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Todd at 2 years, 9 1/2 months old – June 2, 2017
YEAR 3, MONTH 10
MAY 21, 2017 – JUN 20, 2017
TODD SAID…
- “got frog in throat”
- “happy birthday” (Who? We don’t know)
- “I go go go there” (while looking at pictures of himself at the Everett Children’s Museum)
- “a long, long time ago”
- “nice butt” (he said it to both of us separately)
- “Ee new” (Eli) & “as sigh” (Ashley)
May 22, 2017
ASKING QUESTIONS
- he exaggerates the up-inflection in his voice at the end of questions
- he said:
- “what happened there?” (he asks about pictures in books)
- “are doing washing?”
- “are doing running?” (to a mannequin at Alberg’s)
EXPRESSING FEELINGS
- he said:
- “I love this guy called Pillow Bear”
- “I love you” (he said it back to me)
- “a little nervous”
- “I’m frustrated”
- “I’m so mad”
- “I sleep, I wake up, I say hi Eli, Ashley, Karin, Jason, grandma, grandpa. I love them”
- “I do” (he draws out ‘do’ & does a cute up-inflection in his voice); he said that when I asked him if he wanted to hold my hand
“Art class” – June 14, 2017
INDOOR FUN
- playing lightsabers with Eric
- jumping off the speaker
- blowing bubbles on the deck
- dancing to the Batman movie intro
- watching favorite shows
- the occasional “art class” (i.e., painting)
Playing lightsabers – May 25, 2017
May 26, 2017
Balance! – June 15, 2017
THE JOY OF SPRINKLERS
- running through sprinklers & playing with a neighbor boy (Wyatt)
All wet – May 22, 2017
May 22, 2017
May 22, 2017
May 22, 2017
MORE WATER
June 14, 2017
ANIMAL FRIENDS
Todd & Seven – May 22, 2017
Todd & Seven -June 14, 2017
SHOPPING
- Todd loves to shop!
- “I sleep. I wake up. I go get police car. Dada good guy. I go get red car Wal-mart.” (talking about the car shopping carts)
- we waited for the “black car” (car shopping cart) to be available to ride around in at Fred Meyer
- Todd’s 1st mask…in what becomes a large collection! (5/23)
- he says:
- “that’s too much pay” (he points to things in the Target catalog)
May 22, 2017
May 23, 2017
RIVERFRONT ROCK GYM
WALLA WALLA POINT PARK
Eric & Todd – May 21, 2017
June 3, 2017
June 9, 2017
June 9, 2017
APPLE VALLEY GYMNASTICS
- open gym
- Eric tried to break some sort of fall by stucking his foot out, but this ironically caused injury to Todd’s nose (5/22)
Todd’s nose vs. Eric’s toe – May 22, 2017
June 5, 2017
WENATCHEE RIVERFRONT RAILWAY
- riding the mini train (5/27, 6/3, 6/18)
- jumping in the dirt pile by the mini train tracks (6/16)
Family selfie on the mini train – May 27, 2017
June 3, 2017
June 16, 2017
June 16, 2017
June 16, 2017
OHME GARDENS
- exploring Ohme Gardens (5/24, 5/29)
Ohme Gardens – May 24, 2017
Elisa & Todd at Ohme Gardens – May 29, 2017
May 29, 2017
May 29, 2017
ROTARY PARK
Todd at Rotary Park – May 31, 2017
HIKING – LAKE CLARA
- part of Lake Clara trail (with Eric, 6/6)
- he said, “careful, Todd” while hiking downhill
- Lake Clara (Todd hiked the full 2.68 mile round trip) (6/11)
- during hikes Todd likes throwing sticks & rocks and he runs and jumps down the trails
Lake Clara trail – June 6, 2017
Lake Clara hike, Elisa & Todd – June 11, 2017
June 11, 2017
June 11, 2017
June 11, 2017
June 11, 2017
HIKING – SQUILCHUCK STATE PARK
- Squilchuck State Park (2.35 mile loop) (6/14)
Todd hiking at Squilchuck State Park – June 14, 2017
MOUNTAIN BIKING – SQUILCHUCK STATE PARK
- mountain biking (5/28)
Elisa & Todd at Squilchuck State Park – May 28, 2017
Eric & Todd – May 28, 2017
May 28, 2017
May 28, 2017
BIKING – LEAVENWORTH
- Eric took Todd biking (6/08)
June 8, 2017
FIRST BIKE RACE
- Leavenworth Bike ‘N Juice bike race (6/10)
- he did a 2-lap race without help (there was an uphill section!)
- he got to check out fire trucks & gear
- one firefighter agreed to put his gear on for Todd
Bike ‘N Juice – June 10, 2017
THE POOL IS OPEN!
- swim at condo pool (5/27, 5/29, 5/31, 6/2, 6/7, 6/18, 6/20)
- he pretty much picked up his water skills where he left off (last Fall)
- when he jumps from the deck he really sinks to the bottom! (I wait for him to surface to ‘catch’ him)
- ‘dolphin’ diving underwater, holding his breath & doing assisted back floats (6/20)
- he says:
- “I’m so excited pool!”
May 27, 2017
May 27, 2017
June 20, 2017
June 20, 2017
AVIATION DAY – PANGBORN
- Aviation Day at Pangborn (6/17)
- Todd liked sitting in the cars/trucks & planes
Aviation Day – June 17, 2017
June 17, 2017
OTHER ACTIVITIES THIS MONTH
- road bike ride with Todd in the trailer (5/21)
- visiting Elisa’s friend, Dwight, at the Apple Capital swim meet (6/4)
- end of year party for Elisa’s work; Todd liked playing downstairs with Sadie & outside on the deck with Emily’s girls (6/6)
- playing at Washington Elementary & Washington Park
- outdoor BBQ where we live
June 16, 2017
MISC
- he does not like having his hair brushed; he says, “I don’t like it”
- he sits calmly when getting teeth brushed..yay! (Eric asks him if he wants it done ‘hard or soft,’ so he chooses soft!)
- we signed Todd up for 2 day/wk preschool (will start in September) & a 4-day dinosaur camp (in July)
Todd & Pillow Bear – June 1, 2017
FOOD & DINING OUT
- Pizza – Riverfront Rock Gym (5/21), Lemolo (6/4, 6/18), Saddle Rock Pub & Brewery (6/16)
- Dining out – El Porton (5/23, 6/1), Munchen Haus (6/10)
- he crunched on whole cumin seeds
- Food-related things he said:
- “I want apple juice with ice cubes in it”
Saddle Rock Pub & Brewery – May 27, 2017
Vegan pizza! – May 27, 2017
Saddle Rock Pub & Brewery – June 16, 2017
DAY TIME NAPS
- he naps for up to 3 hours starting at ~2 PM
June 15, 2017
NIGHT TIME SLEEP
- bedtime gets later in summer (i.e., into the 10 PM hour)…so wake up time in the morning is later (into the 7 AM hour); his 9-hour night time sleep continues
- he loves being read to before bed & I lie down next to his crib as he falls asleep (as usual)
- he woke up in the night 10 times this month
- 4:30 AM (5/21)
- 2:30 AM (5/23)
- ~2:45 AM (5/24)
- 2:30 AM (5/30)
- 2:30 AM (6/3)
- 3:40 AM (6/7); it took an hour for him to get back asleep
- ~4:00 AM (6/10)
- ~4:00 AM (6/11)
- ~4:30 AM (6/17)
- 12:00 AM & 3:50 AM (6/20); it was very hot inside, so hard to sleep
- typically he goes back to sleep quickly after drinking a Goppa
POTTY TALK
- this month he started wearing underwear outside of the house (i.e., not a pull up!)
- he wears diaper only for naps & night time sleep!
- “want diaper off, it have full pee pee in it”
- he took off his own underwear to go pee (5/25)
Todd at 2 years, 9 1/2 months – May 3, 2017
YEAR 3, MONTH 9
APR 21, 2017 – MAY 20, 2017
THINGS TODD SAID…
- “Got frog in mouth” (when he coughed)
- “Stay here all night” (when he doesn’t want to leave a place)
- “Oh, come on” (when he was looking for soap in the tub)
- “Hang on rope, jump in water…grandpa” (while thinking about a video of my dad doing a zip line into the water in Kauai)
- “I go with you” (when I leave for work)
- “Excuse me” (sounds like “coo me”)
- “yes” (in addition to “ah yeah”)
- “I’m big boy”
- “probably” – e.g., “I probably go to Washington Park”
- “Ooh, shake”
Washington Park – May 17, 2017
QUESTIONS
- “What happened?” (when Eric was lying on the couch a different way than usual)
- “right?” (at the end of sentences, like “I not barf, right?” & “I go outside, right?”)
- “What doing?” (he exaggerates the up inflection)
EXPRESSING HIS FEELINGS
- “I love a lot of people” (he said after watching a Daniel Tiger episode about family); “I love grandpa & grandma”
- he said, “I’m mad.” Eric asked him why, then he said, “I’m mad…mama not here”
- he said, “I love this brown guy” (a picture in his Target catalog)
- “kid in pipe scare you” (the scene when Augustus Gloop goes through the tube on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)
- “I’m so cozy” (wrapped in purple fuzzy blanket)
April 27, 2017
Wearing Eric’s glasses – May 17, 2017
ANIMAL FRIEND
- he loves to visit the neighbor cat, “Seven”
April 23, 2017
Todd with “Seven” – May 9, 2017
May 9, 2017
May 9, 2017
INDOOR FUN
- playing with his new T-ball set
- playing “lightsabers” with Eric (using Vitamix blender plungers)
- he said:
- “I lost this light saber, darn it”
- “Please put goggles on and one glove” (to Eric, who puts them on to play lightsabers)
- “I’m baseball player”
- “Please grab me” (he said to Eric while playing)
- “I’m going for it” (he said while crawling across the back/top of the couch)
- “Do this some day” (he said about Danny McCallister doing some crazy-amazing things on his bike on a YouTube video)
- “I’m crazy man ’round here”
May 5, 2017
OUTDOOR PLAY
- kicking the soccer ball & jumping off big rocks
- watching various bugs
April 28, 2017
April 28, 2017
April 28, 2017
April 29, 2017
May 8, 2017
Todd riding his Globber through puddle – May 13, 2017
PUDDLE JUMPING
- he loves puddle jumping!
- he said, “I’m in guk puddle” (a really oily spot in the parking lot we always tell him to avoid!)
May 3, 2017
May 12, 2017
May 12, 2017
VISIT FROM MY PARENTS
- my parents came to visit Thur 4/20 to Mon 4/24
- Dining out: dinner at El Porton (4/20); lunch at The Hunter’s Wife Health Bar (4/22); dinner at India House (4/22)
- things we did with them:
- Horse Lake trail (4/21); (we also went there 4/30)
- Apple Valley Gymnastics (4/22)
- Apple Capital Loop Trail, Pybus market (4/22)
- Riverfront Rock Gym (4/22)
- Mission Ridge rope tow (4/23)
Horse Lake Trail – April 21, 2017
Todd with Elisa’s parents – April 21, 2017
Elisa’s parents, Eric & Todd at Horse Lake trail viewpoint – April 21, 2017
The Hunter’s Wife Health Bar – April 22, 2107
April 22, 2017
Car show at Pybus Market – April 22, 2017
Todd in Pybus Market – April 22, 2017
RIVERFRONT ROCK GYM
Riverfront Rock Gym – April 22, 2017
April 22, 2017
May 11, 2017
May 16, 2017
MISSION RIDGE – SKIING
- skiing MR (4/23, 4/29)
- he said:
- “this guy made road for you” (when he watched a movie that we took of the groomer working at the rope tow area)
MISSION RIDGE – PUDDLE JUMPING
Mission Ridge Ski Area – April 23, 2017
April 23, 2017
April 23, 2017
April 23, 2017
ICE SKATING
- 1st time on ice skates (5/12)
- he said, “I go skate. See what happens.”
- he tried to get down on the ground to eat the ice…so that was the end of that activity
May 12, 2017
May 12, 2017
WALLA WALLA POINT PARK
- he says:
- “I seek Walla Walla park!”
- he loves to swing while listening “new Luke” (Star Wars Imperial March, Audiodrome Remix)
- he climbs the rock
- he loves to throw rocks in the river
Walla Walla Point Park – April 25, 2017
Todd’s favorite swing – May 3, 2017
May 3, 2017
May 3, 2017
May 4, 2017
WENATCHEE RIVERFRONT RAILWAY
- riding the mini train (4/29, 5/6)
Riverfront Railway – April 29, 2017
Elisa & Todd – April 29, 2017
Elisa & Todd – April 29, 2017
Todd imitates the monkey’s mouth – April 29, 2017
May 6, 2017
Eric & Todd on the mini train – May 6, 2017
WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY
- riding his Globber scooter and new razor scooter
- playing on the playground equipment & in the grass
April 26, 2017
May 4, 2017
May 10, 2017
Todd on his razor scooter – May 20, 2017
May 20, 2017
May 20, 2017
Charged! – May 20, 2017
PIONEER SKATE PARK
Pioneer Park – April 28, 2017
April 28, 2017
Pioneer Skate Park – May 5, 2017
May 5, 2017
CASHMERE PARK
Swinging in Cashmere – May 19, 2017
TOUCH-A-TRUCK
- Touch-A-Truck (5/13)
Touch-A-Truck – May 13, 2017
May 13, 2017
MOUNTAIN BIKING – SQUILCHUCK STATE PARK
- Todd’s 1st time mountain biking (5/10)
- Mother’s Day ride (5/14)
- he said:
- “I like many” (bikes) and “I like many kinds”
Squilchuck State Park – May 10, 2017
May 10, 2017
May 10, 2017
Eric & Todd at Squilchuck State Park – May 14, 2017
Elisa & Todd – May 14, 2017
Family selfie – May 14, 2017
Todd & Eric -May 14, 2017
Of course this is a slide! – May 14, 2017
FOOD NOTES & DINING OUT
- Dinners out: Fonda Oaxaquena (4/28), El Porton (5/12, 5/19)
- Pizza eating: Saddle Rock Pub & Brewery (5/6), Riverfront Rock Gym (5/16)
- Food-related things he said…
- “I need goppa, I need fridge, I go get them” and he walks to fridge for goppa
- “it be delicious” (about chocolate)
Eating frozen blueberries – May 1, 2017
Saddle Rock Pub & Brewery – April 29, 2017
Saddle Rock Pub & Brewery – May 6, 2017
May 6, 2017
DAY TIME NAPS
- no change from prior months
- he naps up to 3 hours starting between 1 & 2 PM
- he gets all hyper, runs laps around the condo, and likes throwing his diaper when Eric tries to get him ready for naps (or bedtime)
May 7, 2017
NIGHT TIME SLEEP
- he woke up in the night 7x this month
- woke up 2:30 AM (4/25)
- woke up 3:30 AM (4/27)
- woke up 2:00 AM “need hold mama hand” (4/28)
- woke up 2:00 AM (5/3)
- woke up 1:30 AM crying for “boo boo bear” but went right back to sleep (5/7)
- woke up ~2 AM; at 5:30 AM he said, “something scary out there…Gruffalo” (5/8)
- woke up ~2:30 AM & he took a long time to fall back asleep (5/9)
- woke up 4:20 AM (5/18)
- in the morning after a night when he cried & woke up, he talked about “red guy” & “brown guy” & “crash bike”
- he said:
- “come here” (when he first wakes up in the morning)
- “it’s scary out there” [when he woke up; he pointed to the window & said it was “brown guy” & “red guy” (from Room on the Broom)
- “I want mama phone in this bed” (right when he woke up in the morning)
May 19, 2017
POTTY TALK
- Eric asked him “what are you waiting for” (re: doing a pee on the potty) & he said, “grandma & grandpa”
- he likes to read his “poo poo book” when he sits on the toilet (poo-poo book= Target ’16 holiday catalog)
- he said, “I tooted”
- he’s learning how to use public bathrooms with Eric
Learning how to use public bathrooms – May 8, 2017
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