What Daniel is Up To!!

I thought for this update of what Daniel can do. He has grown up so much.

• He can wash his hair, as long as I put some of the soap in his hand. he can also wash his belly as long as I put some soap in his hand. I do not let him get the soap out of the bottle himself as I know he would just get more and more soap out of the bottle then is needed. He is also learning how to wash his arm's.


• He is learning how to eat with a spoon and a fork. He is getting so much better with the spoon. He can almost eat a whole bowl of oatmeal by himself using the spoon. Dave use to get so upset when I would give Daniel a spoon or fork to try to eat his food, as he would make such a mess, but I had a method to my madness. Afterall how is he suppose to learn.
• His new trick is taking off his diaper at bath time. The other day I turned around and he was there butt naked. He did it for Dave the other night.
• He tries to put away Dave's tools that he pools out.
• He can now pull the blinds down with the cords.
• He says the following words: arm, duck, "ack" (vacumn), hot, good night, up, do it, da da, out, go, dog (favorite word), cat, wash, brush, yes, no, drink, want, snack, "ouch" (for touch), "bupcake" (cupcake), wash, get it, "sawberry" (strawberry), "ash" (trash), wash, good night and there are others.
• He knows how to take his pants off. Not happy that he has learned this.
• Learned how to push chairs around to climb onto what he wants to.
• Knows how to dispense cold water out of the water dispenses. Why we now have it blocked off.
• Knows where the DVD's go. He takes them out of their containers and then tries to put them into the DVD player.
• Knows how to be a VHS into the machine. Yes, we still have one of those.
• He remembers where all the dogs live at in our neighborhood, so when we go for our walk, he has to try to go and visit everyone of them.
• He knows where most of his body parts are, but for some reason his nose he never can say where that is, but he knows where mine is, as he will grab for it and it feels like he is trying to rip it off.
• He tries to comb his own hair.
• Brush his teeth - well as good as a 17 month old can.
• He will try to brush my hair, but it is more like beating me with the brush.
• He will clean his highchair table if you give him a cloth.
• He will put water in his sippy cup from the water vender machine if you let him.
• He also loves to mimic the sound of a fire truck of ambulance or police car when he hears them.

There is so much more he is doing that it is impossible to put it all in here.