Dear Gabesy,
I love you! I came down with the flu yesterday, and this had you quite perplexed. Dad tried to explain it to you, so before you went to bed you came over to the couch to snuggle with me. It was so nice! Today, Grandma Robins took you to Walgreens, and while you were there you told her that I had eaten all of the M&Ms and I needed more to help me feel better. So you and Grandma picked up more M&Ms for me and brought them home! You are such a sweet boy!
I may regret telling you this... it's probably just as embarrassing for me as it is for you. But I still think it's cute, so I'll tell you. I was getting ready to hop in the shower this week. You were "tooling" around upstairs, and happened to pop in the bathroom just as I was ready to get in. You came right over to me and took a good look at my "private" area. I wasn't quite sure what to do, but you looked up to me and said, "Mommy, how do you pee?" You were quite perplexed at the fact that there was no penis. I told you that God made boys to have penises but girls peed through a urethra between their legs, and you said, "Oh! *That's* why you don't have a penis!" It was very funny!
Love,
Mom
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Friday, February 1, 2008
Fourteen Month Update
Dear Gabe,
I thought it was time I did a little summary update for you. You change so quickly and I like to keep track of what you're like at different stages!
* You sleep about 11-11.5 hours at night, going to bed at 7:30 and waking up sometime around 7:00. We don't get you out of bed until 7:00 even if you wake up before that as long as you're not upset.
* You take one nap - around 2-2.5 hours - at noon. I usually nurse you to sleep.
* You put yourself to sleep at night AND you stay asleep ALL NIGHT LONG!! That started just after Christmas when we turned up the night heat. I think you might have been waking up so much because you got cold! We felt very badly once we figured that out!
* You're between sizes - some of your clothes are 12-18 months and some of them are 18-24 months. You wear size 4 diapers.
* You love yogurt, cheese, Nutrigrain bars, and Life cereal. When you see butter on the table you think it's cheese and "yell" so we let you have it. You haven't yet figured out that butter looks similar to cheese.
* In the last week you've just started liking some of our table foods, especially foods with ground beef and tomatoes in them!
* You love to drink water. You hate to drink milk. We never give you juice, so I'm not sure about that!
* You absolutely love to read books. Some of your favorites are Baby Sign books, Goodnight Moon, Polar Bear Polar Bear, Listen Peter Rabbit, 10 Little Ladybugs... I can't think of others right now. You can entertain yourself for a long time with books, and you even pretend to read them to yourself.
* You like playing with forks and spoons.
* You can walk. In the last two weeks you've started walking more than you crawl.
* You're starting to learn how to feed yourself. Sometimes you will feed yourself foods but you'll refuse the same foods if we try to feed them to you.
* You just learned how to drink through a straw.
* We're not really sure if you say words yet. You make lots of sounds and you imitate us sometimes. You might say mama and dada, you've copied the word "gracious," you say "tick tock" when we change your diaper, and you've said "two" when we count. But we're not sure how many of your words are real and how many are just copies of sounds we're making. I am pretty sure you do know the word "bye," though. You say it when people leave, even if they just leave the room to go upstairs.
* You like to take baths in the "big boy" tub and you have figured out how to get out of your bath ring and stand up.
* You don't really know how to color or draw. You are more interested in tasting the crayons and markers.
* You know how to give hugs and kisses but you don't do it very much.
* You know some of your body parts. You know your head, teeth, and belly. We're trying to teach you chest and nose. You know where other people's noses are.
I thought it was time I did a little summary update for you. You change so quickly and I like to keep track of what you're like at different stages!
* You sleep about 11-11.5 hours at night, going to bed at 7:30 and waking up sometime around 7:00. We don't get you out of bed until 7:00 even if you wake up before that as long as you're not upset.
* You take one nap - around 2-2.5 hours - at noon. I usually nurse you to sleep.
* You put yourself to sleep at night AND you stay asleep ALL NIGHT LONG!! That started just after Christmas when we turned up the night heat. I think you might have been waking up so much because you got cold! We felt very badly once we figured that out!
* You're between sizes - some of your clothes are 12-18 months and some of them are 18-24 months. You wear size 4 diapers.
* You love yogurt, cheese, Nutrigrain bars, and Life cereal. When you see butter on the table you think it's cheese and "yell" so we let you have it. You haven't yet figured out that butter looks similar to cheese.
* In the last week you've just started liking some of our table foods, especially foods with ground beef and tomatoes in them!
* You love to drink water. You hate to drink milk. We never give you juice, so I'm not sure about that!
* You absolutely love to read books. Some of your favorites are Baby Sign books, Goodnight Moon, Polar Bear Polar Bear, Listen Peter Rabbit, 10 Little Ladybugs... I can't think of others right now. You can entertain yourself for a long time with books, and you even pretend to read them to yourself.
* You like playing with forks and spoons.
* You can walk. In the last two weeks you've started walking more than you crawl.
* You're starting to learn how to feed yourself. Sometimes you will feed yourself foods but you'll refuse the same foods if we try to feed them to you.
* You just learned how to drink through a straw.
* We're not really sure if you say words yet. You make lots of sounds and you imitate us sometimes. You might say mama and dada, you've copied the word "gracious," you say "tick tock" when we change your diaper, and you've said "two" when we count. But we're not sure how many of your words are real and how many are just copies of sounds we're making. I am pretty sure you do know the word "bye," though. You say it when people leave, even if they just leave the room to go upstairs.
* You like to take baths in the "big boy" tub and you have figured out how to get out of your bath ring and stand up.
* You don't really know how to color or draw. You are more interested in tasting the crayons and markers.
* You know how to give hugs and kisses but you don't do it very much.
* You know some of your body parts. You know your head, teeth, and belly. We're trying to teach you chest and nose. You know where other people's noses are.
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