Fix it man

Reid is always "fixing" thing these days.

He will find a stick, crayon, blade of grass, basically anything slim and then finds a hole to put it in. He's been doing this with food (shredded cheese, rice) into his straw for a very long time. He is very measured and precise.

But it has now changed to fixing things. If you ask what he's doing, he confidently answers "fixing it" or "fixing _____". At home he likes to knock over our plastic chairs and put crayons into the screws on the bottom. The tiny holes in door knobs are another favorite. He will do this quietly for 15 minutes!

And at the park he will put sticks in the playground screws over and over and over.

Will he grow up to be an engineer? Handy man? Architect?

Double the fun...and trouble

I love these two.

Wash one another's feet

Jesus set the example ...and Sierra followed...here she is washing her brother's "stinky feet"...

so spiritual :)

Mittens

Reid's favorite activity in the car:

1. Take shoes off
2. Take socks off
3. Put socks on hands - he calls them "mittens"

I turned around and said "where are your socks?" and he grinned proudly and said "Right here! Hands! Mittens!"

Language

Some kind of switch went off in Reid's brain and this little 19 month old is talking like a 2 year old - correct pronouns, sentences and possessive words! You can literally have conversations with him! I am in complete amazement.

* I went to get him from his crib this morning and he only had 1 sock on.
Me: "where's your sock?"
Reid: "Reid take it off."

* I was sitting in one of the kids' chairs and he comes over and says "(ex)cuse me. That's Reid's" and starts to push me off the chair!

* he loves to point out what things belong to each person: " that's Mommy's coffee", "Reid's turn first", "that's Sierra's. This Reid's",

* he is really figuring out the difference between "you", "me", "it", etc. he doesn't get them all right but is getting more and more accurate.
* he now says "sit next to me" and "help me pease" instead of "you"
* he says "it" when it's an object: "put it down", "close it up"
* he says "yours" and "mine" correctly

* manners: they're not just memorized phrases, he adds "please" to every request/command: "uppy (up) pease Poppa" (that's the one we hear the most. Poppa trumps us all!, "coot (scoot) over pease", "read a book pease", "help me pease"

He also has a new sense of entitlement now that he communicates so much ... and has also become quite bossy and persistent with his demands!

But he has me cracking up all day long and that smile just melts my heart!

First people drawings

She's a bit of a perfectionist and at first said she "couldn't do it" and "that doesn't look like Mommy!". So I coached her through one body part at a time saying "first draw the head. What shape is a head?...how many feet do we have?..."

And this is what she drew, all by herself :)

When I grow up...

"when I grow up, I want to be....a Daddy!"

Sierra has said this for almost a year now. Why? At first it was "So I can swim with my head under the water and blow bubbles." Then it was " so I can pick up Reid." and now it's "so I can put Reid to bed."

If you ask, she specifically does not want to be a Mommy. Just a Daddy.

I think it's precious.
:)