The bashing game

Right now Cai and A are playing the bashing game, which involves two small farm animals sniffing each other and then knocking each other off a footstool. They each take turns. Weird. 

2.5!

Two is definitely the best age so far. 

Little dude can sing all sorts of songs. He can ride a scooter. He’s a great jumper and has started to be able to put together train tracks on his own. He has a complicated imagination and plays games that happen just in his brain. 

We had a good Christmas. He got some sweet toys and books and has been happily playing with them. He loves toddler iPad games. He loves puzzles. He likes drawing and painting and playdough. He still naps!

We lost his cat buddy the day after Thanksgiving last year though, and he keeps talking about him. I know this is the first year that memories will really stick. I hope most of them are good ones. 

27 months??

I know, what a slacker. 

Dude’s birthday party went great, he was healthy at his check-up. Since then, we put an offer in on a house, bought it, and moved in (two weeks ago) throughout all of which Cai has been stellar. 

He chose the color for his room, a bright green, and spent the first night in the house petting the wall and saying, “I like this color. This green is nice. I love this green.”

His sentences have gotten increasingly complex: “my foot is stuck in the blanket,” “I have water on the eye” (he had splashed some water from his cup into his face). He tells us that he loves us and quite enjoys telling us what to do. 

The new house has a playroom, which he likes a lot. It’s also great in that he can open all the doors himself, and has railings on the stairs that make it easy for him to use. He has his own bathroom even, where hopefully we can install a kid toilet seat. 

Busy!

23 months?

For another day!

I had a whole post written in my head for 22 months, but it’s been busy looking for houses and running around with a toddler. 

Included in that post were to be:

Cai can

• Use the past tense. 
• Use sentences. 
• Use increasingly complicated sentences. 
• Jump like crazy. 
• Do somersaults (as of last night). 

I’d like to say more interesting things, but he’s been up, presumably from molars, for the last few nights and I’m exhausted. 

Twenty-one months

Little dude is 1.75 today. He spent most of it feeling lousy from a low-grade fever and cold (“Snot,” he tells me tearily), sleeping or watching Daniel Tiger.

In the last two weeks, he has learned how to jump (way fun) and figured out colors (less fun for him, pretty neat for me). His vocabulary is nuts. A few nights ago, he told us he was Super Daniel Tiger, but then amended it to Super Cai, where he lays on pillows and pretends to fly. He’s a huge fan of pretending to feed and water his stuffed animals and his baby doll, doing puzzles, and splashing in puddles. He’s really started to cobble together sentences. He’s also started to tell us he loves things (mostly pizza).

He’s always had a huge personality, but it’s nice now that he can tell us what he’s thinking. As he does. Constantly.

He woke up this morning. “Read it. Read it.”

“What?” I asked.

“Read it!”

“What?”

“READ IT! FROG!”

Ah, of course. Ribbit.

Words!

Here’s an incomplete list of Cai’s utterances:

achoo, alien, all done, all gone, baa, baby, bag, bagel, ball, banana, bat, bath, bawk bawk (chicken), bean, bed, beep, bell, berry, big, blanket, block, blue, bonk, boo!, book, boots, bounce, bowl, box, bread, bubble, burger, bus, butter, bye bye, candy cane, car, cat, catch, ceiling, cereal, cheerios, cheese, chicken, choo choo, clap, collapse, color, cook, cool, corn, cough cough, cow, crash, crawl, crayon, cup, dada, dance, dark, dog, done, dot, down, drop, duck, eat, eggy, eye, fan, fart, fast, fishy, flip, frog, funny, gah (Granddad), gamma (Gramma), get out (of here), gone, goo (Goose), green, hat, home, honey, in, juice, ketchup, kick, kiss, kitty, knee, la la (singing), light, mama, meat, meow, miss, moo, moon, more, na na (nurse), nap, neck, necklace, neigh, no, nose, off, oh no, okay, on, one, orange, out, pajama, pancake, pants, pasta, peachy, peas, pee, peek, penguin, penis, pig pig, pillow, pink, pizza, please, plum, poke, poop, pop, popcorn, pot, potato, pouch, present, puff, pumpkin, purple, push push, quack quack, rain(ing), raisin, read, red, ring, rip, rock, roll, run, sandwich, Santa, sausage, seat, shake, shirt, shoe, shovel, sink, sir, siren, sit, sleep, slime, slow, small, smoke, snack, snow, snowflake, soap, sock, spin, splash, stairs, star, stir, sun, swim, swim, syrup, table, tap, tea, teeth, Thomas, three, throw, toast, toot, tractor, trash, treat, tree, truck, tummy, tv, tweet tweet, two, uh oh, uncle, up, vroom, wall, want, wash, water, whack, whoa, woga (yogurt), woof (also pant), yeah, yellow, yes, yum (mm), zigzag

We’re not planning on keeping the source spreadsheet up to date, but this is a snapshot of what he sounds like today. Have we mentioned he never stops talking?

And because it was straightforward, here’s a bonus histogram:

18 months

I missed17 months because December!

Christmas was pretty good! Cai got a play kitchen and play food and a rocking chair, and some more trains. And more books! He’s pretty happy with them all.

He had his 18 month appointment, and weighed 23 pounds and 14 ounces and then put his hand on the side of the scale and was recorded as 23 pounds and 11 ounces. Either way, that puts him at 50th percentile for weight. Thirty three and a half inches tall, so he’s about 85th percentile for height. Our tall, skinny dude.

We are working on a compilation of his current words. There are about 220 that came to mind easily, so I’m going to guess the actual number is higher, but we will post them later. These are words he says, not just knows.

He also counts now. Usually one two but sometimes all the way to three. It’s pretty cute. He likes to sing words to songs too. (“Make, make, make some music, now it’s time to stop,” becomes “make make make make STOP!”)

Opposites

This toddler is doing opposites now.

Fast (Fah!) and slow (sooo), up and down, in and out. There’s another, but I’ve forgotten.

Poor dude has his first ear infection and is not a fan of the pink amoxicillin we got for him. I hope he feels better soon. 😦 Maybe someday he’ll be healthy for a major holiday.

16 months

We have completely lost track of his word count.

Notable words: slime, spin, bookeh, sink, baby, yogurt, water, popcorn, bat, spider, punkin, jaws, peek. I’ll remember more later, I’m sure.

16 months has been pretty angry. He’s really getting into the tantrums now, and it’s hard on all of us. Fortunately he’s still pretty easily distractible. All four molars have poked through, but only one is actually fully through.

He’s mostly down to one nap, but he’s been tired this week. Growth spurt?

15 months

I thought perhaps while this toddler was napping might be a good time to get this out!

Cai had his 15 month appointment on the third of October, and he was 22 pounds, 12 ounces and 32 inches long, putting him at 50th percentile for weight and 80th for height. I think he actually weighs a little less, but we stuffed him with home fries that morning (he loves potatoes).

He did have a reaction to one of the vaccines, resulting in a pretty high fever for three days and no sleep for anyone. We would give him Tylenol to treat the fever, all go back to sleep, and then he’d wake up freezing because his temperature had dropped. Ah well.

Yesterday he went on his first pony ride and today he got his first pair of real shoes. They put him in a size seven. Dude’s feet are pretty huge.

He can say “punkin”, wall, sink, Cheerios, yogurt, water, broken, pop pop (popcorn song), and knows what a bunch of animals say, and also what trains, cars, and sirens say. He knows what dusting his pants means.

He also met pigs and turkeys yesterday for the first time.

He loves zucchini and cauliflower and chickpeas and water, and he’s decided orange juice and apple cider aren’t so bad either.

I hear him starting to stir, so!