Ramblings about Tanner. . .

Just had to pull Tanner's hands out of the toilet. Such a lovely way to start a Saturday morning. We just had a fairly good night sleep last night so I thought I'd tell you about Tanner, while I have a spare clear thought in my head.


(Tanner playing in the pool at the cabin. It was pretty normal to just strip him down every day and he'd get in the pool. Or he'd just crawl in, in his clothes. Either way, he LOVED it!)

He seems to think he's having a lot of logical conversations with us these days. Telling us what he sees ("dog", "diaper", "cup", ) or what he's thinking ("don't do that", "give me that", "you're so funny", "I'm tired", "You are the best mommy in the world and I love you") except that they all sound like "DAH!" and yesterday "NAH" seemed to be the word of the day. But he looks at us like he is quite sure of what he's saying. Adorable and so funny! There is lots of pointing and laughing and "DAH"s and "NAH"s and clapping around here lately. Sometimes the clapping is clapping, and sometimes it's him trying to sign "More" (which is a similar sort of gesture.) We are pretty sure that yesterday he started signing "Cup". I still remember the first time Bryce came toddling into the kitchen and signed "CUP!" because he was thirsty. It was PRICELESS. We are excited that Tanner is catching on to the couple of signs we've been working on. Communication is a beautiful thing!

And then there's the teeth. . ..Oh the teeth!!!! Because Tanner likes to be different, Tanner is getting his TOP teeth first, rather than his bottom teeth, like the other 90% of babies out there! (I'm making up that statistic, by the way!) The first top tooth started appearing while we were in North Carolina. I hadn't even been looking up top, because I was so busy looking for bottom teeth to start poking through. But there it was. Eric found it! And now the second top tooth is on it's way out. Bryce was 7 months old when he cut his first tooth (and we were in North Carolina for that one too!) and Tanner was 10 months old.

Tanner LOVES taking a bath. (I told you he loves the water. . .the pool, the toilet. . .whatever!) He gets so excited when we turn on the water. He starts jumping and laughing. He gets pretty excited about anything he wants. He dropped a ball a few days ago, and I asked him "Do you want the ball? Should Mommy get the ball?" And the hysterical laughter that followed had Eric and I about in tears!!! He is SO funny. He seems to laugh instead of saying "Yes!" (One day he'll probably laugh at us as he tells us NO too!)

Watch for my random ramblings about Mr. B soon. He is turning into quite a big boy. Just like last year when it was a little overwhelming to have a baby and have a child starting preschool within a week of each other. . .this year it's a little overwhelming to have one starting KINDERGARTEN and one turning ONE in the same week. UGH. This mommy business is exhausting.


XOXO