Good morning, my love!
Actually, you're still sleeping.. thank goodness. You're sleeping better now than you were the past month. You've had a cold, your 15 month shots (MMR, Varicella, DTap), and you've been working on your top two teeth for over a month now, which has all added up to some very sleepless and restless nights for all of us. Yesterday you slept til 8:30! The day before, 9:30! It's 7 now and you're snoring away. Figured I'd take a minute (I don't have many to spare!) to write to you about what you're doing now.
You're still going to an Occupational Therapist for feeding therapy, but at this point she's sort of at a 'loss'. You have the mechanics down.. you can swallow, chew, feed yourself fine, but you just don't WANT to, which isn't something we can 'fix', unfortunately. So like everything else, we just keep trying and waiting. You've been able to stab a few things with a fork, and it makes you SO proud (probably because I freak out and cheer for you), and then you look at what you stabbed on your fork, say something to it in Jameson language, and eat it. So funny! You really like this chicken smoked sausage we get, macaroni and cheese, and of course, your beloved american cheese. You will sometimes eat other things like chicken nuggets, cottage cheese, and banana pieces but that's not as often as the other favorites you have.
You are talking a TON. I started a list of your words and animal sounds and it seriously grows every week! Off the top of my head some of your words are 'da', 'mama', clock, light, brush, pretty (new), bath (baph), ball (ba), bye bye, fish, dog/doggie, moon, balloon, hot, cheese, Papa, truck/tractor. Sometimes you make up your own words and it's hard to figure them out, the last one you said for EVERYthing sounded like "otch", I have no idea what that was, but now you don't say it any more. Now you say something a lot that sounds like "GOO! GOO!", not sure about that one either. You make tons of animal sounds too, but for some reason you've stopped doing them on demand.. (independent much?). You will also point to your ears, eye, nose, mouth and feet, and sometimes tummy.
You give lots of kisses now.. with your mouth open lol. It's so sweet though. You cuddle and love to wrestle and get tickles.
You're of course walking pretty perfect, and FAST! You climb a little on things you used to not, so we watch you pretty closely. You do a good job now getting down off of things you climb up on, like the cubby in our family room, or the treadmill downstairs. You do well climbing up the slide and going down, but you still like to stand up on the platform so we are still teaching you to sit down and get down from there too.
You're becoming more and more obsessed with your pacifiers. You aren't happy unless you have two, one in your hand, one in your mouth. that is going to be a fight I don't look forward to having later on.
I still rock you to sleep..that's another thing that will likely bite me in the end, but it's such a wonderful time for both of us (mostly me, probably).. just rocking you, and looking at you as you doze off, singing songs to you. The songs I always sing to you are Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, and Close to You (Carpenters). Sometimes I just hum to you and make up songs, but I swear you know when I'm humming versus singing and it doesn't help get you to sleep as much.. I'll be humming and then start singing instead and all the sudden your eyes close and you go to sleep lol.. i'm not sure why that is.
You are socially just the sweetest thing, you LOVE people (most people).
You are still and outdoorsy guy, you could play outside all day I think. Your newest things to do outside are to look for the moon and point it out if it's in the sky, and to look for airplanes. You have such good vision, you always see them before I do. You love to play in the rocks out front, and now that you've discovered that the dogs are behind our gate in the backyard, you love to go up to the gap in the gate and feed them rocks. And they always take them from you.. I hope they don't really eat them!!
Ok I better go get ready for you to be up!
I love you so much, more than I'll ever be able to tell you. I'll show you though, I promise that!
Like I've said before, you make me a better person, and you make my life so rich, and full of love, laughter and happiness.
Namaste my darling!! (I've explained to you what that means, but you'll probably not really understand it for a long time, but I still say it to you every night when I tell you goodnight, that I love you, that I'll protect you and keep you safe as much as I can, then namaste, and sweet dreams).
Love, Mommy
