Seriously. I blinked, and missed a month of blogging. I suppose it's not the end of the world, but now my brain is scrambling to figure out exactly what I have already forgotten. (And this picture is a few weeks old, but I couldn't NOT post it... one of my favorites...)Here's the cliff notes of this past month in Daniel's life...
His vocabulary is exploding - well past the "average" vocabulary for his age, he has combined sign language (thank you, preschool) with words to communicate very effectively. His favorite word/sign: "more". For a little man who loves to eat, this word is essential. He caught me off guard late in his 14th month by finishing his dinner and looking up at me, saying and signing the word "more". He signs please, eat, thank you (kind of), milk, and more. He says diaper, ba ba, no-na (zona), more, blue, purple, apple (mah-pull), cracker (crack-oooo), uva (vah-oooo), milk, max (mah), book (boh), mama, dada, car (cah), ball, balloon (bah-oooo), agua, and a few more I can't think of right now.
The latest word? "No". That one happened yesterday... I believe we're entering a whole new era ...
Along with new words, the babbling has shifted into high gear - he sounds like a little asian dude. We don't speak chinese, but his babbling sure sounds like he's fluent! Inflections, run on sentences, etc. It's the cutest thing ever.
His last appointment put him in 90% percentile (weight) and 95% percentile (height). He's still a big boy... very strong and... sturdy :) Fernando and his dad nicknamed him the mini-Hulk - he is built like an oak and loves to wrestle, run, tackle, throw, and otherwise exert every ounce of energy during every minute of playtime.
Aside from his daunting physical prowess, he is still extremely polite and helpful. (I know, he's not two yet...) When we sing the clean up song, he hurries to help. When he finds a piece of garbage, he brings it right to us. When we ask him to sit down to put shoes on, he does it.
He loves of reading continues to grow - every evening, when we're cleaning up from dinner, we suddenly realize Daniel is missing. And every evening, we find him in his little toy corner, sitting in a pile of books, reading them to himself. In Chinese. :) And every night at bedtime, we read a piece of his Bible (Genesis and Exodus have never been so fun) and then our favorite, "Goodnight Moon". And speaking of sleep, he has become a blanket afficionado. He loves them - loves playing with them and especially sleeping with them (which is exactly how I was as a kid).
Potty-training is still a ways off, but last week Daniel started notifying us when he needs to be changed - he either says "poo poo" or "diaper" (bah-per :) and points us to the changing table. It's not consistent yet, but it's definitely really early for a boy to start noticing diaper issues!
It's still more fun every day - we haven't hit a stage yet that we don't like. We are about to enter a new era in the life of Daniel - he will be an older brother sometime next year! We have officially begun the process of adopting a baby from Ethiopia! We'll have a blog up and running for that adventure too (in case you'd like to follow along). For now, I'll just say that we felt ready for a second baby, but that biological wasn't the way we were supposed to go this time. We couldn't be more excited about this next adventure in building our family - and we know that Daniel will be an amazing big brother!
More details coming soon, I promise!
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