Tales of Li'l Foot

Yes, this is two weeks late…sorry!!!  I’l do better next month!!! (Wait, didn’t I say I’d do better with doing this post on time last month too?  Oh well!!!

This past month has again been a rollercoaster of illnesses.  From ear infections to boogers, to coughing and sneezing, and lest we forget the poop…oh my gosh the poop!!!  Darn antibiotics are evil, I tell ya, pure evil, until they’ve run their course and made LF all better and the poop stops being so foul!!!  But I should note, this month was with less puke…so there’s that to be grateful for!!! 

But let’s not dwell on the illnesses this month, because really?  I’m over it and actually you are too!!  Let’s talk about other things, shall we?

Let’s talk about your ever expanding vocabulary for a second!

flower (“fa-fa”)

juice

bubble (“bu-bool”)

yes (thank goodness…”no” needed it’s positive friend!)

CD (“ceeeEeee”)

please

thank you

cereal (“ceeeEal”)

shoes

socks

down

outside

bottie (this is where I confess I called my blanket bot when I was a kid (ummm…still do and it might live under my pillow), and am passing on the tradition and LF has made her own version of it by adding on the “tie” at the end…pronounced…bot-tee!  Cutest darn thing EVER!!!)

(I’m sure there are more, just can’t think of them right this moment…I really should write them down as the month goes along!)

This month we taught you “Hot Feet”!  This would be the phenomenon which has you marching quickly in place so as to get your little feet up and off the floor because oooooch…hot feet, hot feet, hot feet!!!  (We discovered in other corners of toddlerville, your friend, baby Dorkus and family do the same routine only it’s called “Happy Feet”…heehee!!!)

I’m not sure why but you have developed this fascination with putting on your jacket.  It’s very funny.  You stand under the bench in the front hall and point up to the hook with your sweatshirt and say “prettyprettyprettypretty”.  Apparently you equate being pretty with putting on your jacket!!!  My best guess at this bizarre phenomenon is you LOVE being outside.  If you could live, sleep, breath and eat the outdoors, you’d be as happy as the Pope in his red shoes!!!  So what I can gather is that when you want to go outside you communicate this to us by saying “prettyprettypretty” which tells us to put on your jacket.  The problem is, we can’t ALWAYS go outside when YOU want to, like when it’s dark (mommy’s scared of the dark) and when it’s raining (I like rain and all but you’ll just get sick again and I can’t have that!).  It’s at these times that we simply put your jacket on and then make you walk around the house with it on.  It seems to work most times.  Other times, not so much, but eventually you get over not being able to go outside and all is well.

We’ve been visiting the park and the playgrounds more and more as the weather has become warmer.  You absolutely LOVE the playground.  The swings are always the first stop…ALWAYS!!!  And then you like to climb.  LORD have mercy, you love to climb.  Whether you are simply climbing onto the couch via your Adirondack chair arm or taking on other climbing feats a bit to big for your britches, you want to climb, and goodness…you want to do it by yourself!!!  (Nerves?…mommy has none!!!  Actually daddy is more the nervous-Nelly on this front!!!)

Another thing…what’s up with the carousel at the mall this month?  Last month?  The carousel? In the mall? Loved, loved, loved!!!  This month?  The same carousel?  In the mall?  Not so much.  Oh sure, you suffered through it, and survived but it’s not on your top ten things you love to do anymore.  What happened?  Last month you would not let us leave the mall without riding the carousel, yet this month, you detest the carousel and could’ve passed it by, no problem!!!  I don’t get it.  Perhaps we’ll try again next month and see how it goes.

We should probably talk about church too.  While yes in your early months of life you “slept” through mass on Sunday mornings?  Not really the case these days.  You are all go, all the time!!!  We can only distract you for so long and then you want to get down and run around like you own the church.  So we’ve resorted to taking you to the back, and then all you want to do is run out of the doors of the church and down the ramp and, and, aaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!  Can’t they just speed up the Mass.  As it is we go to the uber-early mass at 8 o’clock and there’s no music and no filler, just the basics and only lasts a ½ hour.  You now realize you love Fr. William (whom we also love as well), and we sit pretty close to the front, so when he says his homily you pay attention to him.  You’ve taken to saying hi to him, only it’s more of a “Hi-hi-hi-hi-hi-hi-hi-hi” and you don’t really stop saying Hi until he acknowledges you and says hi back!!!  And then of course the entire congregation erupts in fits of giggles and I feel the burning stares through my head from all sides!!!  Oy…it’s going to be a long road to teaching you how to behave in church!

All in all a good month, mostly noting a toddler on a mission to independence!!!