September 09

We recently announced that we are expecting a second child in April 2010! Yay! It's been a challenging past few weeks with all the symptoms that go along with the first trimester for me; lots of all day nausea, tiredness, weakness, dizzyness etc. Fortunately, the end of the first trimester is in sight with the promise of resolving most of my complaints.

William has been picking up new words to add to his vocabulary everyday. He is becoming rather good at saying most of the letters of the alphabet and identifying some letters and numbers. (He can i.d. A, B, C, D, F, I, M, N, O, P and 8 and 9.) He is starting to put three words together to get his point across. (ex: No Baba (milk)? splays hands in gesture that he is missing something, Mama Baba Yay! and claps hands = I don't have milk, mama please get me milk and I'll be so happy.) When he wants us he says, Mama Yay!, Dada Yay! and claps his hands. He often says "Papa Car or Papa boat" lately. I think the day his Papa revved the Morgan's engine left an impression on him and he definitely remembers going out on the row boat with Papa and Dada.

Some of his favorite words are: ball, boat, car, truck, Mama, Dada, Papa, up, baba, nana (blanket), go, no, ahaa (yes), hmm, wow, vroom, whale, book, more, please, eye, nose, knee, bee, baby, woof woof, animal noises, letters, etc.

He loves to play the stop and go game.

He loves to pretend to put his animals to bed at night with Daddy. They kiss and tuck each one in with his blankets and he lays down next to them and happily goes to sleep without screaming when Andrew leaves the room. He will even make a snoring noise to pretend that they are sleeping. It doesn't work as well when I do it, he tends to scream when I leave, but it's only for a minute or two. Bedtime is so much better now that he and his daddy have their storybook routine.

He is starting to like coloring and hardly ever eats crayons anymore. He doesn't really like doing art projects at school. He has two school programs that he goes to on Wednesdays and Thursdays. One where he is dropped off at gymnastics and has a 2.5 hour day and a second where I go with him to Encompass for a couple hours. He seems to be getting used to and even enjoying the gymnastics program and is getting the hang of the routine at Encompass.