Representin'

So this past weekend when my sis was in town we went to Holiday Mart and there was so much to see.  We definitely had a good time and could've easily spent a full day there, but in the short amount we spent there we found a few unique items.

I have a new favorite shirt and so does Ben (or at least it's my favorite shirt for him).  Maybe it's the irony of the shirt that I like best or the fact that it's him wearing it - my son, who cries at the drop of a hat.


JoCo Tough! - So true!



He's still a handful, but a ton of fun especially since he's talking a lot more now which is awesome.  He can say (in his own terms - and these are our loose interpretations for his gibberish) outside, dog, dada, mama, papa, turtle, shoe, sock, sit, what's this, please, thank you, ball and his favorite...NO!  We've been working on our use of said word, but he still has that as his favorite and chooses to use it constantly.  If it's not outside (ow-sigh) or dog it's the word no.  What I love most is when we read to him and he tries to repeat the words you say.  He's really been working hard to put the sounds together to make them match.  The animal book is still one of his favorites and turtle and penguin are the two favorite animals in those books.  He can't quite say penguin although he tries (shenhoo is what comes out).

A few new things he's been doing lately that Bri and I can't resist are when he reaches out to hold our hand.  He uses this a little too much to his advantage though as generally we're being led to the door for outside play.  Apparently he's more of a take charge and director type of personality since his other trick is to sit down on the ground and then point to the spot next to him and say 'sit'.  He will repeat this word until you finally sit next to him and then a few seconds later he's up and moves about 5 feet away and does it all over again.  This is easier for Bri than I as my bump is starting to get bigger and getting up/down from the concrete driveway is not all that easy nor enticing.  He's also getting much better about stairs and he tries to take them on like a big boy if holding your hand - he prefers this actually.  He's even mastered the stairs on our lower deck outside which kind of made me sad.  He seems so big and grown up already!

Here's a video since it's been a while on that front.  The end is the best part!


Also - for those of you that don't know or don't read my facebook page, we are having a girl in March!  We had a sono two weeks ago and I'm just really delayed to get this updated here, but nonetheless, here's pics from the sono.


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