Dear Munchkin,
You’ve been having a rough time the last week. You had a case of pinkeye along with a cold and at least two new molars coming through. Here is your pooping pose lately…you seek comfort and support under the table between two of the chairs. Sometimes, you play peek a boo with us from under the table while you’re doing your business. At the time when this picture was taken, however, doing your business did not leave you in a playful mood.
Your vocabulary has expanded. You try to mimic all the words Mommy and I say to you. You try to harumphhhhh like an elephant when we see one in your picture books, and last night you even howled like a wolf when I showed you how. Words like “Boo,” “PopPop,” “Mama,” “Bye Bye,” and “night night” are your mainstays, but you’ve also added “DaDa,” “Nana,” “shoes,” and Mommy taught you where your tummy, elbow, nose, eyes, and knees are.
Nathan and Avery visited over President’s Day.
One Friday evening, we all went to the Barking Dog Alehouse and Saloon. On the walk home, you wanted to walk by yourself, so Mommy stood by you to guide you over the curbs. We all started singing, and then we started stomping to the words of the song. When we added clapping, I forgot that I was pushing the stroller, and it rolled down a steep driveway and met with a “BANG,” in someone’s garage door. The lady in the house looked out the kitchen window as I was pulling the stroller from the incline….I waved innocently to her to let her know we were all ok. But she must have been suspicious because she sent her husband out the front door to investigate. By the time he made his way outside, Mommy and you were the closer to him, so Mommy apologetically told him, “Sorry. “My husband lost control of the stroller.”
I am so thrilled how you instantly start to sway and bounce whenever music is played. Yesterday we went to your first concert….Caspar Babypants. Caspar was up on the small stage playing his guitar and singing while dozens of toddlers bounced in the mosh pit in front of him. We put you on the fringe of the mayhem, but you were a bit too young to enjoy it and bounce like you do to most music. Instead you watched all the kids singing and being silly.
Here’s my 1 Second Everyday video for January and February of 2015. Since I got a new phone on January 16th, however, I am missing the first 15 days of January, which is aggravating. I want ALL of those seconds together because it is so fun to see what you’re up to. I will recapture and fuse those lost seconds by the end of the year.
Spring Break this year was an eventful visit to Washington, D.C. Nana an Poppop hosted us AND Grammy and Grandpa Chuckles for four days at their place. While you were with Nana and Poppop, Grammy, Chuckles, and I toured the U.S. Capitol building, took a bus tour of the city, and saw Man of La Mancha (and dinner at Central) downtown. We took you with us to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and a walk around the Tidal Basin where the Cherry Blossom Festival was underway. Your grandparents got along very well and were thrilled (and exhausted) by you, charming them with your shrieks and endless jabbering. For me, it was a great break, getting away from school and seeing DC, even though Mommy had to stay home and work. She got to rest and spend some time on her own….one night for dinner she had a bowl of cereal and a beer!
I’ve been working hard preparing for my presentation at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in Boston. I present in four days, something I’ve been looking forward to and preparing to do for a long time. This will be a solo trip for me. I’ll miss you and Mommy, but I can’t wait to get on that plane and read, sleep, watch a movie, all by myself.
Love, Daddy