“No, no, Hunter! Nice to Ricky. No, no.” When Ricky is tickling the cat and the cat paws Ricky’s head.
“Tank you, Momma!” When he sneezes and I say, “Bless you, Ricky.”
“Tinky, Momma, tinky.” When it is time to call Kevin to change Ricky’s pants (potty training is still a work in progress).
“No car, ban.” When I mistakenly say we are going to go get in the car and go somewhere. Ricky knows that we now ride in a van, not a car.
“Ricky tired.” When he’s had a busy day of playing and it is time for his nap or for bed.
Yesterday the work began on our new sewer line. Where I once had nice grass, I now have a bunch of dirt. The workers brought in a backhoe/digger to do the digging and Ricky got so excited. One of his shows is “Bob the Builder” and Bob’s digger is called “Scoops.” We had to watch “Scoops” dig and dig and when they filled in the hole, they brought in one of those small front loaders and Ricky was very excited to see “Baby Scoops.” Of course, I think his main goal the last two days is to find a way out to get into all that freshly dug dirt. When they had filled in the hole, Ricky asked me where the mountains had gone. I guess to someone only 3 feet tall, those big piles did look like mountains!
Last week we started a Mom and Me Sign Language Class. Mostly for fun and to support the daughter of a lady in our ward who is doing the class for free. It is very cute to see Ricky use the signs he’s learned so far. We know momma and poppy (dad), yes and no, please, eat and drink, boy and girl. He is pretty good at it, although most of the signs are only really close to being right.
And about Billy, we remember what it is like to sleep at night now. He has figured out how to sleep for 6 – 8 hours straight at night and Kevin and I are thrilled about it! Billy starts to get sleepy around 8 and may fall asleep then or closer to 9 and sleeps through until 4 or 5. It truly is heaven! He found his toes yesterday. Billy loves to sit upright and as I was holding him on my lap he leaned forward far enough to grab onto those toes. And judging from the look on his face, I think he startled himself when he wiggled his toes. Billy is getting good at grabbing as well–toys, bibs, blankets, the magazine I was trying to read while holding him earlier today . . . We have shared Eskimo Kisses (rubbing noses), saying num, num, num while we do it, since Ricky was a baby and now Ricky does it to Billy. It really is precious to watch and it makes Billy break out into a great big grin!