It Only Gets Better

6 month update time!

Monkey talks so well now, I can hardly believe it!  And the things he comprehends!  I can give him complex instructions and he does them, I can ask him where something is and he tells me, and not just "where is my nose."  I  can't find my shoes so I ask him where Mommy's shoes are, sure enough he knows, whether I left them under the bed or he's worn them and left them in the kitchen.   I, truly, am constantly astonished at how incredibly intelligent my little boy is.

Sorry, no pictures this time.   "Why not?" you ask.  Well, honestly, because we lost the camera.  It would have been one thing to loose the camera after dumping all the pictures onto our computers but no, we lost it with almost 4 gigs of not-backed-up photos.   "Well that's stupid of you" you say.  Well, in our defense we had run out of storage space on our computers.  My laptop was almost entirely full, Persephone's hard drive was failing and Hubby's computer...well, he had a good excuse, too.  So, three months of pics lost and another two that weren't even taken.  :(

And, in other news, we're expecting another little monkey (monkey, not princess) in March.  Woot!

He talks!

I don't really have anything specific to say except that Monkey is now talking.  Woot!

It's actually pretty cool.  He says stuff like Please and Thank You Mommy (even when it's not mommy he is thanking.  He'll say thank you mommy and then a few seconds later, thank you *whomever*).  Stop It! is his latest favorite, but he talks in sentences, too.  He says all sorts of things and it blows me away to see how incredibly smart the kid is. And he's not even two yet!

Craziness.

Yet Another Update

Well, no news is good news I suppose.
Monkey is doing really well, he says soooo many things now I can't even begin to list them.  It's crazy.  Just yesterday he discovered that he could climb over the baby gates.  Nothing is safe now. :)
Also, last week he finally figured out how to play his harmonica.  How cool is that?
As for Jason and myself we've started playing in the Clearfield City Band, which is a lot of fun (more so I think than OCB).  They even have babysitters there, which is great.
The house is up for sale.  Hopefully we'll get a buyer here quickly.  (waiting....waiting....waiting....)
And I think that's really about it.   Sorry, no new pics today.

Post updating time!

I hope everyone had a good Christmas. We're all looking forward to an exciting new year.
Our house should finally be going up for sale sometime in the next week or so. With any luck we'll be outta here before spring. Where will we go? you ask. I don't know. How will we get there? How will we pay for it? I have no idea, but we are going.

In the mean time, here are some new pics of Monkey.
Getting Ready to go out... 

He claps on demand!

As well as gives big cheesy smiles for the camera

And a couple other Cute ones...  :)   I sure love my Monkey!

The Latest.

So, after reading my friends blogs where they keep everyone updated about the super cute things their babies are doing, I figured I needed to add my two cents. Monkey is doing great! He gives hugs (unless he's upset with me, then when I ask him for a hug he says in his little voice "no." It's very short and clipped, but sooo cute). He also gives kisses, real kisses. He started out just giving us his cheek so that we could kiss him, then Jorellech and Squeaky's mom bribed him with candy to give kisses (hooray for aunts!) which worked really well. So he evolved to kissing on the lips with his mouth wide open. Very slobbery, but oh-so-cute. He now gives the cutest little kisses ever. They're as cute as he is. :)
We're excited for Halloween. I'll be sure to take lots of pictures tomorrow for the pumpkin massacre, I mean carving.
Monkey is doing really well with Squeaky. He'll pat him softly on the head and give him kisses, too, though sometimes he says "down!" when I'm holding squeaky. Usually, though, he's content if whoever is holding Squeaky holds him too.
Hockey is going great. We had a lot of fun at the game last night, playing against a team that was at our level (last week it was a team a level above us and we got whompped).
Well, I can't think of anything else of interest to add, so I guess I'll leave it at this.

Updating Blog

This is a post for the sake of having a post. (Can't stand not updating my blog for more than a month).
Monkey is doing great, he can say so many words now! I had hockey practice on Monday and as Hubby had to work late I had to take Monkey with me (there is a babysitter there). The first time he did really well there, but since his new cousin, Squeaky, was born he has been super clingy. Needless to say he had a rough time.
In fact, the day after Squeaky was born we went to visit them in the hospital and Hubby gave Monkey to Jorellech to hold (she's so proud of all her nephews, we've got a totally cute picture of them all togather...hmmmm, maybe i'll upload it) while he held Squeaky. As soon as Monkey realized his father was two timeing on him, he got down from Jorellech's arms (he LOVES Jorellech) and clung to daddy's pants until he picked him up. Monkey didn't stop clinging until we'd left.



Then, a few days later when I was visiting them at home, Monkey was running around perfectly content while I held Squeaky, but I guess I held him too long. Monkey came up to me and motioned that he wanted to get on my lap, saying "down!" I guess he wanted me to put Squeaky down. What a cutie. :)

Firsts

The last couple of days have been full of some "firsts" for Monkey.
On Thursday he got to go to the zoo for the very first time. The first animal he got to see there was the elephant, which he was enthralled with and was very upset when we moved on. At least, until he got to see the bears (he can now growl like a bear). Then he got to see the zebras (he neighed at them while we ate lunch where he could watch them), and the giraffes (which he wasn't oo impressed by). He was getting tired by the time we saw the big cats (snow leopards, cheetahs, tigers & most of them with cubs). He didn't seem to impressed with them, but maybe they were just too much like his kitties. We also saw the apes. There was one large guy (maybe and orangutan, I didn't really find out) who was sitting by the glass and all the kids went to go look at him. He wandered off to a different portion of his cage. When Monkey got right up to the glass, the ape came up and sat right up by the glass next to him, putting his face right up to Monkey's. Monkey screamed and made me pick him up. Once he wqas safe in my arms (lol) we waved to the ape and said "bye-bye." It was a lot of fun.
Yesterday, I decided to be daring and took Monkey Ice Skating for the first time. We got the smallest pair of skates that they had, got all laced up and went out into the ice. It first I went backwards, pulling him, but then I got bored and so held him in front of me as we both glided forward. We only made it around the rink a couple of times, but each time we stepped off the ice, he quickly turned me around and stepped back on (though he never smiled). All in all, I think he had fun. Maybe it'll work a little better if i wait a couple more months before trying again (oi, it hurt my back!)