February Fun!

A February update!

Robin is now tall enough to turn on light switches without standing on anything.  He is very proud of this ability, and is happy with how useful it is.  He has also started using a few limited three-word sentences!  They often lack a real verb (and a lot of his communication is still through sound effects and pantomime) but we know what he means.  He can manage "Robin help Mama" (when he helps me with something, "No Mama help" when he doesn't want help, and "More help please" in addition to the ones that aren't proper English yet.  I do find it amusing how I can figure out what he means (sometimes!) based on sound effects and context.  For example, he was playing with a ball of yarn in my office one day and I told him he was playing like a cat.  The next day he pointed into my office saying "Meow" so I knew he wanted to play with the yarn again.  Of course, anybody else would be totally lost on that conversation.  I'm really excited about the language breakthroughs he's made, but I'm still impatient for more.  But now on to some pictures!

Robin playing with the new legos he got for Christmas

Crawling under his train table to keep playing under there

Robin helping with the support bracket for the new microwave we installed

Play dough!  (A good freezing-weather activity)

I made Robin a fishing game.  So far, he lacks the fine motor skills to catch the fish while holding the stick and not the magnet, but we'll get there.

We went to the indoor amusement park Funtastic Fun for a friend's son's 5th birthday party.  Unfortunately the park will be relocating far away in June--it's really close now and we've been meaning to take Robin for ages.  He had a blast, and all the rides were kid-friendly--but not all were parent-friendly.  This whip ride was the first Robin's ever ridden without Dean or I.  I was worried that he would be worried at first, especially since he looked unsure when it started moving, but on the second or third time around he saw me and smiled, so I knew he was having fun.  (By the way, the birthday boy is the one in the car in front of him.  He's sitting with some random kid that we didn't know, because the entire ride was full.)

Gabe and Robin

Other fun party shots

Our Valentine's Day breakfast (Robin just had the heart-shaped toast, since he still can't have eggs.)

We tried making a snow bunny once it got warm enough to turn the freezing, dry snow into something packable.

Crikey!

We purchased a set of clippers and tried the new method of cutting Robin's hair.  I still need practice, but at least this haircut didn't make me ask "My God, what have I done???" like some of the other attempts have.

Click here to read about the crafts Robin and I did in February over on Science Fiction Mommy, and here to see our new sensory bin.

We've been super busy rearranging the house and making improvements lately.  We officially took the house off the market at the end of February :( because we didn't want to deal with moving (or selling) with an infant, plus we needed time to nest.  Eventually I'll post some home improvement pics--but since we're so busy I'll probably remain terminally behind.  See you all some other time!

(And please start commenting again!!!  I love hearing your reactions!)