growing

L is so cute.  He screams a lot and we're trying to get him to stop being upset about everything.  He is cut from a similar cloth as lP which is creative and sometimes exhausting.  But they have an insight that surprises.

Play so hard

 L wandered outside around 2pm and fell asleep on the spider swing.  Life's busy like that.

 Here is L signing "I love you".

More often than not he holds up his best assortment of 3 fingers and says softly "This means I love you."  Yes.   It does.

little things

L has picked up some phrases that are strange to me.
"I forgive you."  "I promise."  I'm not sure if B is teaching him that or what.  I don't make promises except covenants.  We do forgive though.

He's trying to learn the ILY and I'm often amused at what he comes up with.  He'll hold up some combination of 3 fingers and say "This means I love you!"  He's awesome like that.

L loves to use his finger as an avatar.  We hug our index fingers together.  They talk, play tag, and hide and seek.  He's very into that sort of play.

Yesterday he was eating a popcickle and lP said "Popcicle, go into the cave (l's mouth) to which L replied "It's dangerous!"

I love his imagination.  He has a real friend in lP and B for all the imaginative play a kid needs.

Spider man

L is 3 for a few more months.  He likes to milk his place as the youngest in the family.  He is pretty awesome.  He learned the word grip recently and P loved to have L show him his grip, extending his hand and having L squeeze it tight.  L loves to explain and define.  He tells us what we're "'sposed to" do, like "You're 'sposed to sleep with me." and he often tells us "I thought I wanted to have milk and signing time." when he really just wants those things. 

L likes to show expressions.  When he's deciding he puts his finger to his lips and says "Hmmmm".
I love how he shows happy and sad just for the fun of it.
Here he is trying to wink.

We put the training wheels back on the little red bike that B just barely graduated from and now L is racing around on it.

Growing

 We went to the audiologist and G requested that we ride to the 11th floor to look out over campus.  L said "Mom!  Where did you come from?!" Like I had been gone but just showed up.  He has so many funny phrases.  "Are you kidding me?" is one he uses a lot when he doesn't like what he was told, like it's time for bed.

L has been interested in riding the bike.  P and G have pushed him along on this good old red bike.  So I put the training wheels on and he's having a great time.  He can peddle around up and down the drive way.  We took it to visit Grandma and G shepherded him across the parking lot so he could ride along the sidewalks.  He's very confident about it.  Just one more way that he reminds us of G at this age.

Cock-a-doodle-doo!

We finally went to Ikea up in Jtown.  lP and B were the right size to go into the play place.  M was too big and L is not yet potty trained.  The lady signing the kids into the play place gave M and L coupons for free ice cream cones.  L has never had such a large ice cream cone.  He did pretty good.  He liked to lick it in the usual non productive messy way.  But often enough he would say "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" and take a slurp.

Monkey bars and monkey behavior

L succeeded in doing the monkey bars today.  He's been working on it for a while.  Later he tried to climb to the turret that is 20 feet in the air.  That was when I got a hold of him and we left the park.