Family Fuller

Facebook has ruined me a bit for blogging and I apologize.  I even missed Holden’s second birthday which was Feb 22.  We celebrated with the fam when we were in Arizona.  In fact, we couldn’t decided on the type of cake so we ended up making two:

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Holden has been doing pretty well.  He loves to draw and write, and can spend a lot of time at the coffee table with pens and paper.  He can draw circles, he says they are “Os”.  He always makes the smallest shapes.  Leans over right by the pencil doing super fine work - it is funny.  The crayons are always out but lately he has gotten a little out of control.  I am constantly reminding him “crayons go on paper” – he has already written all over my built in cabinet, the train table, the pack and play, the chairs, etc…  Whenever I see him wandering with a crayon I get nervous.

He still isn’t speaking very well although he tries.  He thinks he is saying lots of things but he just doesn’t have the annunciation down.  I know it isn’t a mental or hearing issue because he clearly understands everything I say and he already knows lots of letters, games, etc.  It is really frustrating for him and for me.  I know he wants to tell me more than he can and I really want to understand what he is saying and thinking.  The doctor said to just be patient for now and to come back in 6 months if he doesn’t improve, so we will see.

He is definitely a two year old though because he is starting to act just like Colin did.  He has to do everything himself – which is usually a huge mess.  He gets so mad and throws tantrums for no reason (well that I can tell).  He pretty much has one every morning while trying to get his breakfast.  He stands there with the frig door open for like 5 minutes looking through everything.  I finally have to get him out of it and then it is like I have wronged him in some unforgivable way.  It escalates from there for about 20 minutes until he calms down and eats.

He is a little sweetie though too.  Just about a week ago he told me “luv ooh” – the first time he said he loved me unprompted.  Of course I gushed and hugged him so he just kept saying it, which is fine by me. 

He is still in his crib and hasn’t tried to climb out of it so we haven’t gotten him a bed yet.  We don’t want to change things if they are working.

Holden is much bigger than Colin was at this age so Holden is growing out of things that just got handed down to him by Colin 6 months ago.  He is a little bruiser – actually he is a the 50% for both height and weight, but I guess he just seems big compared to skinny Colin. 

He and Colin are becoming good friends and they really love to play together.  Although Colin has the bad habit of encouraging Holden to do things he knows he’s not supposed to do.  You really have to watch those two

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