Passing on skills

 

 

 

My mom was showed Erik how to make an apple pie. He enjoyed helping and I think brushing the milk on the crust and sprinkling sugar on it was his favorite part. I'm not sure if he ate any or not.

Moving on 'Adin time'

It's fun for Adin and me when Erik is in preschool. Most days we come home and Adin gets to play with whatever toys catch his fancy, without Erik getting upset. Today we came home and parked in front of the house (instead of in the garage). This change in routine seemed to intrigue Adin and he toddled off down the sidewalk. So we had a 20 minute walk down our street. He pointed out cars, doors, and trees. One house had two balloons tied to some plants so we went up and he pointed back and forth to them for a while. That drove the dog who lived there absolutely bonkers so we kept walking. The only hard part was yards with a steep hill in front he wanted to climb and I felt we should probably stay on sidewalks. It was so nice to just follow our whims.

Then we went back to the car and drove to the library for Baby Storytime. I took Erik a lot his first and second years but this was the first time I took Adin. He was mildly frustrated at first going slowly through the books with the group, but there are balls to roll and it's no problem to get up and walk around. Everytime we started a new book, song or fingerplay he came right back and sat down in my lap. It was fun to see him get the routine. A friend from church happened to be there so we got to chat a little after storytime was done.

Adin has just begun to put two words together. He has said, "mama nana" when I was eating a banana and "mama wawa" when I gave him some water. Yay! Love those checking off those milestones. He is imitating tons of words as well. I believe he said "ra-ra" today when I showed him a carrot! Ok, so you'd probably have to be a speech pathologist to connect those two, but I do!

More pictures

Trick or treat!





I'm terribly biased, but I think Adin looks so handsome in this picture.


Erik built a crane at the neighbor's this week. Impressive.

Adin at play

Adin stumbled across a little stuffed chick or duck he got at Easter. I was reading the paper and watching him out of the corner of my eye. He gave the duck a drink of water from my water bottle. Made it walk around. Brought it in the bathroom and tossed it in the bathtub with the rubber ducks. Took it in Erik's room and put it on Erik's bed and tucked the blanket around it. So cute! Then he brought it in the back room and tossed it behind the couch.

He has a book he's wanted to hear over and over. It's a board book with tabs to pull. Each page has the same cadence: ask a question, give two choices, make a comment. So he brought me the book and I read it to him, then handed it to him to read by himself. He was babbling on each page with the correct cadence. It was so cute to hear him babbling with the same intonation I had just used!