thar she grows!

milo's first two-year-molar has been sighted.  it must have been coming through for the past week (of which milo spent at grandma's daycare again, since ben has been working for his dad, and of course, i'm still in the 9-5 grind... cue dolly parton), because now it's about halfway visible...  it's the bottom left, and my guess is the bottom right isn't too far behind, but no matter how much i try to get him to roar like a lion so i can get a better look, i think he sees right through my games.

book worm.

milo's new thing when we're getting him ready for bed each night is that he doesn't want us to read the book, he just wants to hold it to his chest, arms wrapped around it like he's hugging a dear fuzzy friend, while we recite bedtime stories from memory, and pray, and sing lullabies.

his book of choice is always Grover's New Kitten, which actually belonged to me from when i was a child, and i loved it.

when it comes time to lay him down, he doesn't cast the book aside or want to put it away or give it back to us. oh no sir. (or ma'am.)  he continues to keep his arms loosely cradling its sturdy cover and board-book pages.

we put him in his crib with a kiss and well-wishes for a good-night slept tight, and he rolls over on top of the book, content.

come morning, the book is usually in some opposite corner, but by evening, he needs it in his arms once again.

such a goof...

milo loves peas (most of the time).  he'll shovel them in by the fistful.  however, he doesn't like the skins.  he's like a bird peeling off the skins on birdseed.  he chews and chews and chews those peas, and when he thinks he's gotten it all, he pushes out the skins and puts them back on his tray (we've had to work on that with him... he used to just spit out the skins onto his lap).

say WHAAAAAAT?!

recently milo's vocabulary has been exploding like a michael bay blockbuster.  here's the most up-to-date list of words he's been saying - most of which around grandma B or grandma Z:

buh (please)
nooooo
all done!
all gone!
go!
dada/daddy
momma
more
vroom (for a car)
gaaaarrrrr! (to roar like a lion)
scrunches his face and snorts (to "oink" like a pig)
uh-oh
ohhhhh
gak gak! (very high pitched, to "quack quack" like a duck)
ga-ma (grandma)
choo choo (for the train)
meuh (to moo like a cow)
hiya! (hi)
tay-ooo (thank you)
i did it!

two's company

along with other things i forgot to post about in my post about things i forgot to mention, milo got his second haircut.  more recently, he has another new freckle, in the crook of his left elbow.

i'm not entirely sure what to make of his two little dots.... they're so foreign, but he will never remember not having them.

also, i got a job, he's in daycare and we're moving (if you know us, you probably knew that, but just in case you didn't... there it is.)

thankfully he's in daycare with grandma until ben's done with work.  which also means he's down from two naps to one.  except on the weekends, because he still seemed to need two yesterday, and i'm hoping he'll want two today.

he makes a lion's roar by going "gaaaarrrrr" and he'll imitate a monkey with high pitched "ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

and every once in awhile, he'll wake up peacefully and simply say "all done."  i love it when he wakes up like that instead of screaming for us.

and how could i forget?

milo had his 18 month checkup on monday. he had his last shot of immunizations and that'll be it till his FIVE! yay! (excluding the flu shot, of course....)

he weighs 28 pounds and is 33.5 inches tall. (almost 3 feet!) the did a toddler autism spectrum questionnaire, all yes or no questions. one of them was "if your child oversensitive to noise?" to which i responded yes, since just the other day when i ran the vacuum cleaner, he started screaming and freaking out. turns out that's a typical sensitivity to noise, and milo's fully on the "normal" side of the spectrum (whatever "normal" means these days...)

and lastly, another new trick i forgot about, he's started blowing on his food, especially if it's how or he sees me blow on it. it's pretty cute how he puts his face mere inches away from the food on his tray, and makes more of a spitty, almost-raspberry, rather than a soft woosh of cool air.

the sniff test

milo's newest accomplishment is smelling things.

he'll sit down, grab his foot, and showing off his great flexibility, put his toes to his nose and start breathing loudly through his nostrils. put that foot down, switch feet and repeat.

he's also picked up a pair of ben's boxers, puts them to his nose and inhales ferociously.

and his shirt. a blanket. my coat. the cat. the boy stops at nothing, he's now a sniff-wiz.

and finally, the other day i asked him to "give mama a hug," since he still didn't seem to connect me with the term mama. we were sitting on the couch and he lunged over to wrap his arms around me in a tight squeeze. totally made my day.

then for kicks, i asked him to "give mama a kiss," and to my great surprise, he put his mouth to my jawline and made a huge smacking "mwah!" i was able to get him to repeat this several times, but he hasn't done it since.

such a goofy little boy.