Complexity

As time goes on, I realize these posts are going to be more narrated by me, and less by photos. The times are changing.... my boy is getting bigger!

I also won't be able to post as much as I once did. With my business, my website, teaching, and births, I am barely able to keep my head above water. Not to mention that Finn is more difficult to wrangle and requires more interaction from me every day!

For example:

Yesterday he woke me up by putting a sheep in my face and telling me he had a sheep and it was sleeping. Then he handed me my phone and told me call daddy, which I did. And they talked for a good 10 minutes on Tom's way to work. When Tom told him he loved him, Finn said, "you too daddy!'. He's getting so sweet and so expressive.

He's never been as interested in talking to us as he has been with playing with us, but he does have the skills when he chooses to use them. Also, yesterday, he walked up to me with his plastic shark, and said, "Mommy! Look! It's a scary shark!' then he pulled his leg out from under him and yelled 'ouch, my leg!' (as if it bit him) and then got bored and walked away. He's a riot. Don't ask me how he knew it was shark week, because we don't let him watch it!

Then, I had 4 peaches in a bag on the kitchen table to get ripe. I came upstairs to 'Mommy! I found yummy peaches! They're so yummy!' and bites were taken out of ALL of them.

Then, as I prepared for class on Thursday, I told him he had to put the pillows down because they were for 'mommy's ladies'. And he put his hands out like he had a round belly and said, 'mommy's ladies have babies in bellies'. I almost fell over. I have never told him that or taught him that specifically, and it amazes me what he can pick up.

Because we go to La Leche League meetings, he sees that babies drink milk and will tell me about babies and milk, and even goes so far as to call my coffee 'mommy's milk'. It's sweet. He will tell people 'babies need milk from their mommies'. I love it.

Here's another story: Lunch was at 1pm. As I work doing my course evaluation/review for this week, he played. At 3 he came up to me like he had something in his mouth. It was 3 pieces of un-chewed hot dog. He was sucking on them! FOR THREE HOURS! It's SO GROSS but he thought it was really funny. Anyway, it took like 10 minutes to convince him to chew them and swallow because he would not give them back to me! Now he has nasty hot dog breath.... but he sure keeps me on my toes...

We have a new babysitter, and she brought over some hard plastic animal figures. Elephant, reindeer, pig, horse, cow, lion, cheetah, panda, etc. He calls them 'his guys', and will make them bounce when they talk, and they will say, 'hello lion, hello pig', and then make the appropriate animal sound. Then he will make them stand on one another to look for daddy 'where's daddy? I don't see him', or go to sleep and then they snore. He cracks me up, and the details he is interacting with his world with amaze me. The point where I was 'in charge' of teaching him how to engage his world is passed, and now he learns for everything and everyone and I am contstantly amazed at where and how he must learn these things.

On the physical front, he can now climb up slides, and all sorts of other advanced scaling maneuvers. I think I have a future base jumper on my hands.... :)

Have I mentioned that bath bubbles are 'hot snow'. Another hilarious example of his logic skills in action.