59 Weeks Old

I am way behind in my posting!  I decided not to keep up with the weekiversary posts after he turned one and here it has been 7 weeks without an official update.  Guess I need structure, huh?  Ted on the other hand, not so into structure and schedules.  He is a go with the flow kind of kid.  Well,  go with his own flow, I guess, not necessarily mine.

His first word is car.  He was also very good at saying, “baa,” when I asked what a sheep said, but now he says, “da.”  Which is what he says all the animals say.  Except for the llama.  I taught him something silly for the llama because I didn’t know what noise llamas make.  Of course that is the only one he has picked up so far.

When family was here this past weekend they taught him “uh oh.”  He has been saying it a lot the past couple days, not just when something goes wrong.  To Ted it is an all occasion phrase.  He also says “uh oh da da da da,” which is from his Auntie Christine trying to teach him “uh oh spaghettios.”

He does say “da da” and “ma ma” and seem to mean Pat and me.  But he also uses “da” constantly in his babbling.  And when he says “ma ma” its usually a whine of “ma ma ma ma ma ma ma.”  He says “ga dong, ga dong, ga dong” a lot.  Not sure what that means.

He is really good at walking and has no problem standing up on his own and walking wherever he wants.  He is a champion squatter.  He can just crouch right down and hold it forever.  My knees hurt just watching him.  His latest accomplishment is dancing.  So cute!  He will turn on some music and start waving his arms or walking in a circle.  It is really adorable.

Auntie Christine also showed him how to do the hokey pokey.  And this morning he sat down in his old bouncy seat, turned on the music and did the hokey pokey arms with his fingers pointing up.

He plays with Mega Bloks and has gotten good at getting them to stay together.  He likes to add onto what other people are building and can sit and play with them for a long time.  It was nice to see him and Gramps AKA Bill building and demolishing towers together.

He loves sitting down and looking through his books.  He will pull out one at a time flip through a few pages and pull out another, making a huge pile.  He also loves it when we read to him, but most of the time he still turns the pages really fast, so there isn’t much time to discuss what we are seeing.  He does seem to know his animals though.  I made him pick them out of a line up and he did really well.  It was only the chicken that seemed to confuse him.

He is eating a wide variety of food.  He eats both what we are eating and baby food.  He usually only eats a few bites of what we are having and then we feed him a pack or two of baby food.  His favorites are fresh strawberries, ham, yogurt, and baby food green beans.  He prefers cups with built-in straws over sippy cups.  And he had his first bites of ice cream on my birthday.

Also he has the top left molar coming in.  AndI am afraid to mention it out loud, but he has been sleeping through the night for the last few weeks, though not last night.  I think he is trying to cut back to one nap a day.  And that is all I can think of for current Ted facts!