"Yeah?"

Earlier this week I thought maybe Thaddeus was nodding in answer to my questions, so I started asking him extra questions to see if maybe he'd nod. I'd ask things like "You ready to go get Callia from preschool?" and he'd nod. :) So cute! Then a couple of days later he started saying "Yeah?" while he was nodding, I guess because I would ask him a question such as "Do you want more yogurt?" and I would say "Yeah?" as he was nodding. So he started saying "Yeah?" as he was nodding, too, in exactly the same tone as I did. He's so smart!

That's what Nathan said, too. When I told him about it he tested it out, asking Thad a question, and Thad responded appropriately to show Daddy his new trick. Nathan said "Well, maybe he'll talk pretty soon after all"! I thought the same thing. He has been so quiet I thought maybe he'd take a while to talk but maybe he'll just skip the babbling and go straight to talking. For now he mostly "talks" when he is really trying to communicate something. He points and says "duh".

Callia was constantly making noises as she was learning to talk but honestly she still does constantly make noise so I guess it wasn't really an effort to talk, more like just because noise is fun. No joke, she is playing a video game right now and making noises and saying a mix of actual words and nonsense words related to the game just to keep her voice busy. Its funny because at the time I felt like her babbling was part of the process of learning to talk (which for her it may have been), so I figured since Thad was not babbling much he is not bothering to learn to talk. However, it appears his little brain is still absorbing and learning language, just not as loudly! Silly me for thinking he'd go through the same steps as Callia!

Applesauce Eyes

Thaddeus is so funny when he eats (what 13 month old isn't?) !! Whenever he doesn't want something you're trying to feed him, he swipes his hands all over the place in an effort to keep you from being able to put it in his mouth. Then if you actually do get it in there he will gag and stick out his tongue to get it out! Although there are times where he does it for the entire meal, sometimes it is even with food that he was enjoying just a moment before, and sometimes he starts enjoying it again if you just wait a minute!

This morning he was cracking me up. I was feeding him applesauce, which he was enjoying, but he decided he'd had enough, so he started flailing his arms all around in front of his face. The funny part was that he was squeezing his eyes shut, fully expecting something to hit him in the eye! Its a testament to how often that actually happens. When he went to open his eyes, it was as if they were stuck shut and he was mentally prying them open slowly; he was so convinced he was going to get something in them.

Yay! Cuteness!!!

Poor little Thaddeus is sick tonight, all bright with fever. We took pity on the little guy when he cried instead of going to sleep at bedtime, and "just this once" he was allowed to come downstairs with us to fall asleep on Nathan at the computer, which he loves to do. Nathan watched a video on utube of a guy playing "Indiana Jones" on the organ. At the end there was applause, and...

...Thaddeus clapped along with them!

Now Nathan is watching SNL clips and Thad is clapping along with the audience for that, too. The sound of the fat little hands patting together couldn't be any cuter!!! And the proud smile on his little face tops it all off. He's delightful!

Born on My Birthday

I had a conversation with Callia in the car on the way to Maegen's house yesterday about how Cambric is going to be born soon. Callia asked when she was born and I told her, April 5th, 2003. She said "April 5th! My birthday is in April!," so I told her "That's why your birthday is on April 5th, because you were born that day." The expression I saw her make next in the rearview mirror was so adorable and it said "Ohhh, thats an incredibly deep concept, but I get it." It made me smile. She's a smart kid.

Callia loves Mario

Today Callia and I were at the computer and she was playing Mario 64. After playing for a bit, I noticed that she was just sitting there not touching the controller, and just staring at the screen. When I asked what she was doing, she replied "I don't want to wake Mario up. He's sleeping." It's funny how different kids see the world.

Chick-fil-A Fun!

Thaddeus is really getting around now, and he and Callia are having a ball testing out his skills on the Chick-fil-A playground! We love Chick-fil-A because the employees are always cheerful, they play Christian music, and they keep their playground fairly clean. Thaddeus loves it because we let him crawl around. :)

In these first two pictures you can see Thaddeus pulling up, the third one is Callia with stick-on earrings all over her face, and the last two show how happy Thad is to be crawling.

Gettin' Around

Thaddeus is pulling up now. He pulled up for the first time a little less than two weeks ago when he crawled over to me (which was a first for crawling to a destination and I was thinking "I should blog that"), and pulled up on the couch. The next day he did it in his crib. Now he is doing it all over the place, and he was standing at the edge of my chair just a moment ago when I decided I'd finally just DO IT and blog about it. :)

I'm not sure how to say when he first started crawling. I think it was just three or four weeks ago that he first crawled a little but as I said it was a little under two weeks ago that he went anywhere with a destination.

I'm sure he could have done any of it much sooner but he's a pretty laid back little guy and would rather just wait to move until his mama carries him somewhere. Until now.