"Helping" Daddy!

Steps

Dean loves to go up and down steps, including the 2 steps to get up into our house, but normally he waits until I'm there to hold my hand and step up. He barely holds my hand, and could easily do it on his own, but I guess he liked the security :)
Yesterday, however, he went up both steps all on his own!! Such a big boy!

Wordless Wednesday

More funny things

Dean has recently become very interested in cars, or "vroom-vroom" and in trains, or "tchoo-tchoo" (the way he says it is much more like tutu than choo-choo). Last night after school we had to sit and watch the train for about 5 minutes before we could say bye-bye to the train. He got some cars from a friend of ours this weekend and now insists upon sleeping with them (what a cuddley lovey, no?)
He also loves to go outside, and says "side" when he either wants to go out, or sees the outside in a book. He can now say bubbles as well, and so asks to blow bubbles ALL the time! He tries to blow them occasionally, but mostly just likes to chase them around.

20 Months!

Dean is 20 months old now! At 20 months ***he has started repeating all kinds of words, though if you ask him "can you say grammy? or can you say egg?" he'll often just look at you and say "Yes"***He still loves to run and climb on EVERYTHING!***He knows most of the animals in Goodnight Gorilla, although he calls the armadillo "uh-oh" and if you ask him what the gorilla says he puts his finger to his lips and says "shhh" That's a fun grocery store game!***He wears size 5 diapers, size 6 shoes, and his clothes are either 24months or 2T***He loves to eat, if breakfast isn't ready when he gets to school he is MAD***He calls every drink apple juice, and will say "more juice" when he runs out***He loves to wear hats, particularly his dad's***He says uppa and then down when he wants up and down***He asks to blow bubbles by pretending to blow a bubble at me***He loves to throw balls and play "catch"***He knows all the parts of his face, and likes to point at our faces and say "eyes, nose, mouth"***

OMSI

Last week we had the chance to go to OMSI with a colleague of mine to check out the space exhibit. The space section wasn't quite as informative as we had hoped, but the T Rex, Sampson was really amazing! It's hard to imagine something that large running around. (And to compare that to Buddy on Dinosaur Train :)
D had a great time at the science playground, especially playing with the ball tubes; particularly the one that blew air up into his face. He went into the sand box for about 5 seconds and had enough of that.
After spending too much money at the store, and getting a great book about Quantum Entanglement and some dinosaur souvieners, we went for a delish lunch of pad thai. The server at Som Tum Thai was awesome, she brought Dean his own bowl of soup when she saw he was eating mine.
After lunch we went and saw Starry nights at the planetarium, which was also interesting. Who knew there were so many satellites orbiting earth!?! D was great, I thought he'd fall asleep once the lights went out, but he fought it and stayed awake looking at the stars. All in all we had a great day!

19 Months!

At 19 Months D: Loves to play and be silly, and make mommy & daddy laugh. He climbs up on Everything, particularly the dishwasher lid (NOT good!) He is talking more, and is getting much better about saying what he wants, though he's still not super verbal. "No & Mine" though are 2 words he uses quite a lot. He is learning how to jump (sometimes he falls over backwards though). He can say the ee-i-e-i-o part of Old Macdonald. He is a huge eater, and loves whatever I have on my plate, particularly avacado "ado". He just moved into size 5 diapers, and wears mostly 24 month clothes with the occasional 2T also. He has size 6 shoes, and LOVES to run around in them.

He goes to the garage to look for daddy if he is not in the house (even if he's still at work), and likes to find the Moon when we get home from school. He loves to watch Elmo on Sesame Street, but is scared of the Elmo Live in the living room. He weighs about 25 pounds and is about 34 inches tall.