Outta my head and onto the "paper"...

Gosh,

There really is a lot to jot down lately. I feel as though I've been slacking. Your Father and I are sitting here on the couch and so we are going to collaborate on little, tiny things that we want to remember. So lately you are so astute... you love it when Daddy gives you long complicated tasks. Seriously, I don't know how you do it, seems you understand so much vocabulary. He'll say, Haydin, bring your truck over here and put the pool balls in it. No problem. Then days later, Daddy will mention, What's in your truck?... and you show this "light bulb ah-ha" moment and run to get the pool balls out. You are trying out so many new words too that of course only we can understand, but you are very consistent. Also, your sign language is really picking up. You enjoy being able to tell us certain things, that's obvious. All the time you do this "Muh Muh" thing that isn't "Ma Ma" but with an arm outstretched means you want something. When either of us obliges you just MUST come give us a kiss as a thankyou. You initiate it. It's so very thoughtful and welcomed... since we can never get enough kisses from you. You like to share food, drinks, sniffing of flowers, etc. with us. Any time one of us lays down on the floor to play with you, you hop right up and get a pillow and bring it to us putting it right at our heads. Sesame Street is the only tv you really watch and we put it on when you are overly cranky and it just fixes anything... so just just singing the song. You like music so much and we really must get you instruments. Right now you think it's cool that you can hear music from the little iPod headphones. Books are a great hit with you, especially when we get a big pile and you sit on the couch by one of us and just go through them all at your own pace. You are really starting to chow down on food this week, much to our happiness. You can plow off a whole container of Yo Soy yogurt or Soy Pudding in addition to eating a good meal... and that just blows my mind. Like I said your vocab is so good, when we are cooking in the kitchen together you make the same sounds and gestures every time you see steam. You know to pick up specks of food and put them in the trash. After each meal you run and get the broom to "help" clean up your mess. Nothing makes you happier than pots, pans, measuring cups, lids, spatulas... especially since you have a whole cupboard to yourself with these kind of things. You adore the remote that turns on the fan and lights in the living room and love that you can work it yourself. You say bye-bye so often right now, to everything that is finished, left behind, done with... but it's always in the right circumstance... it's neat to see you know all the different aspect/levels in which bye-bye is appropriate. You like to hand things back to us right now: if you are done with your drink, food, toy... you give it back to us, almost like you realize okay M & D will hold this and take care of it for me, keep track of it, until I need it the next time. Coloring has become fun for you too and I'm excited to go out and buy you finger paints soon. I think we will go to the newspaper printing place and get and "end roll" of their butcher paper to roll out on the floor like Mommy had when she was a girl and let you go at it with the art supplies. You are still my little baby Haydin, but more and more I'm missing you. Seems like you are growing so quick. I don't want to loose the "I need you Mommy" part. ~sigh~ You are just the greatest.