Toddler Time

Wow, I knew it was a while since my last blog, but I didn't realize it had been this long!! I have little excuse for not blogging, but I can say that Dominic has kept me extremely busy. He is now 35.75 inches, he weighs in at 28lbs and is a ball of energy. He talks non stop. I stopped counting words a while ago now (when he hit 200), but at age two he is singing Twinkle, Twinkle, ABC's, counting and saying complete sentences. Some sentences range from just a few words to 5-7. He loves his Thomas the Train set/trains, and his books. He no longer sleeps in his daybed crib, but is now in a full sized bed. He switched on his birthday and did so on his own.

We have started potty training. Dominic gets a small sticker for just sitting and a big sticker for actually going. However, the little stinker has already figured out a trick. He waits till he is in bed and then says "mommy, I go poop on potty". Up we go to sit on the potty.

Now that I have gotten used to him talking so much and so often it takes the special comments to really capture my attention. A few that I can remember.... Matt was in the kitchen in the morning (early for him-pre coffee) and Dominic was getting into stuff and making a mess. Matt told Dominic to go in the living room and play with his toys. I took Dominic into the living room and as we were walking he looks at me and says "Daddy needs coffee". I just lost it!! I couldn't believe it came out of his mouth!!

One thing that Dominic has learned that other people find funny is that he learned what tentacles are. So I'll sign octopus and ask what the octopus has. He will respond with "tentacles". However, coming out of his little mouth it looks and sounds so funny.

I'm very pleased with Dominic's ability to speak and communicate. I truly believe that his success was due to excessive amounts of time spent lap reading, and sign language. His manners are also coming along nicely, but he still needs prompting most of the time, but not all of the time.

Things we are seriously working on; temper, destruction of things, hitting, cleaning up a mess after making one, and potty training. He has hit the terrible two's and my little easy going angel boy has been replaced. As with all things, I know we will work through this slight challenge in time and hopefully I will do the best job I can in teaching him. The worst part of it all is that he is still so darn cute!!! I especially love to watch him when he is asleep, he still looks a bit like a baby when he is sleeping and definitely looks angelic. :-)

We shall see what tomorrow brings!! Oh...Matt got a contract at Syracuse!!! YEAH!!!! We know where we will be next year and that makes things so much less stressful. Graduation is only five months away!!! Wow!! Then we will all have to call him Doctor. :-)