February Fun

We are off to a great start for 2012 and keeping busy! Gage is the main attraction and one word describes him best, "Go!" He is a non-stop mover and loves to be playing, investigating, and helping. He is always on the move and amazes us with how quickly he learns. We have to be careful because once he watches us do something once, he picks it up and is ready to duplicate the act/behavior with incredible turn around time!! :)

No, Gage is not duplicating Rob and I dumping bowls on our head :) This is just Gage being Gage :)

Gage loves to watch photos stream on the computer or the digital photo album 

 This is Gage playing his version of "Rrrraaarr!" He says "rrarrrr" to someone then runs away laughing

 Helping daddy get ready in the morning

 And then of course practice time for himself :)

 Gage has a few shows that he likes to watch: Chugginton, Bob the Builder, and Bubble Guppies

 But he will only watch t.v. for about 3-5 min........every once and awhile we can get about 10-15 min of quiet time from him but that is on rare occasion

 This little table is now in the basement as he has outgrown it and prefers to tip it over rather then play with it

 Dancing to music; still a fav

Eating animal crackers with Daddy

 

When we saw this we decided it was finally time to get him a pillow!! (Working for the Milwaukee Child Welfare System and seeing all the SID statistics made me one paranoid mom--that is why he made it this long without one, but I feel he is big enough to have one and he finally has one that he loves :) ) * He now also has a blanket in his crib :) *

 FINALLY.........NO MORE OF THIS DURING CHURCH!!!

 

Because the long awaited day of hearing those magical words has come......."Your child is now 18 months old and can go to nursery!!"  One of the nursery teachers watches Gage on Tue/Wed/and Fri so he really didn't have trouble warming up and going in. I stayed with him for about five minutes and then left for the first two Sundays. After I would leave he would stay close to Sarah and was a bit cautious of playing if she wasn't near, but he is doing great now. As excited as I was to not be chasing him for two hours, I still shed a few tears after I dropped him off because it means he is growing up faster then I want him to!!

Grandpa sent Gage a new Teddy because the other one got blood on it from when he fell and needed stitches.  We were able to get the old one cleaned and we tried to get him to just pick one of the Teddy's, but he has to have them both now :)