And we are back! Thank you folks for sticking with us through that short five month intermission. I used to be pretty good about updating this little diary of our life and then I went to work and struggled keeping up. Well then my son became very mobile and I found myself looking up the password just to get in this freaking thing to tell my story. This little post sat in draft mode for over a week before posting. With the holidays approaching and lots to do I just couldn't let the last five months go without notice. For again, our son and reached some major milestones and we have entered into a whole to world of Toddler-hood. We have a tiny little tot residing in our home. Our bouncing baby boy is now literally bouncing, and running, and talking, and shouting, and dancing, and we have never had so much fun!
Over the last five months, our little Sam has been a busy little bee. He has added so many words to his little vocabulary and we're beginning the long challenging road of communication. Most days it is really making my life much easier. He's signed his first baby sign when he was out of milk: "More?". Luckily he says the word and signs so there is no question to me what he wants but others may dissagree if you're not with him every day. It's just that I have been drilling those signs in his head for the past year so you can imagine the joy I felt the first day he raised his arms in the air to tell me he was "All Done" with dinner and instead of whining and lauching pee's overboard. He's quickly learning how to boss Doggie around too as he points and says "Goooo! Weigh Dooooooown". This week he has discoved what Up & Down means which becomes an exhausting little game. A week went by when we were pretty sure he was saying shit but we did our best not to acknowledge that silly sound and it quickly resided.
Someone has also discovered that there is a little something that lies between his two little legs that he can pull and makes him giggle. One evening I let him run around naked to try and get some air to a diaper rash. Big mistake. He ran in circles around the kitchen table holding his "pee-pee" and would stop to spred his legs and show it to me while he pulled on it and laughed some more. It is the first thing he looks for after entering the tub, and the first thing he looks for every morning when we get dressed. He's also discovered that there are two nostrils on his face that his fingers fit in and one day pulled it out with a little surprise. He spent the next four days digging for gold and just waiting to show mommy what treasures he could find. This little boy loves nothing more to explore every little nook and cranny of every little object, room, and body part he can get his hands on. I think I may get more excited to wake up each day and see what he finds. As long as it's not boogers.
My little pooper is becoming a big boy. Now on to Discipline 101. I made Brant go with me to Discipline meeting held by our Parents As Teachers goup whom I love more than ever. It's my safe place where I can go and say with an honest face, "So when I say to my son that it is not nice to hit mommy, he then slaps me in the face again and giggles, what is the best way to react"? and people take me seriously. You can't exactly put a 1 year old in time out and expect him to stay there. You can't really have an intelligent conversation to explain why it is not nice. To that point you can read so many books like "To Spank or Not to Spank" or "What Your Child Really Knows about No" and the list goes on and on and millions of opinions. It's way more overwelming than safety proofing a home. There are days that I think I've taken in so many opinions that I can't even keep them straight. At first when he would slap me I would hear 20 peoples voices run through my head in the next 20 seconds, get completly confused and wind up looking at him and saying "Shit". In summary Discipline in my head is comparible to the world of Photoshop and there are so many tactics and programs and viewpoints out there that I'm not sure what direction to turn. So it's a learning experience. On that note stayed tuned as I'm sure we will have many many many more interesting stories to tell in the near future.....and onto some recent footage. Sorry for the lack of editing, just trying to make it easy....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLTfu253ao4
