorable how excited he gets. We watch a lot of Yankees baseball in this house so he recognizes the Yankees logo and even the MLB logo, hello! Jeff loves that!
He is especially into trains, specifically Thomas, right now. He likes trucks and fire engines (which are referred to as buses, for some reason -- I guess they do look more like a bus than a truck...), and still loves to sit in your lap and look at books. He's beginning to let us read to him more than just wanting to flip through the pages as fast as he can and move on. He's still got that 10 sec attention span, but he will actually point out things on the pages to us, or answer questions that we ask about what's on the page. I'm so glad he loves books. :)
We FINALLY got him to say the number 1! Right up until this week, probably, he would NOT say "one". When we would ask him to say "one", he would skip right to 2. Well, now he's started counting with 1...2...4...6...7...9...10. We're missing some numbers, sure, but the important one at this point is 2 and he's had that one for AWHILE.
There are so many little things -- triumphs, sweet (as well as frustrating) moments, etc. that I haven't included in my general summary here of life with our toddler but we are enjoying every single moment, watching Deacon grow and change. I just wanted to share a little of that with you. :)
[22 months]
