here he is giving his "camera smile" for mommy & daddy. this craigslist seller only wanted $25 for an 10 gallon bin filled with train stuff. cool deal!
he started playing with cars & tools in the last month...not just numbers and letters, puzzles and blocks.
it is really amazing at the age of two, what they are able to remember. as someone that wasn't interested in kids 5 years ago, i thought toddlers were these semi-developed, spaced-out, unaware neanderthal babies. ha ha... how wrong i was. by the time thomas was 15 months, he already knew how to "disobey" us when we told him to stay on the bed for naps. he would take a step or two, and as soon as i would say "get back on the bed", he would scurry back to the edge of the bed. crazy! *sigh* wow, i can't believe my eyes now. we have said to each other many times that we got the fully-functional toddler version, not b/c thomas is any more special than all of those special babies out there, but b/c their little brains really do pick up fast how to swindle and cajole and sweet-talk you.
in the last 2 months, he has changed a lot but it has been hard to keep up with it. i want to document more, but like ethan's mom said, you want to at least post blogs that are coherent. i ramble enough as it is. i think i will post as much as i can in the next week. again more to document stuff he has done in the last month or new things that have been happening in thomas' brain. of course, he loves to imitate and he talks a lot more now. last weekend, william lifted him high up and he caught some air. on his way down, thomas said "too high. too high." sooo funny...
one of the more notable things is that he finally as selected a "lovey." many of the other children i know have some favorite stuffed animal or blanket or binkie that comforts them when they feel the need to cling. thomas likes teddy bear too, but as you can see elmo is definitely the preferred item. bear is just something for the other arm. one morning, he ID'ed him as bear, placing that picture card on him. william happened to catch that on camera, along with another fake smile.
almost every time he wakes up alone, the 1st thing he looks for is elmo. then he comes looking for us. it is so cute, going up the stairs when i hear him stirring from his nap, to see him standing at his doorway, cheeks all flushed, clutching elmo. half the time, i nap too. i usually awake to his little feet pattering across the hallway. and then he appears at the side of my bed with elmo. so CUTE!
he also has finally moved beyond ABC and 123 books. for a good 6-7 months, the books he always pulled out, both at home and at the library were letter and number books. i always tried to read him simple story books, but after a couple pages he would realize that there were no big # or letters. very authoritatively get another book for me to read. he currently likes the children's classic: "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie." i think i am going to try "Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse" next. that was one of my favorites when i was a tot.
one last series of pics to end this very long post - thomas doing "i've been working on the railroad". whenever he hears that song on one of his toys, he runs around to find his railroad hat. he puts it on, usually crooked, and starts to get down with it. little arms going like train wheels. he loves music and dancing!
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I knew I missed it!!!! It didn't dawn on me that Thomas' birthday had already past until this morning when we were at church and Valerie asked me how old he was... and then I realized that he's already 2!!! Happy belated birthday Thomas!!! =) Sara had fun playing with you this morning while your mommy and I rehearsed for our mommy rock band. ^_^
Another chapter in Thomas-ville has passed. Each evening we've been falling asleep together (me in his room) for almost a year now. I used to use this time to chat with him and recite the alphabets or numbers. It was nice and consistent.
These days, after being in the dark for about 20 minutes, I'd get up and tell him I'll be outside the den reading a book and asks him if he wants the door open/closed. He usually says closed and proceeds to turn his head away. After that, he's out in 15-30 minutes.
So sadly, he no longer wants me in the room anymore and I no longer have to be "held down" until 9:30pm or 10:00pm.
All that fearing/paranoia about Thomas not being able to detach himself from me having to be in the same room went away within a day, kind of like how Sara decided one day the binky is no longer hip.
I tell ya, they'll U-turn on a dime so enjoy whatever silly things they might be doing now because next month it could be all over and you'd have to rely on memory (or videos)...
You're so right William! We were fretting so much about Sara's attachment to her binky and stressed about her getting crooked teeth and all.. then just like that it broke and she was surprisingly okay with it. Vijay said that he thinks he had a harder time with Sara's binky breaking than she did. She was attached to it for soo long that it became this symbol of her babyness. Now she's 2 and no longer a baby! ;_;
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