It's your lucky day, bonus coverage of the exciting adventures of little Chasers. This is what happens when I get a day off of work and run out of things to do. Definitely an exciting weekend that began with some blood. For the most part Chase has the walking thing down, but every once in a while he likes to throw in a good faceplant to remind himself he has a little learning to do. This weekend there were two pretty good ones. The first happened while he was carrying a basketball around the yard, tripped, and bit his lip. Nothing like a kid wailing with blood all over his teeth in front of the neighbors. About a minute later he was fine though and shouting "ba, ba" as he went to pick it up again. Round two came at a friends house. Chase was taking his 5th lap around the driveway (more on this later) when all of a sudden he fell forward on his hands, couldn't stop his mass from driving his face right into the driveway. It was one of those slow motion moments where I just stood there and watched the nose and lip smoosh into the driveway and what "oh crap". He immediately started wailing and had blood dripping from his nose and a cut lip and front of the nose to go with it. So while the outside maybe fun, we're finding it a little more dangerous than around the house.
Second, once again we buy an awesome little pool, take Chase to parks and all he does is find the road and start walking towards it. We set him in the middle of the yard and he immediately bee lines to the driveway and wants to walk over to the neighbors. My wife would say that is because they all have dogs and we do not, but it means no snoozing while watching him in the front yard. Then today we drove about 30 minutes to find a park. We were trying to find a lake, since this is the land of 10,000 lakes, but all the lakes around us have no parks attached. So we finally find this nice park, have lunch, put Chase into the sand next to the playground and he immediately starts marching off down the sidewalk, does a few laps around the restrooms, and then walks out into the parking lot towards the road finding discarded cigarettes and water bottles that he wants to play with. Awesome. You've got to love the walking now though because he very rarely falls and he swings his arms like he's out for a nice little stroll. Maybe he understands when we talk about his big belly and he's just trying to work it off. He already takes part in Laura's workout videos every morning. He has the arm waves and jumping jacks down.
Finally, Chase isn't quite sure what to make of sprinklers yet. He first experienced them this weekend and he would basically walk into the stream of the sprinkler, stop in shock, and let the water continue to just pelt him in the face. I thought this was pretty funny, so we tried to make him continue to do it. Doesn't seem to be afraid of them though and seemed to like getting wet, so that bodes well for our vacation coming up. Although he did hate the sand today at the park, he didn't like that it stuck to his hands, and he just tried to wipe everything off onto his belly. He definitely loves the outside though, at least 10 times a day he walks to the door and starts waving his hands like he's saying goodbye to let us know he wants to go out. It's going to be rough once winter is here again, which in Minnesota is like 2 months away.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
We've got a dancing, cooking, baseball lovin son
Our son continues to dance to anything whether it is his favorite song "Boom Boom Pow", my awesome singing, or a Pep Boys commercial. If he hears any music at all the dancing begins. He's added a new move to his repertoire which includes waving his arms back and forth in front of him while he nods and bobs his butt and head.
This kid also loves the kitchen, if he hears the fridge or pantry door open he will make a beeline waddle towards the kitchen and see what he can find. We keep hearing he is going to slim down when he starts walking, but the way this kid eats we may have a lineman on our hands. Although no sweets, this kid loves beans, peas, strawberries, bananas, and almost any fruit or vedgie you give him. I'm seeing a future as a dancing chef.
On the sports side he knows what baseball is. Everytime I flip at the twins he points at the TV and shouts "ba ba" which is his word for ball since he doesn't know how to make the "ll" sound. So we've got that going for us. I still think he's a little spoiled since he has seen more games in his lifetime than I saw in my first 20 years of existence. I'll make sure to remind him of that later in life.
He also loves any other type of ball whether it is a basketball, wiffle ball, golf ball, baseball, etc... He also likes to stand at the top of the stairs and chuck a ball down to watch it fall. I've tried to teach him how to hit off a tee. The box said 1 and half +, but I was hoping he was a little advanced for an age. Since he can't hold the bat upright, I'm thinking that may not be the case. Maybe we will try golf next.
We found out he was allergic to penicillan after giving it to him for about 7 days. He started getting a rash and my reaction was, oh it will just go away. 2 days later and with bumps all over his body, we finally figured it out. Fortunately the ear infection was cured, but know something we will need to remember going forward.
Other than that he is starting to develop an attitude. When he's done he throws whatever is left on his tray on the floor. If you take something from him he throws a tantrum. He's learned how to throw his head towards the ground in disgust. All similar to things his mother does, so I see where he gets it. So it should be interesting once he can actually start to talk. I'm assuming we will have a hard time not laughing at him when he tries to be tough.
That's it for now, he's definitely walking and going up stairs. Words right now seem to just be ma-ma, da-da, and ba for ball. He's learned to wave goodbye and sign language for more, all done, and milk. So overall the little guy seems on track. I'll be back in a month.
This kid also loves the kitchen, if he hears the fridge or pantry door open he will make a beeline waddle towards the kitchen and see what he can find. We keep hearing he is going to slim down when he starts walking, but the way this kid eats we may have a lineman on our hands. Although no sweets, this kid loves beans, peas, strawberries, bananas, and almost any fruit or vedgie you give him. I'm seeing a future as a dancing chef.
On the sports side he knows what baseball is. Everytime I flip at the twins he points at the TV and shouts "ba ba" which is his word for ball since he doesn't know how to make the "ll" sound. So we've got that going for us. I still think he's a little spoiled since he has seen more games in his lifetime than I saw in my first 20 years of existence. I'll make sure to remind him of that later in life.
He also loves any other type of ball whether it is a basketball, wiffle ball, golf ball, baseball, etc... He also likes to stand at the top of the stairs and chuck a ball down to watch it fall. I've tried to teach him how to hit off a tee. The box said 1 and half +, but I was hoping he was a little advanced for an age. Since he can't hold the bat upright, I'm thinking that may not be the case. Maybe we will try golf next.
We found out he was allergic to penicillan after giving it to him for about 7 days. He started getting a rash and my reaction was, oh it will just go away. 2 days later and with bumps all over his body, we finally figured it out. Fortunately the ear infection was cured, but know something we will need to remember going forward.
Other than that he is starting to develop an attitude. When he's done he throws whatever is left on his tray on the floor. If you take something from him he throws a tantrum. He's learned how to throw his head towards the ground in disgust. All similar to things his mother does, so I see where he gets it. So it should be interesting once he can actually start to talk. I'm assuming we will have a hard time not laughing at him when he tries to be tough.
That's it for now, he's definitely walking and going up stairs. Words right now seem to just be ma-ma, da-da, and ba for ball. He's learned to wave goodbye and sign language for more, all done, and milk. So overall the little guy seems on track. I'll be back in a month.
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