This is for you, Jess

Are you happy?  I’m blogging.  Sheesh!  🙂 HAHA.

Ok, hmmm what to write. I’ve been in such a funk lately. I feel so anti-social. I don’t want to talk to people on the phone. I’m grumpy.  I’m mean.  What the heck is up with me?  I seriously think its the holidays.  Unlike most people, I always feel a bit depressed around the holidays.  The stress just ruins the fun of it for me, I guess.  I don’t know. 

So, I guess thats a starter for my post, huh? Well, lets see.  What can I update.

Porter is doing sooo many neat things lately.  He’s TALKING!!  It just blows my mind.  But amongst his limited vocabulary are these words:

Hi! said in a sweet little enthusiastic voice, almost shyly, and most often with his mouth open really wide and his eyes ‘smiling’

Dog which sounds more like "dawww" and sounds pretty much like every other da-daw-dahhh that he makes, but if you ask "Where’s your dog?" he says "Dawww" and heads right to the gate by the basement stairs where the dogs are

Dada (big surprise… he’s been saying this for months. I’m just glad he’s adding more words to his vocab.  I’m sick of "Daa DAAAAA DAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!" when he’s mad)

Mama  YES!! MAMA! YES!  Finally.  Ok, so it doesn’t sound like Mama. Its more like "Nonna" think "mama" but with n’s.  Either that or Grandma Barczak has really been pushing the "nana" super hard on her Tuesdays with Porter!  HAHA.  Really, though, I stress the word "MAMA" to him a million times a day- usually when he’s beating the word DADA like a dead horse- so, I’m pretty sure he’s saying Mama. And sometimes it does come out with m’s not n’s.

BaBa I’m not quite sure what this word is yet.  My aunt today said he cried "BAA BAA" when she put him down for his nap. (we’ve gotten into a bad habit of putting him to bed with the last few ounces of his bottle, as thats the only way to keep his concentration on his bottle and not everything else in the room… so now he’s gotten used to drinking his bottle in bed… bad parents! BAD!  But he also says "Bah" sometimes when people tell him ‘bye bye’

Thats about it for his words.  We’re starting to teach him Baby Signs.  It all started when he began giving us his "sign" for "all done eating"…. sticking his tongue out, spitting and hitting our hands away.  Yikes. Time for a new form of communication, no?  So, we mainly want to give him the means to communicate with us on main things like EAT, ALL DONE, DRINK/BOTTLE, MORE.  And then we’ll work on PLEASE and THANK YOU a little later.  I’m not sure if we’ll get too into it, as I’m simply hoping it’ll help him tell us things instead of him inventing his own… which so far are not too fun for us.  LOL.

He also does Pat-A-Cake soo cute.  He does the hand clap and the roll-it-up hand motions!  Its adorable to see his little arms rolling around to the rhyme.

He is getting more daring with his standing/cruising. He fearlessly stands with one hand, or with no hands and just leans on whatever he’s standing next to, he’ll reach out as far as he can lean and reach to get to another object (a person, the coffee table etc) and he walks inbetween the couch and the coffee table- holding onto the couch with one hand and the coffee table with the other.  He’s moving so well now.  Everyone things he’ll be walking by Christmas. Hmm we’ll see.  He doesn’t stand on his own yet, other than if he’s leaning on something.

Oh and check this out… what do you do when there’s nothing in the middle of the room to pull yourself up to, except a big ol dog?

Why, you use the dog to stand up!  Yes, Porter uses Sam’s excess skin and fur to pull himself up to stand next to him. What a patient dog we have.

(NOTE: the suckies have been thrown away!!!) 

Ok, I guess thats enough for now.  Not much else to write about.  Boring life lately.