Ted is fifteen months old
Posted by Patrick on June 30th, 2009
After Kate’s comprehensive mid-month report, I’m just going to let the pictures do the talking in this month’s monthaversery posting.
Five Years!
Posted by Patrick on June 26th, 2009Hard to believe its been five years since we got hitched! That’s 1,826 days, for those keeping track.
I didn’t know what marriage would be like when this photo was taken*, but I can’t imagine not being married to Kate now. Its been good times, and I feel like one lucky guy.
*Also, this photo totally makes me want to shave my beard.
Ted Steals My Breakfast
Posted by Patrick on June 21st, 2009Yesterday morning, in an act of breakfasty defiance, Ted swiped my bagel when I wasn’t looking. Not only did he steal it, he proceded to eat almost a quarter of it while we video chatted with Auntie Kristen.
“Nom-nom-nom”
Museum of Life and Science
Posted by Katherine on June 19th, 2009
Visiting the cow, goats, donkey, turkey, and more at the farm yard.
Playing music at Loblolly Park.
They had all kinds of drums and bells for Ted to play.
My favorite part of the museum was the Magic Wings Butterfly House.
Ted enjoyed the Gentle Zone of the Play to Learn part of the museum. They had a section just for kids his age to run free and play with all kinds of age appropriate toys and a little house with stairs and a slide just his size. His favorite part was a ball track on the wall, where he was figuring out gravity.
Fourteen Point Five Months Old
Posted by Katherine on June 17th, 2009Ted is signing fish, milk, more, book, dog, cat, and all done. He seems to be getting a little better at only signing milk when he wants it instead of any time I say it, which wasn’t very helpful. He is still ironing out the details of the cat sign. Sometimes he jabs his cheek and sometimes he kind of grabs his ear, but he is trying. The sign for cat is to draw whiskers on your cheek, pretty tricky.
The other day he said fish a bunch of times- without the f, but with the signing and the pointing to the goldfish container it was pretty clear what he wanted. He still says car to mean pretty much any vehicle with wheels from tractors to trucks.
He says ee-igh ee-igh oh and pretty much uses that term to sum up the whole farmyard scene. He says it when he brings me the plastic farmer and when he brings me books about farms. For a while he was really stumped by the “oh” part and would say ee-igh ee-igh da da da da or some other mumble. Weird because he has no trouble saying uh oh, which he says a lot.
He can make the hee haw sound a donkey makes and the eee eee eee that a monkey makes. He still says baa for most of the other animals, except for the llama of course. He knows what noise the lamma makes. He says Da Da a lot. And yesterday when he heard Pat’s key in the door, he turned and shouted “Dad!” For some reason if you ask him to say mom or dad, he refuses. I suppose he doesn’t understand the question… Perhaps he is trying to think up the noise that a mom or dad makes…
He babbles a lot. It really sounds like he is talking, but in a different language. Frequently if you ask him to repeat something he will respond with the right number of syllables, so it sounds like he is answering. He just doesn’t have the right letters yet.
He does the hand movements for Itsy Bitsy Spider. It is a favorite and he asks for it a lot. He still loves to give high fives too and if he gives one high five he looks around to make sure that everyone gets one.
He loves dancing. If he hears a few seconds of music he will stop what he is doing and dance to it. He is always coming up with new moves and really gets his whole body into it. He waves his arms, stomps his feet, squats down and wiggles his butt, turns in a circle, etc. Sometimes he dances to a song in his head. He will be eating dinner and start swinging his arms to a rhythm or walking towards something and turn and do a spin on the way there.
Lately his favorite books are Happy Baby Animals and the I Spy books. He points to the pictures and I tell him what they are and what noises they make. Reading to him these days feels more like we are cramming for a test than actual story time. Other favorites are At the Construction Site, Big Red Barn and of course, Old MacDonald Had a Farm.
I took him in the community pool last week. It was the first time he had been in a full size pool. He seemed pretty nervous about it and just kind of clung to me. So I sang to him and slow danced him around the shallow end. And then he fell asleep. In the pool.
Road Trip
Posted by Patrick on June 11th, 2009Last weekend we packed up the car and headed out west to visit our aunts. They live in western NC and run the Forks of Ivy blog. They just built a new house with a great view of the surrounding area. It was nice to get away from suburbia for a few days, and nice to see our now in-state family!
Ted had a great time - he enjoyed running around and dancing and hanging with his fam.
We went for a short hike on the Blue Ridge Parkway, too.
And there were pancakes! Delicous fresh pancakes that Ted gobbled right up. Ted prefers locally ground pancake-mix we think. He was very well behaved the entire weekend.
Can’t wait for our next trip out there!
Ted Dancing (no relation to Ted Danson)
Posted by Katherine on June 9th, 2009Although, as I just learned on Wikipedia, Ted Danson is also an Edward…
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