How did my Tyler get to be 17 months old? Of course he will always be my baby, but really he is turning into a little boy now. I wish I could bottle him up like this! Stuff he is up to:
- Flirtatious winking at everyone, which is really blinking...even cuter!
- Lots of motor boat noises. Bbbbbbbb is his favorite sound.
- Obsessed with balloons...and trying to say it comes out like: Bbbbbbbbbaaaallooooo
- Also likes the word ball. Tries to say juice, Pop-Pop, down. Growls to imitate lion noises.
- Hitting his sister all the time when frustrated or she invades his space the least little bit. Already?! Need to get the pack-n-play set up for time outs downstairs...
- The kitchen stool - it's one of the tall ones and he has taken his share of spills off it. It helps him see lots of things and get into lots of kitchen drawers!
- Sliding - sister takes him down the tulip slide in our backyard and it is soooo sweet to see them come shooting out the end of it, giggling with wild abandon.
- Getting pickier - he used to eat everything and he has already figured out how to work the food system to get the stuff he wants the most. Ack.
- Still crying for church drop-offs, transition to babysitters, even transition from mommy to daddy sometimes. But unlike big sister, who would cry and scream for hours, he gets over it pretty quickly. I have never had to be paged out of the church service. Can't even count how often it happened with big sister!
- Getting into the pretzels. PopPop's fault....
Happy New Year!
Well, I dropped the ball with the flurry of activity before Christmas and didn't get Jingle's final 3 nights onto the blog yet. In the interest of complete documentation (very important to us CPA auditor-types), my 2012 will begin with the end of 2011. Huh? OK, you get it...onward...
Night 8 - Perhaps the pinnacle of his 10 nights in the Kim household, at least in terms of work required by mommy. Jingle camped out in the candy dish after making cookies for his children. K and T for the little ones, J for....well, take a guess.
Night 9 - Going for a ride on Katelynn's beloved "Dino". She liked this one.
Night 10 - Jingle hid in our (fake) ficus tree. Nothing too exciting and apparently I was so tired that I even forgot to get a picture of that one.
So there ya' have it. I had a lot of fun with this project. I'm not sure how many years I have with this kid...she asked me again today whether Santa is real. (I have taken to vague responses rather than outright lies... I asked her today "What do you think?") Hopefully she will still love it even once she realizes Jingle is just pretend-fun.
