This month has been a month of growth in speech, signs and physical development. He is so much more aware of things around him. When we are driving, he spots big trucks, dump trucks, diggers, dogs and hats everywhere. I never realized until now how many people wear hats until recently. Josiah tells me about every hat he sees (and sometimes if he is just thinking about them) by saying “ha” (like hat but without the t) and patting his head which is the sign for hat.
His favorite place to be is outside. Often, while we are home and playing, he crawls to the door and starts saying “bye bye” and then whining to go outside. He can get quite dramatic about it with tears and everything. Thankfully, the weather has been beautiful and we go outside a lot. What do we do outside? We push a stroller up and down the sidewalk, walk around the yard picking up leaves and sticks,pull flowers off the plants when momma isn’t looking, stuff like that. Or we play at the park and push other people’s strollers and watch busses drive by.
Josiah’s speech and signing have exploded this month. Let’s see if I can remember all the words he says: bye bye, baby, ball (like baaa-baall), banana (ba-na), bubble, no (na na), Daddy, cracker (cacka), tractor (tackta), digger (di-di), truck (only I can understand that one), and ba ba for pacifier, and he says something for apple, but it’s another that only I can understand. He mimics a lot of things we say, but not very well. He now signs (thanks to Baby Signing Time): hat, dog, bus, sleep, airplane (sometimes), finished, eat, more, please, fish, and every once in a while, car. I might be forgetting something, but you get the idea. It’s a lot of fun how much he communicates these days. We look at books and he signs fish for every fish he sees, same for dogs, hats and tongues (yes, he will stick his tongue out like a dog or bear in his animal books). He also has a bird sound, “whoo whoo” like an owl, which he does when he sees birds, hears them, or if we drive into our garage and he sees the fake owl.
He also took his first steps on Monday! He is getting much better at balancing, and will take a step or two before falling to his knees if we let go of his fingers. He has also been eating more table foods, or at least sampling things, and eating more food in general. Josiah has started throwing tantrums lately. This is no fun for anyone as he arches his back and screams and cries when I am trying to put him in his car seat or stroller. I’m praying for wisdom on how to handle it, and on really tough days, it’s good to watch him sleep.
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