Spend time with me!

L is pretty independent but he's also getting into games like pat-a-cake and reading books with me.  I love this little sweet boy.  One of his made up games is to play tag with objects in hand.  Like if I have a car and he has a car, he'll make his touch mine and say "Tag You!" 

Today we were at a park and saw a wild turkey.  L was intrigued and kept wandering after it until he made his way out of the cultivated area and around a pile of brush, to the dirt road behind.  There he stood, when I finally found him, saying "Where go?"

Who is this boy!

 L climbs right along with the big kids.  This is a climbing dome near the lighthouse.  It's scary to let him but he does a great job and it's so wonderful to let him do it.  Also it's pretty miserable keeping him from doing it for the sake of not frightening bystandars.

 He was playing peekaboo with me in the tiger towel recently.  So cute.

 I went away for woodbadge and L seems to have grown up over the weekend I was away!

We found this sweet outfit for $1.50 and bought it even though I was pretty sure it was too small.  He tried it on and was done.  I sent it on to my friend who has a little one along with some mini rubber boots.  Cuteness!

No thanks!

This little guy is such a delight.  He doesn't like diaper changes and protests with a rapid fire "No thanks!  No thanks!  No thanks!"

cute machine

I took L with me to get a tire fixed.  He just hung out and was happy for the hour it took.  This tire place has a nice waiting room.  It's so different when you go somewhere with just 1 child.  We let the youngest stay up much later than the other kids and they get to have that only child sort of bedtime hangout.

Today L came by the kitchen asking for "food? food?  food?"  I offered him a bagel and he started clapping and saying "Yay!"  When I gave it to him he said "Eat this."

He's so cute and growing up so fast.  He still looks like such a baby and will for the next 5 years. 

Two words

 This is L on Christmas eve eating with a fork on the hearth at Grandma and Grandpa P's house.  He was great.  It's amazing having family gatherings with all children old enough to just be.

 At uncle T's house L had so much fun looking at all the cool toys.  This is a rocket backpack uncle T made.  So cute!  L was surprisingly good about not touching their lego creations. 

L is so lucky to have 4 siblings that are so good to him.  Here he is on M's lap.  Earlier that day I'd offered him a cheese stick and he cried out "Chee,  Chee,  Doh!" looking back toward M.  He was calling to her to get a cheese stick.  I love that our children have been so receptive to being trained to share.  I give L 5 marshmallows and he goes and finds all the kids and gives them each one.  There have been times, with M&M where the sharing didn't go so smoothly.  But in general it's fantastic.

He's using a lot of 2 word sentences now.  He'll say "Taoh Mom" for Thank you Mom.  He loves "Choo Choo Train". 

He ate too much corn on the cob today.  He loves it.

He still gives a lot of lip kisses and makes us all laugh.

Quick adaptations

This is how the outing began, with lP forcing L to feed hay to Penny the cow.

Within a very short amount of time he was happy to go and feed Penny the cow.

together time

Last night L brought me 2 library books I'd been reading.  I picked him up and took him to my room to snuggle and read.  After a while he got out of bed and went to get the other book and set himself up to read the novel.  I just enjoyed that time with him thumbing through the book.  Then I went and got him a book with pictures.  He laid down and read and occasionally talked about what was in the pictures or leaned over to give me a kiss.  When I rolled over to read on my stomach, he rolled over too and that's where he fell asleep.