What Riley's up to these days....this weekend he's been fighting yet another cold! Ugh! No fever, but he's got a constant runny nose and cough. I keep thinking he's going to wake up each night sick, but he hasn't yet. I'm taking a vacation day tomorrow, so I hope he doesn't end up ill on our day off together! Right now with all the illness he's had in the last month, I can't imagine day care being much worse! It seems like every time he gets over something, the next thing moves in! I guess it's just a right of passage.
One of his new things this week is finger pointing. He's constantly pointing and jabbering like you understand what he's saying. If there's a lack of an object to point at, he just points to the sky and jabbers along. I can now anticipate the phase of him becoming frustrated that he can't communication what he wants/needs to you. There's already a hint of it.
His 1st sign and most frequently used is the sign for milk, and now it is becoming the "go to" sign. If he's excited about something - sign for milk. If he's drinking his milk, he'll be making the sign for milk with his other hand. If he's "all done", he'll make the sign for milk...then it will slowly transition into the "all done" sign. It's like he knows we understand that sign, so he wants to use it for everything! We need to start working on more signs now that he's more receptive. I was teaching him to point at the yogurt bites then give me the sign for "more" the other day, and he got that pretty quickly. But I don't know if he would do it again on his own.
Walking Walking & More Walking...now that he's taken those first 2 steps...that's all he does. He just walks around and around our house - lugging our shoes, his balls, a book - whatever. But he'll continuously do laps around our kitchen bar. It never gets old.
He's also started to learn how to get off the sofa. I showed him how to back off by putting his feet down, and to my surprise - I caught him getting one of his balls off the sofa and "backing" off of it. But if he's focused on something else - he'll still just walk right off it you don't watch him!
He's also started mimicking us more and more this week. If he picks up my iPhone, he puts it to the back of his head and starts jabbering as if he's talking on it. The other night I was fixing his hair, and he picked up his comb and started combing his hair. And he's all about drinking out of whatever "big person" glass you are drinking out of. He'll walk up and smack his lips, lick them then open his mouth for a drink.
I can't remember what he did the other morning, but I remember saying to him - you may be a little OCD after all. We'll have to train your Daddy to be like us! ha! ;) Then 2 days later Emily told me that he was exhibiting the same behavior at her house. She said she noticed him shutting her pantry doors, so she went behind him and opened one of them - and he circled right back behind her and closed it. Then he was in Rowan & Camden's room, and he closed their closet door and pushed some of their drawers closed too. It's probably just more of his mimicking us, but it's cute! And it gives me hope, he'll be trainable! ha! Just kidding! I was telling Kelly we need to start letting him be part of picking up his toys each night. Right now we just pick them all up after he goes to bed, so our house is "straightened up" from about 8pm to 9am every day. The rest of the time, it looks like a 15 month old child lives here. I'm all about it being his domain and him having the freedom to explore and do what he wants within reason. It's his house too! We just try to make it as child friendly as possible.
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