amusement

A couple of weeks ago, the baby learned how to blow out..like on a horn or maybe if we had candles, he'd be able to blow them out.  My cousin got him this plastic saxophone for Christmas that he used to just ask all of us to play for him.  When I say "ask", I actually mean he'd push the sax in front of our face.  Now if we hold down the keys, he can actually make the sound come out of it.  Very exciting indeed.  My hubby also got him some sort of horn for his birthday (where you don't have to press any keys down to create a sound) and he can totally use it now on his own instead of making fake sounds with his own voice.  So cute.  It's crazy to watch a child develop and see what he can do now and what he couldn't do before because you can see how they are definitely a sponge just soaking up all this information that is bombarding them at every second.  Some might be new information, some might be repetitive but it's all being absorbed and translated and spit out in some form or manner.  He now takes people's keys and tries to unlock the wall...too short to reach an actual door.  ha.  He takes my phone and starts tapping at the screen.  He can't really say any words, but it's amazing to see that he can totally comprehend what you're saying..like when I read him his Elmo book and it says, "Baby Elmo points to his nose," he does it too, or he even jokes around and points to his teeth sometimes..and he touches his toes or plays peekaboo just like in the narrative.  All these things that he understands now is really mind blowing to me. 

Since he can't really say any words, I do tend to assume he's in his own little strange baby talk world but in actuality he's listening and watching and learning..And I suppose he's trying to talk to us too, but I have no idea what the heck he's saying.  You know how some babies are quiet and will only say a few monosyllabic sounds?  Not this kid - he babbles, grunts, screams, speaks like Jabba the Hut, you name it whatever sounds he can invent and muster up.  He also does this motorcycle type sound with his lips - a repetitive  bbbbbbbbbb.  I don't know what you call it exactly but it's like something you'd do to warm up the lips, instead of rolling "r"s with your tongue, he's rolling "b"'s with his lips and it's actually kind of hard to do for a long period of time, but he can do it for quite awhile. I think he learned it from one of his baby pals. 

I try to catch all this on video but he hears the beep of my camera (which I can't seem to silence) and he stops what he's doing.  He doesn't really like posing for photos anymore either.  He keeps running away or just blankly staring so my photos haven't been the best lately. 

And since we're speaking of the fast growth and development of babies, he finally fit into his pseudo converse hi-tops and then a couple weeks later, they're too small!  For so long, they were too big and he kept kicking them off.   Now that he's walking and actually needs shoes, it was such a small window that he could wear these before his heel started pushing past the boundaries of the foot bed.. What the heck? 

On another tangent, it's almost my one year wedding anniversary..seems quite fast.. I think my hubby said it felt so much longer haha.  Does that mean I'm quite a nuisance?  We never went on a honeymoon..we didn't have time really with a 2 mos old baby.  We did go away on a mini-moon weekend trip to Philly which was nice but it wasn't Hawaii or Italy or whatever else normal tropical escape that it should be.  But I guess, nothing has been the norm with us.  But I wouldn't have it any other way.  We are planning a weekend getaway which should be nice.  My parents so graciously will babysit.  I think I've said it before, but they totally love and adore the baby.  Who cares about seeing me or my sister anymore.  It's all about the grandchild now. :) Every time I see them with him, I still keep remembering the time I first brought up that I was pregnant and how "disappointed" my mom was in me...and all my friends said, "oh, you just wait until the baby is born, it will all be forgotten."  So right they were - it was a full 360 degrees and then some.