So much is changing every day. I'm amazed that the person who could not even hold his own head up just over a year ago is now balancing as he walks across a wooden beam in our backyard. (The wooden beam is a 2-by-8 to be used for scaffolding that was brought by the construction workers who will soon be sandblasting our horrible stucco. Yay!)
It has probably been about 2 weeks since the first time Dominic took a kleenex from my outstretched hand and followed my instruction to "put it in the trash can". He was so proud of himself and I stood there with my jaw on the floor. I was just as amazed when I said "pull the string on your chair" (a musical rocking chair his Nana and Nano gave him that plays "Jesus Loves Me"), and he not only went over and tried to pull the little ball, but succeeded! It takes quite a bit of force to pull it enough to start the music and it required some great balance as the chair can't be used for standing stability while it is rocking. With the trash can thing, I had carefully "taught" the words "trash can", but I never had pointed and said "string" or "chair". He just got that by osmosis.
I bet he has been getting everything by osmosis for some time now. It increases my alertness to watch what I say.
I am definitely beginning to hear a difference between the word "dog" and the word "truck". When we hear the trash truck coming, Dominic runs to the window or the gate so we can go out and watch it lift the cans and dump them.
Dominic's inseam is now 10 inches long. Since he started at 20.5 inches and is now over 30.5 inches, that means that he has added that entire leg to his length. No wonder he is waking up in the middle of the night crying sometimes... must be some growing pains! He is 1.5 times his original length and 3 times his original weight! (75th percentile for his age in both height and weight.)
We carved our first pumpkin together on Monday. See pictures here.) Dominic didn't want to touch the squishy guts, but he really liked pushing the cut sections into the pumpkin to reveal the features. It was a pumpkin we got free at a home show at the Orange County Fairgrounds where Granddaddy was working the Seashore Pest Control booth. Thanks to Granddaddy for carrying it home for us!
Before Dominic, I would always try to make a different face on my carved pumpkins.. something other than the "same old" triangle nose and toothy grin. But this year I figured even the regular face was new and different to him, so we made a classic jack-o-lantern.
We went to a couple of pumpkin patches - the big one at Tanaka Farms in Irvine and a smaller more commercial one across from Nana and Nano's house in Buena Park. Dominic loved the giant wheels on the tractor at Tanaka Farms. We got to ride in a wagon behind the tractor and pick onions, radishes and carrots out of the ground! Dominic really loved pat-pat-patting the baby goats, too. At the Buena Park one we rode the train and watched in awe as cousins Asaiah, Alex and Christian went on the huge inflatable tornado slide!
I said that Dominic has been having some trouble sleeping, but the past 2 nights he has been almost back to normal. Both nights he woke up twice (about midnight and 3) and cried for about a minute each time. It makes me so upset to think something might be scaring him in his sleep. I try to be careful that anytime he is within earshot the TV is either off or on some "good" kids show like Sesame Street or Thomas and Friends, but I'm sure I haven't been 100% consistent. He for sure sees too much political news... with the presidential election less than a week away, don't we all?!
Uh oh, it's time for our walk to the park with Aria. Will have to write more later! Bye for now, and thanks again for visiting!
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