This month has seen marked progress in your vocabulary. Often you repeat "mama mama" over and over but now new things are creeping in and my trying to teach you animal sounds is working! You picked up a toy cow and said "Moo" today! And you are getting better are barking and making elephant noises.
Often when I tell you something, you understand. Go downstairs, let's find Hayley, etc." It's been very interesting watching you learn.We went camping this month. It was a very short trip, which was good considering we haven't been tent camping in a long time. We forget everything and
almost forgot more. No blankets, no condiments, no tongs, no fire clicker, all kinds of things the would have been helpful. We got there in the evening and set up our tent, then took
it down after breakfast the next morning. You were so happy to be outside for such a long time. Your attitude was "Dude! We're still outside! This rocks!" We were camped near a little playground and you and your sister had a ball playing in the sand pile, which was nice because it kept you safely occupied, but then you had sand everywhere. There's always a trade off, isn't there?
Food is still weird. You want whole pieces of everything to go with all your new
front teeth, but you don't have any molars, so chewing things is still difficult, but that doesn't stop you from throwing a fit if we give you cut up pieces of pizza
when you want your own whole slice to chew. You want what I'm eating, but you're done with your own food, but unless I give you whole pieces of chicken, you want nothing to do with the bits you can actually eat. It's a frustrating place to be.
I go back to school next week and I'm not excited for how much more I'll be
gone. I've enjoyed getting to be with you more in the last few weeks. I tried to make the time we had together fun by going to the park and going swimming and hiking.
I hope you had a good time as we head into fall, there will be lots of new memories to make.
Love you tons,
Mama
