Dylan surprised us a couple of days ago by climbing on a dining room and chair and singing patty cake to himself, complete with his versions of “rolling” and “patting” and marking with a “D”!
He is very interested in his potty — sits on it every morning (has pee peed in it 4/5 days so far) and, throughout the day, he wants to sit on it and read books, cut food, play games, etc.
His manual dexterity continues to improve! He got some threading beads from Auntie Cindy yesterday and he was pretty easily threading them on a red string today!
He also knows so much more about plugs now, too. He loved the train set at Auntie Cindy’s house and knew we needed to plug it in to make it go. So, he’d pick up the plug and say, “plug” to me or Tom to have us plug it in.
The train was obsession for Dylan this holiday. When it stopped working, he went to his Lola and said, “daddy. Fix it!!!”
Which brings us to Dylan’s ever-growing vocabulary and his ability to more clearly enunciate his words — broccoli, Rocky, game, jackeeeeeet, abre, backpack, etc…and he surprised us by saying and pointing out Santa on a tree!! It’s now difficult to recall just all of the words Dylan is saying these days; he is repeating so much of what we say!
As to the holidays themselves, he just loved playing with his cousins (and by himself!)
We spent Christmas Eve at Jeff’s aunt’s house here in Santa Cruz. He loved his sweater from Janice so much (he got many compliments on it), he didn’t even want to take it off!!!
On Christmas Day, we headed to Cindy’s house. Dylan missed his nap (even though when I asked him if he wanted to nap, he would nod yes and put his head down, but too many distractions abounded and he’d eventually succumb to his curiousity) but he remained good-natured and jolly until 9pm, when he fell off the bottom step and finally sacked out on my shoulder while I was comforting him!
Overall, we had a really nice celebration, made all the merrier by the existence of this little man who brings fresh perspective to all that we do!
Many more pictures are on flickr.
