Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Puppy Love
Nothing comes between a boy and his dog!
Playing cars with Walter (if you look closely you can see Walter sticking his tongue out! haha)
KISSES!!!!!
Walter checking Koleton's diaper situation maybe? haha
Mr. Clean
My little helper, Koleton! He loves to help me clean! He loves the vacuum, the broom, the mop, the duster, all of it! Most of the time I will let him help me vacuum after I get done for a minute or two and today he helped me dust. He wanted the Swiffer duster, so I gave it to him, took his hand and showed him how to use it and off he went! He was doing a really good job too! (Until he decided to dust Walter's water dish... that just turned into a big wet mess! lol) Here he is!
Clean away, my son!
He's doing a really good job!
Yuck! So dirty!
He even dusted the opening on the diaper box covering Brad's computer! lol
Popsicles!
Koleton's new favorite treat is a nice cold popsicle! We found him these somewhat "mini" popsicles that are pretty soft (as in the melt nicely and break easily when you bite them if that makes sense). They come in 6 different flavors in the box and he LOVES them! He will sit in his high chair or walk around the house until it is gone! He holds it perfectly and is so cute eating them! Here are some pics of him devouring his dessert yesterday.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Stranger Anxiety
While he hasn't been professionally diagnosed, I think Koleton has severe stranger anxiety. He never really has liked many people other than Brad and myself. He goes through stages where sometimes it is worse than others and right now seems to be a worse time :( We were paying for groceries the other day and he was a little bit away from me so they could fill up the cart. Normally he is ok with that, especially because he can see me and I try to give him something to occupy him. Well the lady bagging our groceries just thought Koleton was the cutest thing (which he is of course!) and kept talking to him and rubbing his arm and he just burst out almost screaming. Then the lady tries to console him... all the while I'm just thinking "lady, you are the reason he is crying!" haha Even with people he knows like his grandparents out here, it takes him a while to warm up to them, if he ever does. He swats people away, kicks his feet if they talk to him, and kind of tries to "disappear" by pushing himself back against something away from whoever it is he doesn't know. I feel bad for him, but I know (or I don't think anyway) that it is anything serious or that I should really be worried about...yet. We've always known him to be "calculating" and a perfectionist. He has to study things before he will try them and even then he won't do them until he has "perfected" them. This seems to relate to how he is with other people.
I have started taking him to the play area at the mall every day to get him out around other people, and, well, just out of the house. At first when we started going a couple weeks ago, he was really shy about it. He would take one step away from me, then come back, then two steps and back and so on until he felt comfortable enough to go play. Now he almost climbs out of his stroller to go play as soon as we get there! I always tell him to go play and make some new friends and he runs off. You can see him watching the other kids and wanting to play with them but most of the time they are a little older than him and are up climbing and going down the slide, which he doesn't do yet. I figure that by watching the other kids playing he will also be learning how to do things (Mr. Calculation himself).
While he does have stranger anxiety, separation anxiety doesn't seem to be a real problem! ha! You'd think with how shy he is and how much he doesn't like people he doesn't know that he would stick close to me or at least where he can see me, but every chance he gets he tries to escape the play area! He is quick too! He runs out and towards one of the stores! lol At first I though, heck, he won't go far, then he didn't come back! I looked and he was FAR away running! lol Little stinker!
Koleton is so stinkin' smart! (I'm sure every mom thinks their kid is the smartest there ever was ;) ). Whenever we get home I tell him "Let's go let Walter out to go potty" and he walks right into our bedroom and up to Walter's kennel to let him out. Then he walks with him to put him outside! He helps me put Walter in his bed before we leave anywhere too. He knows when we give him his blankie that it is bedtime and he wants me to pick him up and wait for his milk to warm up. Today at the mall I was giving him some Gerber fruit melt things (his favorites) and I asked him if he wanted more and signed "more". It is similar to clapping but you touch all of your fingertips together on each hand, then touch them to the other hand (kind of hard to describe lol). I have been trying to get him to do sign language for a long time since he always seems to get so frustrated when he something doesn't seem to go his way. Well, low and behold, he walks up to me with 1 hand in a fist "clapping" with his other hand! He was saying more!!! I was so excited! I know he wasn't just clapping because later he clapped with both hands open, then closed the one fist and clapped again, all the while watching his hands. It was like he was so proud of himself! He had signed milk as well a month or so ago, but just for a couple of days and hasn't done it since.
He seems to get bored "showing off" his new "tricks" lol I asked him yesterday where his belly was, and both hands went flat up against his belly. He did it a couple of times, then I asked him again and he just gave me this look like "Mama. Seriously? I showed you twice already! If you don't remember where my belly is, I'm not showing you again!" haha!!! We also played ring around the rosie yesterday and he loved it! He holds my hands and walks in a circle and I help him "fall" down and he just laughs and laughs! He is such a silly boy sometimes. Shy, outgoing, smart, however he is and whoever he becomes we couldn't love him anymore and wouldn't love him any less!!!!
I have started taking him to the play area at the mall every day to get him out around other people, and, well, just out of the house. At first when we started going a couple weeks ago, he was really shy about it. He would take one step away from me, then come back, then two steps and back and so on until he felt comfortable enough to go play. Now he almost climbs out of his stroller to go play as soon as we get there! I always tell him to go play and make some new friends and he runs off. You can see him watching the other kids and wanting to play with them but most of the time they are a little older than him and are up climbing and going down the slide, which he doesn't do yet. I figure that by watching the other kids playing he will also be learning how to do things (Mr. Calculation himself).
Yep, I climbed up here all by myself!!!
And Mama put me in the slide for a picture... I haven't gone down it yet.
While he does have stranger anxiety, separation anxiety doesn't seem to be a real problem! ha! You'd think with how shy he is and how much he doesn't like people he doesn't know that he would stick close to me or at least where he can see me, but every chance he gets he tries to escape the play area! He is quick too! He runs out and towards one of the stores! lol At first I though, heck, he won't go far, then he didn't come back! I looked and he was FAR away running! lol Little stinker!
Here he is playing at the mall. You can see him looking at some girls that were there and I think he was wanting to tell them to stop yelling! lol
Koleton is so stinkin' smart! (I'm sure every mom thinks their kid is the smartest there ever was ;) ). Whenever we get home I tell him "Let's go let Walter out to go potty" and he walks right into our bedroom and up to Walter's kennel to let him out. Then he walks with him to put him outside! He helps me put Walter in his bed before we leave anywhere too. He knows when we give him his blankie that it is bedtime and he wants me to pick him up and wait for his milk to warm up. Today at the mall I was giving him some Gerber fruit melt things (his favorites) and I asked him if he wanted more and signed "more". It is similar to clapping but you touch all of your fingertips together on each hand, then touch them to the other hand (kind of hard to describe lol). I have been trying to get him to do sign language for a long time since he always seems to get so frustrated when he something doesn't seem to go his way. Well, low and behold, he walks up to me with 1 hand in a fist "clapping" with his other hand! He was saying more!!! I was so excited! I know he wasn't just clapping because later he clapped with both hands open, then closed the one fist and clapped again, all the while watching his hands. It was like he was so proud of himself! He had signed milk as well a month or so ago, but just for a couple of days and hasn't done it since.
He seems to get bored "showing off" his new "tricks" lol I asked him yesterday where his belly was, and both hands went flat up against his belly. He did it a couple of times, then I asked him again and he just gave me this look like "Mama. Seriously? I showed you twice already! If you don't remember where my belly is, I'm not showing you again!" haha!!! We also played ring around the rosie yesterday and he loved it! He holds my hands and walks in a circle and I help him "fall" down and he just laughs and laughs! He is such a silly boy sometimes. Shy, outgoing, smart, however he is and whoever he becomes we couldn't love him anymore and wouldn't love him any less!!!!
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
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