Another month old for both of our little men. Phi is 18 months and getting toward the two end of things, we have had some rough days with battles of the will. I keep thinking his eye teeth are coming in as there are lumps now on the upper ones but still nothing has appeared. He is as busy as ever and can now reach door handles. He still can't open most of them thankfully, but at Grandpa D and Grandma Jo 's the handle is a long flat one that you twist down and he has it figured out. But Ferguson the Golden Retriever is a great deterrent on the outside as Phi has a strong aversion to the dog. Ferg likes to watch him when Phi goes out to play in the sand box and they will stand and regard each other from a slight distance on good days. On the bad days Ferg likes to steal licks from Phi's face while Phi screams in terror for some one to save him, therefore for the most part Phi considers the dog a threat to be avoid unless a grown up is around.
Phi loves water still and when ever the kitchen sink is on is desperate to get there. The other day he grabbed the short step stool and attempted to reach but that wasn't quite tall enough so with a quick shove he ran for the nearest bar stool and pushed it across the kitchen. With that in line he clambered up and gleefully accomplished his mission.
He still likes to be a helper most of the time, bring things we ask for and putting things away, his favorite is helping put groceries on the belt when we go grocery shopping. He stands in the front of the cart and loads them on watching in fascination as they move away from him down the belt.
We struggle a lot with the word "come" and seem to have quite a strong will to do whatever is uppermost on his mind. He is still a great sleeper and generally sleeps in till 9:30 at least. If I get up with My Luv by 7:00 am I can get a bit of cleaning done while both little men sleep. I thought the other day, "My man gets up and goes to his job by then, I should get up and do mine" .... some days it happens. :P I certainly feel better when I get a head start on things before the boys get up. So time goes on and we welcome some changes and others we struggle with but are thankful to have a (mostly) happy, healthy little man.
He still likes to be a helper most of the time, bring things we ask for and putting things away, his favorite is helping put groceries on the belt when we go grocery shopping. He stands in the front of the cart and loads them on watching in fascination as they move away from him down the belt.
We struggle a lot with the word "come" and seem to have quite a strong will to do whatever is uppermost on his mind. He is still a great sleeper and generally sleeps in till 9:30 at least. If I get up with My Luv by 7:00 am I can get a bit of cleaning done while both little men sleep. I thought the other day, "My man gets up and goes to his job by then, I should get up and do mine" .... some days it happens. :P I certainly feel better when I get a head start on things before the boys get up. So time goes on and we welcome some changes and others we struggle with but are thankful to have a (mostly) happy, healthy little man.
Leroy is now 5 months as of the 21st and loves his big brother. He sits and watches whatever Phi is up to and loves it when Phi plays with him. Phi will bring him toys and Leroy is getting more coordinated at taking them. Some times they'll just sit and laugh at each other, it's been fun to watch the interaction. Of course Phi also takes toys away (something we're trying to work on) but Leroy doesn't complain yet. He is getting a little harder to work with as he wants attention and is not so content to just sit some where for as long. He had his first taste of baby cereal yesterday, he was so funny as he didn't know how to open his mouth for the bites but wanted to suck off the spoon. (Is'nt that how you eat?? It's worked pretty well so far.) This was a switch from big brother who was ready and willing for bites at around 4 months. I've kind of been enjoying the baby stage lasting longer this time, especially the breast feeding as it's made a great weight loss program. I didn't start loosing from it though until he hit about 4.5 months and then I think the demand was high enough to compensate and it started helping. We didn't get a chance for that with Phi as Leroy was on the way by the time he reached 4 months so this has been great!
He still doesn't go through the night but 5-6 hours is good enough for me for now. He does happen to like to wake up around 8 am and stay up for at least an hour before going back to sleep. That sort of thwarts any plans for sleeping in past then if I'm feeling lazy.
He is a very smiley and mostly out going little man. Occasionally he'll get sad about something and it takes some doing to get him to forget about whatever it is and calm down again. That's only happened twice so far, and the majority of the time he's happy. He talks a lot and has a complaining little jabber he uses when he feels he's been ignored too long. He loves to snuggle most of the time and likes to fall asleep with his little nose buried in the blankets.
We have a well baby check up at the beginning of next month for both boys and it will be fun to see how much he actually weighs!
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Your boys are growing up so fast and they are really adorable. They are so easy going!
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