Nov 28th, 2005
Too much
There are so many things that I think about recording here that I forget to add; I suppose that’s why I started actively using the blog in the first place, but I’m still missing some things.
The positive spin on that is that I’m enjoying every moment with Colin, and so stopping to type up a blog entry doesn’t really factor in - like when he got up at 5:30am on Sunday and decided he would not go back to sleep in his crib. He wanted to be rocked, or else.
Now that he’s learning and doing so many new things every day, I’ve come to expect it of him - Jess takes the opposite position, she can hardly believe half the things he picks up so quickly. He has managed to learn sign language to the point that he tells us when he’s hungry or thirsty, wants more of something, needs a new diaper, or is ready for his bath. The verbal communication is coming along as well, I can’t even catalog all of the sounds (word-like and otherwise) he uses, but he uses all of them quite a bit. To be fair, “da” still occupies the top spot as the most used sound, but he’s definitely branching out.
He’s a book fiend, which makes me happy, and wants to have Dr. Seuss’ Fox in Socks read to him at least four or five times a day - he repeatedly requests it by using his word for socks, which is something like “ga”.
Can’t wait to see how he reacts to various holiday activities - he didn’t have quite the “OH” moment we’d thought he would have when we put up the tree yesterday. He seems cautiously interested in it, but we’ll see how the rest of the month plays out leading up to his second Xmas.