The Best Things About Carl (at 10 months)

1. I love the way he squeals when I get him up in the morning.
2. I love how he can crawl across the floor using only his arm strength (no legs).
3. I love how he adores his sling
4. and fits on my hip
5. and snuggles against me in it when he's tired.
6. I love the way he says "mama" when he's hungry and "dada" to tease me.
7. I love that he has a favorite book (That's Not My Dinosaur) and that he doesn't actually want to read it, just look at the cover.
8. I love that he already wants to and is capable of mimicking our simple motions.
9. I love how ticklish he is.
10. I love the way he plays with my face, especially my lips.
11. I love the way he nurses so intently first thing in the morning
12. and the way he smacks his lips when he's done.
13. I love his laugh when I bounce him around.
14. I love that he enjoys being rocked.
15. I love how interested he is in everything his big brother is doing.
16. I love the way I can sometimes see Scott or Soren in his facial expressions.
17. I love to hear him laughing when Scott makes the dinosaurs kiss him goodnight.
18. I love how he grabs my hand when he wants to be picked up.
19. I love that he can appreciate silly games and recurring actions now.
20. I love how he wants to explore and touch everything. It's like I can almost see his mind working.

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Our Potty Training Journey

February 2010 GOAL: My initial goal was to introduce Soren to the toilet and make it a fun place to sit. I have to admit that I also hoped that we would have some fortunate "accidents" that would lead to potty training success. STRATEGY: My plan was to sit Soren on the toilet once a day and read him a couple of stories. If he peed, I was planning to give him a candy. THE BAD NEWS: The candy totally backfired. The one time that he peed on the toilet, I gave him a candy and he had a full-on tantrum begging for more. If I ever told him "When you pee on the potty, you can have a candy", he would begin screaming for the treat and be unable to focus on the toilet training. THE GOOD NEWS: Soren was not afraid of sitting on the big toilet. He actually really enjoyed it (when I was reading stories and not pimping rewards) and started asking to sit there any time his butt was bare. J June 2010 GOAL: My goal was to potty train Soren within the month of June

Cake for Breakfast!

I was getting dressed when it suddenly got very quiet out in the living room. Soren had been contentedly babbling a moment ago and now it was silent. I'm sure you can imagine me, rushing half-panted down the hall, hoping nothing horrible had happened. At our last visit, my pediatrician filled my mind with horror stories of infant death; now gruesome scenes were flipping through my mind like a slide show on speed. Or like the scary tunnel in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". Expecting a disaster, I was relieved when this was what I saw in the living room: The night before, I'd left a slice of left-over cake on the arm chair. We'd had company and Soren had been in bed. When I'd forgotten it at the end of the evening, it had been far from my son's greedy grasp. But this morning, when it was still left behind, it was within easy baby reach and too unusual for him not to explore. No wonder he was so quiet! He'd been experimenting with an unk

Milestone: New Syllable

This feels like such a silly thing to report about but it's got me tickled pink. Today Soren learned, what I feel, is the most important of all the English syllables: "ma". And it's about time. After months and months of hearing nothing but "da da da da" all day long, it's a refreshing change. I'm pretty sure that "da da" and "ma ma" don't correlate to anything in his mind yet. Still, he's that much closer to calling me his "mama" and I can't say the approximations don't warm my heart.

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