We made it all the way to two. Hard to believe a whole year has gone by. Hard to believe our baby is hardly a baby any more, but a real person now. I thought it would be fun to go back to the Cherry Blossom Park for his 24 month photos. That's where I was last year on the eve of his birthday, and his actual birthday. Unfortunately, this year, there was nary a blossom in sight. Guess the bloomed early last year. Plus we are no longer in the sitting still stage for photos so it is harder to capture as he is usually running straight for the camera.
After nap we moved to the backyard.
A shovelful of dirt. What could be better?
saying 'hi'
I got a bunch of great photos here, but he REFUSED to look at me. I waved, I pleaded, begged, cajoled. Nothing.
Kyalo continues to be a sweet, relatively easy going, loving kid. He'll run up to one of us and give us a hug or a kiss for no apparent reason. Or if I ask for a hug, he'll hold on tight, and be sure to hug both shoulders. When I leave him in nursery at church or MOPS I get raving reviews about him. Someone just recently told me he was 'delightful' which warms my heart, of course. I'm glad that he's so agreeable when he's out in public and with other people. Make him mad -- take something away, tell him no, etc -- and his anger comes out. This is usually displayed by pulling all the books off the bookshelf, throwing something, or biting or hitting me. I would welcome ideas on how to best channel his frustrations/anger. He needs to be able to kick something, I think!
This year, at least, I made him a cake. Apparently this is the best I can do in terms of birthday party planning. Seriously, though, he'd be happier in the dirt anyway, so why bother? As the weather warms up maybe we'll gather some friends at a park for a picnic or something. We're low-key.
As I've said 100+ times, he loves to be outside and dirty, but he also loves to read, and his newest love is to help "dir dir" (stir) things in the kitchen. We make oatmeal just about every morning and he likes to stir the oatmeal in the pot, and add the raisins. I look forward to teaching him a love for cooking, and food. It won't be long before he can really help me make things.
We still have a problem with him throwing his food on the floor when he's all done. It doesn't happen all the time - now he'll give me his bowl and spoon about 75% of the time - but when it does it makes a huge mess...which I try to get him to clean up. Teaching cause and effect, I guess. I think he's a little young to be learning consequences, but we're trying.
he was really excited for his first birthday cake!
His talking has gotten much better; it seems like every day new words are coming. As my mom says he's really very conversational, even if he's not speaking fully yet. You can see he's learning and understanding so much, so I guess I just won't worry about it...yet...I still may ask the pedi when I go sometime this month what he or she thinks about it. I think some day he'll wake up and just start talking a mile a minute.
Sleep seems to be getting better. As a birthday gift to ME he slept 12 hours on Tuesday night - not waking up at all. I really think this might be the first time he's slept that long, EVER. Did he do it last night? No. Woke up at 1:30 screaming - which is actually unusual, so I wonder if something freaked him out. At least he slept til 8 this morning, and is having a good nap now. I'm still nursing him a bit, but think I'll try to slowly reduce the amount of time that happens. I've to to wean him eventually!!
And that's our guy! We love you so much, Kyalo.
1 comment:
hhappy birthday Kyalo....
and well done Dexter and Jenna.
and in true kenyan fashion,we are now waiting for no 2.Ha!
Ima
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