What do you start with?
Will starts with W. Turn it upside down and it's an M for momma, and Ms and Ws are all over the place! Will is learning his letters and can quickly point out the ones he knows. Mostly Bs, Cs, Ms and Ws because these are the letters that start his friends' names. Ben is also learning his letters at school, according to Will. And, I suppose to some extent he's correct.
Will is ever enraptured with music. And what joy, he was given a harmonica for Christmas *thanks Mom and Dad*. I enrolled him in a computer class for kids called Gigglebytes, offered through his daycare. The other day they learned about CD ROMs and the difference between DVDs and music CDs and his teacher left a note for me: "Will enjoyed the music - lots of dancing!" I wouldn't have expected anything less!
Will's marshmallow snowmanHe's full of imagination and flits from one activity to the other. These days his brain is running much faster than his mouth especially when he gets really excited or has a complicated scene in his imagination he wants us all to act out. Some of my favorite new phrases are, "yup, that'd be good" and "Yeah, that's the plan" or " That a good plan?" Not sure if it's genetics or being a product of his environment, but he's quickly becoming our next generation of planners.
Jack on the other hand can entertain himself with one task for 15 to 30 minutes at a time. He spent a good portion of an evening putting a toy in a cup and taking it out again. He'd sit on the kitchen floor and put it in and take it out. Then he'd carry it to the living room repeating the action. I watched him move all over the house with his toy and cup taking a moment to see what Will was doing and then back to his work. He'll also spend just as much time with the dust pan and brush.
He loves to sit on stools and in his Bumbo chair, anything just his size. Jack loves to loll around the house. If there is any soft thing on the floor (pillow, blankets, pile of clothes...not that I have any of those) you'll find Jack reclined on it, most likely with a book or the remote control in his hand. He loves the remote control.
Jack gives hugs and kisses so freely to me and to Will. It's really very sweet.
He's becoming a smooth walker now and is constantly babbling. There's lots of upfs, puhs, ohs, uhrs, ahs, and squeals *thank you Will* but his vocabulary is still mostly limited to "mama". One of the daycare teachers speaks to him in Spanish and she says he said "agua" (water). I don't know if he did or not, but I'd like to think that he's on his way to being bilingual. He has learned to shake his head "no" and does so when I tell him no as he continues to do what I'm telling him not to do. Trouble much, yes. Adorably cute, yes yes!
Jack's 11 month pictures
(it's getting increasingly harder to capture these shots!!!)
