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Little Dean is 17 months old today! One more month until he moves out of the baby room at daycare, for which he is SUPER excited! He gets SO mad when he can't go play with the big kids!At 17 months he:- Wears sizes 18 months, 24 months and 2T
- Wears size 6 shoes and size 4 diapers
- Runs all the time!
- LOVES to climb up on anything, but is afraid to step off the wii fit without help.
- Calls dad "dad" and me "da" (how annoying is that!)
- Says "ball, owl, bye, eye, hi"
- Can identify all the parts of his face (particularly nose)
- Can sort of use a spoon and fork, but always goes back to fingers.
- Loves to slurp up noodles
- If you say bumble bee he says "bumble bee" and waves his finger around to get you to sing the bumble bee song. (It's really very cute!)
- "Sings" along with the radio
- Dances to any song he hears
- Is trying to figure out jumping, but hasn't quite got it yet.
- Loves any kind of buttons.
- Understands lots of commands, and is starting to figure out "NO"
This Friday was the final day of the Christmas Storybook land, and since our attempts to go last weekend were foiled by a little ice, we had to go then. We met Grandma & Grandpa at the fairgrounds at about 6:15 (not knowing that it didn't actually open until 6:30) which was a good thing, because there was already a line!There are Christmas trees with lights making a path through the building, and scenes from various story books set up to look at, they also have a big section with teddy bears doing all kinds of things, and some huge model train sets, and a victorian doll house version of town. My personal favorite part is the smell of all the Christmas trees!At the entrance to the path there were 2 life sized toy soldiers, and I thought that that would be the end of our trip. Dean saw them and started to freak out, but I whisked him past, and we skillfully avoided any other life sized characters. It took him a few minutes to relax after the scary statues, but once we got to the Frosty the Snowman station, he started to point and laugh and "What's That?" to everything again. He loved watching the trains and the teddy bears and pointed at everything. We decided not to risk a trip to Santa, plus it was getting late and the line was long, and we were still going to go eat (Dean also had his first public meltdown, Grandma & Grandpa were shocked!).
DH and I have fairly different ideas about what D is and isn't allowed to do. When he is home with me I let him run around the house, but I go along with him to make sure he stays out of things he shouldn't be into. DH tries to blockade him into the living room so we can keep an eye on him. Dean at this point can climb over anything we use to blockade the living room with ease. This causes lots of "angst" between DH and I, particularly when I'm trying to cook dinner.To solve one of the main problems of D going into our bathroom where all the cat stuff is DH brought home a gate, hoping that the cats could fit through but the kid could not. To help our old blind cat get in and out he set the gate about 5 inches above the ground.Once it was all set up D and I went to check it out. At first he was MAD that he couldn't get into our room, but it took just a moment for him to lay flat on the floor, turn his head, and wiggle under the gate. Then he sat (on the far side of the gate) grinning at us. I haven't laughed so hard in a very long time!
After school D and I often have snack. He enjoys goldfish (plain, no cheese allowed) and even more than the goldfish themselves he likes to share with (feed them to) mommy. Cute, neh?
