Keeping Up with D

It's tricky to keep up with Little Man these days!

 

We have a standing date on Fridays, and every time we see Daniel, we need a briefing from Cecilia and Will about new activities and vocabulary.  At 16 months, he's fascinated with everything.  You can almost hear the wheels turning in his little head while he soaks up new experiences and puts words together.

Daniel loves lights and fans.

 

Rhino, hippo, and elephant ride in D's blue truck.

The rhino is his favorite.

Hungry for books, books, and more books.
 

Daniel's vocabulary is exploding.  Since my guys were little, I've been fascinated with language development anyway; but witnessing his ability to speak and understand both Brazilian Portuguese and English just blows me away.  It also challenges me to learn more, and try my best to speak my very limited Portuguese in a way that won't throw him off course.



We get to do fun, silly, messy things just because.  Part of the joy of grandparenting!

GiGi broke out the finger paints.

We both got "creative."

Show Hey Yea your hand.

Yep, this is lots of fun!

Of course, there still has to be a bahndah involved,
somehow.

Not exactly a paint brush, but . . .

Experiments I
(medium: washable finger paint with hands and flag stick)

Experiments II

Experiments III

Daniel and Mamae

Just sitting on her foot.

Daniel invited Uncle Steve to share some new things.
First of all, Daniel knows his name now, and calls him--"Teee"

Next they talked about the birds outside the window.

Then they discussed lights on and lights off.

"Teee" was amazed.

I'll try to catch some decent pix of D's latest physical feat very soon.  He's learned to stand on his head in a pose very similar to the Downward Dog yoga position.  We call him the "Upside-Down Boy" when he does it.