Peek-a-boo!

It probably seemed like we fell off the face of the earth -- a whole month has gone by! Henry turned 22 months yesterday and we're now just two months away from him being TWO!!! Yikes. Thought I'd just do a list of all the new and cute things I'm loving about him lately. I feel like if I don't write them down, I'll forget them for sure. I think I've already forgotten a few.

--- Loving "Papa"s. He's crazy about my dad and Daniel's dad, which is so stinky cute. He wants to sit on their lap, hold their hand, and talks constantly about "Papa." In the grocery store, anyone that has a mustache (my dad) or has white hair (Daniel's dad) is "Papa!!!" And sometimes the person that is being called Papa loves it and smiles and talks to Henry and some are like "Who you calling 'papa'?" and not so smiley. :) But it's cute everytime watching he gets so excited because he thinks he saw his Papa. Oh, and every surburban we see is "papa" too cause of my parent's cars. So adorable.

--- New words all the time. "Novel. Call. Playdough." And he strings words together like "Door. Keys. Bye-bye. Go. Car." in attempts to tell me that he wants to go the door, get the keys, go bye-bye in the car. Pretty advanced stuff, Henry. :)

--- Creating laughs is getting easier and easier. Daniel played a game with him the other day, saying "Pie in the sky up high, oh my!" because Henry's been noticing words that rhyme saying "Bye. Eye." out of the blue. This exclamation that Daniel does gets him going -- laughs and laughs and more laughs.

--- Lately he constantly wants to go bye-bye, but Daniel noticed today that he gets frustrated each time we get to where we're going, mostly the store. Daniel thinks when he says "bye-bye" he wants to go to the park because he's all about playgrounds right now. Slides especially. And he's so independent climbing up and sliding down (currently going down on his belly a lot).

--- Still really girl crazy with Elleny. Talks about her and loves when we get together to play with her. And they play so well together. No fighting... yet. :)

--- Big on singing "Happy Birthday." He usually  says "Happy. Papa." then I say "You want to sing Happy Birthday to Papa?" and he says "Yay-ya" (his cute way of saying yes) and then I sing Happy Birthday to papa. It may just be the first song he sings. We'll see.

--- Whining, which isn't so lovely, but we're working on it and we love you no matter what, Henry! :)

That's all for now. Here's a picture from last weekend with Daniel's parents. Kade and Kyra, Henry's cousins, turned 4 so we went to visit and sing "Happy Birthday!" :) Take care!

First haircut!

Before:

And after:

Video of the deed:

Henry got his first haircut this morning! It was definitely more difficult for Daddy and I than it was for him. He did great the whole time and was so quiet with his pacifier. He was a little suspicious about the lady with the scissors, but our smiling faces reassured him that she was okay. He looks like he had a complete makeover from baby to boy and looks so grown up. Where did our baby go?! But as much as I miss his baby-ness, I'm head over heels for his boy stage that's beginning.

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but so often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." -- Helen Keller

Bye-bye baby! Hello little boy! :)

Play me a tune

Another video. I told you I was going to upload a lot of videos. :) 

Henry's taken to harmonica playing lately and it's pretty darn cute. He even dances as he plays. Today we sat on the front porch (it was B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L here today) and he played the harmonica for me. I felt like I was down south. We were just missing B.B. King. :) 

Have a great one! Henry and I go to St. Louis on Friday for the weekend and I can't wait to see my family. How come 2 months can feel like 2 years sometimes! I'll post pictures when I get back. 

P.S. The curling iron in the video was not hot -- just watched the video and thought that it might look a little dangerous. Don't call DFS. :)

Taking measurements

Henry loves when he gets to play with most adult things and daddy's tape measure is right up as one of the most coveted adult things. He then precedes to take measurements just like daddy does. Pretty precious. More soon.

Henry's first kiss

We try to discourage kissing on the lips with Henry (germs), but I couldn't stop this one. We have been getting together with Elleny, the daughter of a friend from work, about once a week for about 6 months now. They play fabulously together and talk about one another throughout the week too. They both decided they wanted to wear hats and Elleny's mom was taking some pictures. Then the feeling must have struck Henry because he planted one on her before I could even react. We'll have to start practicing kissing on the cheek because it looks like love is in the air. :)

Without further ado

I figured the video thing out on YouTube. So I'll have lots of videos in the next couple of days that I will upload. We taped this the other day at breakfast as Henry learned how to blow bubbles. I love his laugh!

Click here to view it on YouTube

It's set as private so you won't be able to search on YouTube for it, but if you click on the link it will take you there. Okay let the video sharing begin! :)

Corn starch goop and cream cheese frosting

I read in a magazine about a fun activity to do with your toddler that involved mixing corn starch with a little bit of water to make this goop. Then you stir it up and talk about the texture and have them play with it. Sounded messy (which is was), but fun to try. So before dinner (first mistake) I thought we'd give it a go and plan a bath for later on because I knew it would get messy. Henry stirs it with me and then quickly starts eating it. I thought that he'd realize that it doesn't taste like anything and stop eating it... nope! A couple of spoonfuls later I took the activity away because I was not sure what all that corn starch would feel like in your tummy.

I then got dinner ready, he was obviously hungry! He ate a big dinner and for dessert had the mixers to lick from some cream cheese frosting I was making. Now that stuff was good -- butter, cream cheese and powder sugar = YUM!!! He liked it too, as evidenced by the pictures.

I thought we could try the corn starch goop again, this time with a full belly. Two big heaping spoonfuls later, I decided I might have to wait a couple of years to reintroduce this toddler activity. Henry will eat ANYTHING, which works in my favor often, but activity time often ends in me having to remove the sand, the soapy water, the playdough, and I guess the corn starch, too. :)

Daniel's dad gets surgery on his hand tomorrow. He's getting his thumb joint replaced and we're all hoping all goes well. We're thinking of you, Kenny!

On a really random note, does anyone know a good website to download a video to share? I tried here on blogger and on YouTube and both take about 12 hours to download a 2 minute clip and then say it couldn't upload. hmmm. Just wondering if anyone out there has a better idea. I've got some pretty cute videos I'd like to share, but I'll just have to send you all a DVD if I can't figure it out. :)

Take care and try that corn starch goop thing out. It is really cool how it's really hard if you forcefully stick your finger in it, but if you go slow it sinks in, kinda like quicksand. Try it, just don't eat it. ;)