so compassionate

Today lP was having a grumble tantrum, rolling around on the floor.  B was so cute.  He got down on the floor and hugged lP.  Then he got rolled over the the other side of her and he gave her a kiss on the cheek.  B really tries to comfort people.  I love that he does this so innately.  Back in May, a boy at church was crying in nursery.  B kept trying to offer the boy toys.  B stayed right near the boy trying to help.  He's so sweet.

Favorite things

B has a nightly routine for after the big kids have gone to bed.  He plays in the fire pit for a while.  Then around 9:30 he asks for milk and Signing Time.  He watches 1 or 2 episodes, then goes to bed.  He also takes some favorite thing to bed.  Sometimes it is a duplo character or vehicle, rarely a stuffed animal.  Last night he took the 2 copies of "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" to bed.

sleep

B began sleeping in the playpen when his need for kicking in the night exceeded my ability to ignore said kicking.  He liked having the netted sides to struggle against.  He slept there for a few months.  In preparation for L, we decided to move B to the bottom bunk in G's room.  The first night he cried as I lay next to him for 10+minutes, and then went to sleep.  But the next night he just lay singing with me, then P, then me, then P for about an hour before finally sleeping.  The next night he went to sleep after I sat in a chair in the room for 15 minutes.  And that's what I've been doing ever since.  I sit on a nice comfortable wooden chair and breathe.  Sometimes we hold hands a bit.  It's great.

climbing trees

He may be 2 months shy of his second birthday, but B loves to climb trees.  He figures that if G, M and lP do it, it must be the best thing ever. 

His language is delayed compared to our other children, even G who had no language input until 12 months old, sheesh!  But nobody smiles bigger when their "eh!" is understood to mean whatever it is supposed to mean.

getting older and more cute

 bB went with G and me to a check up at shands.  The room was really nice.  I wish we'd had this sort of nice room when we were going through treatment.  But then, when we were going through treatment I would never have let G play with anything we found in a clinic room.

 bB is really into the phone.  He will hold random toys up to his head.  He wants the phone whenever I'm on it.  It seems new with every kid.  I don't remember the others doing it so much.

 bB likes to throw the swing and chase it around.

In DC we got to have the kids play in a Cesna at the Udvar-Hazey Air and Space Museum Extension.  I love this.

catching up

bB was late to walk and late to sign.  We were worried about him.  In the last month he's learned to walk and 8-10 signs.  So suddenly he's all caught up.  And he's got special tricks, like signing Diaper when he wants a change.  His signs are:
More
Please
Water
Eat
Milk
Bird
Help (variation)
Diaper
Go
Mine

 This is bB at 12 months, not walking but climbing up onto stools in the kitchen.

Now that he walks, at 15 months, he keeps climbing.  He loves to slide out of this chair between the back and seat, like he's on the Dukes of Hazard.  He's so tall that he has been opening doors for months.