My friend Liz visited us yesterday and brought Henry an oatmeal raisin cookie. He did the exact same thing with the cookie my brother gave him which was to hold it in his mouth and suck on it with both his hands clinging to the edges of it. It's like he doesn't want the cookie to ever leave his mouth so he doesn't chew it--he just holds it in place till it dissolves.
Anyway, last night Justin baked cookies for his work party and as he was leaving this morning I said, "Don't forget your cookies" so he went to go get them. On his way out the door Henry started jumping up and reaching for them and saying cookie, cookie, cookie--but there was no way to tell that's what they were!
So the first new parenting milestone:
We have to start spelling, especially things like c o o k i e. And we definitely have to stop swearing. Perhaps we can just spell our s h i t s and d a m n s?
And second:
Keep your hands to yourself.
(I said this last week at the playground and I practically started snorting as it flew out of my mouth unexpectedly. Such a parenting top 10! I feel so initiated.)
In other news, I really can't count the amount of words Henry can now say. I guessed it was 50-60 but it's got to be way more than that. He is saying at least 2-3 new ones a day. Yesterday was HUGE. He said the two most powerful words in the English language. "Help" and "thank you". He also gave his first command, "sit". He wanted me to sit in the sand box with him, not on the bench.
He's only been up 3 hours today (he's taking a nap now since he woke at 5:30) and he's already said a new word. "Bat". An important new word for an Austinite.
New word UPDATE at 1:40 PM CST
He now says "eat"
Enjoy your spelling phase while it lasts. Mine learned how to spell (funny what happens when you send them to school) and now they can not only interpret things we spell, but they can interpret things we spell backwards. Since my husband remembers none of his high school French, we're out of codes!
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