Holy Crazy Tantrum

Davy just threw a crazy tantrum. It all started when Kevin left for work. I told Davy to tell Daddy "Bye bye" at that point Davy ran to Kevin, threw his arms around his legs and started crying. Kevin brought him back to me and headed out the door with Davy still bawling. I tried a few things to calm him down, food, drink, TV. None of it worked, at this point Davy was laying on the ground and seemed to be bothered by the snot in his nose, so I got a nose sucker and cleaned it out which didn't help the crying. Cheerios didn't help, he would stop crying, eat a few and then begin crying again. He got happy when I opened his bedroom door, but only until he shut it and then he cried. Finally I decided, even though he had already had his nap for today that he obviously needed another, and the silence in the house tells me I was right. Which when it comes down to it is actually pretty good for me because it means I can get a nap too. 

Pink Pink

On Monday of this week we had our anatomy ultrasound and found out that we are having a girl. We did a gender reveal party afterward with a cake that was pink and had pink frosting inside. The frosting was bubble gum flavored. After having Davy I have gotten into the habit of always looking for boy things and ignoring the girl stuff. Now I have to look for both. I think it will be fun to have a little girl, but I am guessing that it will be much different than having a little boy. It will be interesting to see how it all goes.

Chatterbox

Every so often I run into or hear about people with children around the same age as Davy. Sometimes I see or hear about how well their children can talk. "Oh she says at least 50 words already" or, "He will tell me, I love you too when I say I love you to him. " or "He says all done when he is done eating." And then I think about my own little guy.

Every morning we are woken up to the sound of chattering, "Mamamamama Daboo dadoo dadoo dadadadadoo de da No bababababa, (giggle giggle) Yay!" Then comes the sound of him blowing raspberries after awhile and we know he is spitting on things. So far Davy knows a few words:
No
Yeah
Yay
Dada
Mama
Nana
Thank you
Uh oh
Go
Diego (Deego)

So that is what? 10 words total. So the other day I was talking about it with my sister and she looked it up. Turns out that for a 18 month old he is just fine. He has linked at least two words together, and says some words but chatters mostly with a few real words interspersed. Still there are quite a few words we would love him to learn, all done, milk, cracker, I love you, puppy. There are more but those would be nice so that we would know a little more about what he wants at different times.

On Monday I had my birthday, it was nice. We went shopping, watched a movie (Pride and Prejudice) and went over to my parent's house for dinner and cake. It was relaxing. We also got a super wide baby gate. We have very large openings in our home due to a super open floor plan (not exactly a fan of it myself). Anyway we don't really want Davy getting into the kitchen so we have been blocking him off from it with some large boxes that Kevin taped together. Well after discovering that there was a baby gate wide enough to reach from the wall to the cabinets and after Kevin nearly broke some of his toes a few times we finally decided to buy the baby gate. We installed it on my birthday (which I was actually rather excited about). The gate works perfectly and not only does it keep the baby where we want him, but the dogs have not yet tried jumping it as it looks far too tall for them in their estimation. This means we can section off the baby and dogs depending on how we want them to be sectioned. Feeding the baby and don't want the excuse of dogs to lead him to throw food on the ground, gate the dogs out of the kitchen, don't want the dogs in the kitchen when we leave the house, gate them out. Want the dogs to leave the toddler alone when we first get home, gate them in the kitchen. It works great!! Even though it is not one of my presents I still feel happy about it because it has been working so well. I think it will help to make some aspects of seminary easier as well. Yay for gates!