Oliver has started repeating everything we say. I have had to limit my exclamations to "Whoopsie!" and "Uh-oh!", though it doesn't always work. However, I find when my son repeats when I say, "Crap!", I feel like one of those parents. No thank you!
His other new game is finding his body parts! Currently, he can point to his nose, eyes, ears, mouth, chin, hair, head, elbow (Eh-BOW!), foot, hand, belly, and belly button (okay these last two are shockingly similar, but he does say "BE-BO!" when he touches his belly for belly button. It's from a book eveyone should own called The Belly Button Book
by Sandra Boynton, an author that every child needs to grow up with. Other favorites include Hippos Go Berserk
and Oh My, Oh My, Oh Dinosaurs!
Sorry for the tangent!). It astounds me that his little brain can hold all this information.I keep meaning to make a list of all the words he knows, but it's so long I always quit. A couple of months ago the list was about thirty. I'm sure it is more like fifty now, if you include that animal noises. My baby! The genius. You know those are Levi's genes, right?! HAR HAR, LEVI'S JEANS!
I love that Oliver still lets me tickle him. We have tickle fights about three times a day. He also gets super tickled when I scratch his back. I think it's adorable.
At bedtime, he snuggles up really close and lays his head on your shoulder and pats your back while you sing to him. We made up this song to the tune of "Oh My Darling" that is silly, but we have sung it for so long it just because part of bed/naptime. We sing, "Let's go ni-ni, let's go ni-ni, let's go ni-ni punkin boy, we will have us a good night (or nap) now, and we'll wake up later on. Let's go ni-ni, let's go ni-ni, let's go ni-ni stinker boy, we will have us some sweet dreams now, and we'll wake up later on." It's silly, but he loves it. And I love that it's our thing. Levi has taken to singing it to him too, which I think is super adorable. <3
Every day at 5:30pm, we watch a video together. Usually it's Baby Einstein
(today we're watching Baby Mozart!), but sometimes we watch Wonderpets, because it's on the Netflix Instant Q, and let's face it...Levi and I love to sing the songs. Mock if you want, but you will love them, too! This. Is. Sewious. After the video is over, Oliver knows that it is time to eat supper. We eat, then play, then it's off to bed at 7pm. We start all over again sometime between 7:30 and 7:45am the next day.Our boy is growing so quickly! He amazes me more each day. I'll keep updating about his awesomeness from now on. I don't want to forget a thing!
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