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YEAR 3, MONTH 2
SEPT 21 – OCT 20 (2016)
COMMUNICATION & COGNITION
- he made up a hand sign for car steering wheels (he puts hands/fingertips together & rotates them back & forth)
- he’ll say “go” when he wants you to move, or when we are going somewhere
- he asks to get out of his crib by saying “es chew” (but we’re not sure what that word is)
- he repeated “boo-boo” (10/5)
- he repeats “Obiwan has taught you well,” one syllable at a time
- loves to say “noway!”
- he counts “two, two, two” as he points to things
- he can repeat all letters of the alphabet
- he repeated the numbers 4-10 (10/9)
- he matched 5 colors with his 2-piece puzzles (i.e. pink > pig, yellow > banana, etc)
- he said “pillow blanket” and “owl” (i.e. he names things in his crib)
- he says “show” for Star Wars movies
- he says “stay” (i.e. he wants to stay at the park)
- we prompt him to say “I need ___.”
- he calls his formula milk “Goppa” (who knows where that came from?!)
- he said “more pancake” & “fresh diaper”
- he repeated “stop” & “no bueno”
- he says/asks for Walla Walla Park (“Walla Walla Pok” or “Walla Walla Walla Walla Pok”)
NEW ABILITIES
- he lifts his leg way up when riding his Globber scooter
- able to climb up on my bed without help (the mattress is high off the floor)
- first time riding his bike a significant distance because he’s finally tall enough (to Washington Park, 9/25)
- he helped take his shirt off
- sliding down a big slide by himself (Lincoln Rock Park, 9/28)
- Todd’s 1st mountain bike ride (1 mile round trip, Horse Lake Reserve)
- he did some jumps with really high knees (10/19)
- doing back floats in the bathtub (10/12)
- we do “art class” with crayons & paper (until he starts to put the crayons in his mouth)
SILLY THINGS
- he imitates the Lego Duplo (phone) game characters when they lick their lips for the ice cream
- laughing hysterically watching a clown burp & barf on an iPad game app (10/8)
- he wanted to strip off his clothes while outside (and it wasn’t very warm out!) (9/24)
DAY TIME ACTIVITIES WITH ERIC
“Stay-At-Home-Dada” (SAHD)
- Rocky Reach Dam (9/21)
- visit Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park (Vantage, WA) (9/23)
- Lincoln Rock Park (9/26)
- Apple Valley Gymnastics (10/17)
- sitting in the Princess car while grocery shopping
- he LOVES to swing at Walla Walla Park
FAMILY ACTIVITIES & DINING OUT
- near Blewitt Pass (9/24)
- 11.85 mile bike ride with trailer on the Apple Capital Loop Trail
- Lincoln Rock Park (9/28)
- riding his bike in the neighborhood & meeting new kids & playing (Castlerock, 9/29)
- dinner at La Fuente (9/30)
- Todd on his bike, Eric & Elisa on foot…Horse Lake Reserve (10/1)
- White Heron Cellars music event (10/1)
- Todd on his bike, Eric & Elisa on foot…Rock Island portion of Apple Capital Loop Trail (10/2)
- went to a baby shower (10/3)
- sitting on parked diggers at Washington elementary school (10/7)
- Rocky Reach Dam & lunch at Cafe Rio (10/8)
- 10 mile bike ride with trailer on the Loop Trail (10/9); and Walla Walla Park
- Todd on his bike, then we went to the Saddle Rock Brewery (10/11)
- 2.5 miles on the north section of the Loop Trail – Todd on his bike & in the stroller (10/15)
- morning at Walla Walla & dinner at La Fuente (10/16)
- evening at Walla Walla Park & dinner at El Porton (10/20)
HEALTH
- 2 year check up with his new doctor (10/5)
- weight = 25 lb + 11.2 oz (18th percentile)
- height = 2 ft + 8″ (4th percentile)
- he got a very mild cold (runny nose, 10/8)
- screening by birth to 3 for his expressive communication (10/10)
- he has a “boo-boo bear” ice pack that he uses when he bonks himself– we put it on the hurt spot, then he gets to lightly bite the ears
DENTISTRY
- spotted his right upper 2nd year molar (9/28)
- spotted his left bottom 2nd year molar (10/2)
- that’s tooth #17 & tooth #18
- Dentist appointment (10/10)
FOOD NOTES
- loves corn on the cob
- he ate carrot pieces in coleslaw & wanted more (9/27)
- interested in eating pancakes for breakfast again (no blueberries but with a smear of sunflower butter & a drizzle of maple syrup)
DAY TIME NAPS
- status quo…see last month!
- he likes to throw all his stuff out of this crib
NIGHT TIME SLEEP
- he woke up crying in the night ZERO times this month…YAY!
- status quo…sleeps ~9 hrs per night (roughly ~9 PM to 6 AM)
- most nights before bed, he takes a bath
- our night time routine: we read books together in the glider chair, then Todd decides when to get down. He runs out to see Eric, then Eric puts him in his crib
- he doesn’t like to keep his socks on
- when I lie down on the floor next to his crib at night, he likes to pile everything from his crib on me…then takes back his pillow blanket(s) and a “fuzzy” (the word I use with Todd for blanket)
- he wanted his “Hooper Humperdink?..Not Him!” book in his crib with him (10/10)…then a few days later, when he had it in bed with him during a nap, he ripped up several pages 😀
POTTY TALK
- he does most poops in the toilet (he tells us when) and some pees in the toilet (we take him)
- he had a streak when he told us he had to go poo-poo 5 days/times in a row (accurately!)