New Things Daniel Can Do

Daniel now is tall enough to reach the door handles and close doors using door handles. Luckily he has not yet figured out how to twist the handle to open the door. I am thankful for that. He now tries to help wash himself in the bathtub. He will take his dirty diapers and put them in the trash can. He will try to use a q-tip and clean out his ear (they are the special type you cannot put to far into your ear). He tries to comb his own hair and put on his own shoes. He can take his bib off.

He will try to clean the table with a cloth. He loves to help vacumn and sweep. He likes to help mommy clean.

He is working on trying to eat with utencils, but still prefers using his hands.

He is starting to get a bigger vocabulary: He loves saying I do it. His newest words are wash, vrmm (for vacumn). He did say love you once, but it was only once.

He can climb up on chairs now with ease and then climb on the tables. This is enough to cause me to have a heart attack.

He loves playing with the remote and changing the channels on the T.V. He knows how to turn off and on all the buttons on the T.V. and DVD player.

He loves to color and draw. He also loves to have you read him a book all the time. He can pick out Elmo, Pooh, and Tigger from books. He can follow directions, such as put that back, but does not always listen.

He is doing so much more, but it is impossible to put everything done. I am so amazed at how much he has grown up. Oh, and he definitely has learned how to have a tantrum.

Such a Copy Cat!!

Daniel has become such a copy cat lately. It is good to see him learning though. He likes to take my lotions and put them on his feet, because he saw me doing that. Whenever I put lotion on he has to help rub it in. If he see you doing silly things with your feet he then goes and tries to do the same thing. He has watched us put keys into the door and regular door, so when he get's ahold of our keys, he tries to do the same thing. He basically tries to mimic everything you do. It is so adorable.

Gymboree

Today I took Daniel to the next level up in Gymboree (Level 4 for the 16-22 month olds). He was getting kind of bored in the Level 3 class. He loved and can I say loved the Level 4 class as it is less structed then the other class and he got to run around and play more. He also got to see some of his friends from the other class as they had moved up before him.

There was such a cute moment in class. Daniel went up and gave a hug to this one boy in class. Then like five minutes later Daniel was sitting next to the boy and the boy gave him a hug back. Everyone was like ahhh. It was so cute. Him and the other boy were getting along well. Daniel wanted to hug a couple other kids, but I think he was a little unsure. He really was not that bashful at all, which made me happy.

Pool Time!!

Here are some pictures of when we went to the beach last weekend. This was Daniel's first time in the pool. He really enjoyed being in the pool and he loved to splash the water. He also loved it when Dave and I would go under the water and bounce back up. I was so proud of him, as he did not cry at all.


Here is a picture of Dave with Daniel. Gee I wonder who Daniel looks like?

Daniel enjoyed watching the other kids in the pool playing.

Here Daniel is in his raft thing. He loved just floating in the water and splashing the water. He liked it when we pushed him all around the pool.

Funny Sleeping Positions!!

I just had to share all the interesting positions that Daniel fell asleep in while we were at the beach.

Yes, that is an ugly green chair, but it is a great chair to have in a condo at the beach. Yes, that is a bottle in his mouth, but that was the only way we could get him to sleep while we were down at the beach. He was having nothing to do with his pack-n-play if we just put in him there.

I really do not knwo how this position was even comfortable. He fell asleep on Dave.

This look was just much. I had to take a picture.