Sam has started putting baby dolls and stuffed animals in the jump-jump and then saying "jump" to them. He then bounces the jump-jump for them. He also says "swing" and then pushes them.
New words: cheerio, table (though it sounds remarkably close to dammit) and truck (and he says it when he sees them).
He is finally comfortable climbing on equipment at play areas like McDonald's and Chik-fil-a. He loves to climb all over the toddler area at the mall. He is suddenly very into swinging too. He used to just want to run around and climb but now as soon as we get to the park he asks for the swings.
He recognizes places that he has only been to once or twice and sometimes months ago like daddy's office. As soon as I pulled into the parking lot he said "dada".
He is now singing the song Wheels on the bus by himself, meaning he just breaks into song while playing or riding in the car. He doesn't sing every word, but he hums the song for the words he can't say. He does most of the motions that I do with it as well.
Two weeks ago when I was walking with Megan on the horse Will let him play with the farm cat. I don't like cats so I always shooed it away, but Will let him pet it and play with it and he had a blast. Yesterday at the farm he kept trying to pet it but it would run away. One time I told him he had to go slow to not scare it so he got down and crawled to the cat.
He had so much fun at the Children's museum. He was confident and brave and not shy at all. He went all over and played with everything. He really loved the hospital nursery area where he got to take care of the babies and rock them in a kid size chair. He wore a pair of glasses to be like sissy in the eye doctor area.
I am working to teach him to say boy or girl when he sees another kid because right now he just says baby for all kids no matter how old they are. The other day I said "Sam is a boy" and he said "boy" and then said "sissy boy?".
He is afraid of our neighbor Joy for some reason. She was in the yard a couple of days ago and he wouldn't say hi to her and then wouldn't look at her and then he ran to the corner and hid behind the edge. It sounds worse than it was - it was actually pretty smart of him to know he could go there to hide. He used to play with her all the time so I am not sure what was up that day.
During our vacation we kept Megan out of school except on therapy days. The weather was really nice most days so we were constantly going to the park or going on walks. Yesterday morning when I told Sam to get his shoes because we were leaving he said "swing?" and I said no buddy not right now and then he said "walk?". He loved having daddy home for a week and a half and he loved getting to be outside so much. He is going to love it when he can be outside every day.
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