Oh, How They Grow

Just to update you a little on Caris.  She is doing great.  At this stage in her life, she is sleeping great.  She has problems with wanting to sleep, which is something Caleb has always had, even now.  Caris does what a regular baby is suppose to do.  She sleeps.  She eats.  She poops.  And she doesn’t fuss much at all.  She didn’t even cry when she came out of the womb!  Relatively, she has been an easy baby.  We get less sleep because of her, but she does make it as easy as possible for us.

Compared to Caleb, it’s almost night and day.  Caleb was wailing the moment he came out of the womb.  Caleb couldn’t be soothe by simply holding him.  We had to pull out all the weapons to get to stop crying at times.  And then he didn’t want to sleep either.  He required to be held to sleep.  He’d cry whenever we put him down.  He hated the car seat.  No HATED the car seat.  From that first cry in his first ride home until he was tall enough to see outside, he’d cry in that car seat.

Not much has changed with Caleb.  He’s still the loud boy that he was born as.  He cries loud.  He screams loud.  He even talks loud.  But he’s our big boy.  And boy has he ever grown.  He’s learned to sleep (mostly) through the night.  He’s thickening up again.  His butt is so big.  His feet are so big.  His head is so big.  I went in tonight to go soothe him cause he was crying right after holding Caris, and my goodness.  I keep forgetting how big a boy Caleb is now.

Now we just need to protect his brain until he gets older.  There’s the cure for cancer in there.

Among the other things he’s grown into, he’s learned to talk.  And not just talk, but talk a lot.  They say a 2 year old boy can say an average of 50 words.  I said before I thought he knew about 80 words.  Well, he just keeps learning more and more each day.  We counted the words off the top of our head, and have them listed here.

  1. mama – Mommy
  2. dada – Daddy
  3. doo doo – Gung gung
  4. popo – Grandma
  5. bah – ball
  6. ba ba ba – blueberry
  7. uh oh – uh oh
  8. doo doo – reverse, backing up
  9. baahh bah – Bob (the Builder)
  10. poo poo – Poop
  11. watermelon
  12. banana
  13. water
  14. mango
  15. magnet
  16. strawberry
  17. up
  18. down
  19. help
  20. out
  21. more
  22. milk
  23. no
  24. bao bao
  25. head
  26. heart
  27. square
  28. bus
  29. duck
  30. dog
  31. squirrel
  32. deer
  33. mouse
  34. cat
  35. cow
  36. walk
  37. toast
  38. toes
  39. nose
  40. train
  41. hat
  42. diamond
  43. oval
  44. bike
  45. car
  46. star
  47. moon
  48. boz
  49. digger
  50. grandpa
  51. grandma
  52. natalie
  53. button
  54. computer
  55. gorilla
  56. done
  57. monkey
  58. crocodile
  59. butterfly
  60. bird
  61. horse
  62. rooster
  63. sheep
  64. bunny
  65. baby
  66. wagon
  67. tofu
  68. applesauce
  69. one
  70. bubble
  71. truck
  72. stuck
  73. light
  74. peek-a-boo
  75. fish
  76. bowl
  77. book
  78. turtle
  79. bear
  80. shoulder
  81. door
  82. goat
  83. boat
  84. fire truck
  85. airplane
  86. helicopter
  87. bye
  88. bucket
  89. booger
  90. open
  91. hot
  92. watch
  93. sock

There are probably more, but this is what we could remember.  If you count, that’s 93 words that we know of that he speaks.  Sure, they all sound very similar and he doesn’t say them correctly, but they are distinct.  Our big boy is a genius.

Of course he’s also very assertive.  I’ve been taking him to Gymboree the past few days while I’m home, and he likes them boys with curly hair.  He likes them a little too much.  So much in fact that he likes to pull their hair and hit them.  Or maybe he just likes to make them cry.  I don’t know.  But we have to channel him in the right direction.  At this point, he can be a great leader.  Or simply a bully.  The latter we’re trying to avoid.

Picture Time

Caleb with his new toy (our new massage thingy)
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Yvonne multi-tasking.  This is why she doesn’t get enough rest.  She always has to be doing something.
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Caleb eating.  He’s so big.
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Caris sleeping.  She’s so small
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Their feet.
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We got Caris’ first week pictures today.  But their printer was down.  Once we get the CD, we’ll post them up.  That last picture there was done by Kiddie Kandids.

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