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Dear Henry
Oh how you LOVE to dance! You discovered this about a month ago, so we have what we call a little “dance party USA” in the living room regularly. You do like children’s music, but you are equally happy with a little disco or hip hop. Here’s a sample of your fine moves….
Love
Mom
Dear Henry,
You are surprising me with how tuned into Christmas you are this year… you are so excited! I didn’t expect you to grasp the concept of Santa Claus and Christmas trees quite yet, but it’s just about all you talk about. Yes TALK about. I love it! You have started referring to anything Christmas as “ho”… that applies to Santa, Christmas, or ho ho ho. One of the three things you could say last year this time was “ho, ho, ho” (other two being mama and dada). It’s interesting because you are having a hard time with that this year. We are getting just the one “ho”. That’s apraxia for you, I guess.
You love all of the lit up trees in the neighborhood and you now call them ” ho tee” for “Christmas tree” . If you even see a triangle shape anywhere, including your sandwich, it is now a ho tee. We are going to cut our tree down again this year and we will probably go this Saturday. Fingers crossed that you will enjoy it more this year than last year. At least I know you will ooh and ahh and appreciate our ho tee once it’s all decorated.
We took you to Mohegan Sun tonight because they unveiled their 24 ft gingerbread house and Santa was there too. You had never been there before and you absolutely loved it…the lights, the music, the people! You didn’t want to leave! You danced and skipped and entertained everyone. You even sat on Santa’s lap and gave us one of your signature “cheese” smiles. You are such a ham! We have so many fun events coming up the next few weeks and I’m excited to see that you are at an age where you can really enjoy them and participate. Your mom loves Christmas so maybe some of my excitement is rubbing off on you.
On a non-holiday note, you also had your very first piece of pizza tonight which you ate in your typical way…picking any dot of anything off of every component and eating the ingredients separately. Sigh. I can’t wait until one day when you have your perfect bite of something, when you get all the flavors together at one time. At least you are eating, I know some toddlers don’t eat much at all!
Love you buddy,
Mommy
Dear Henry,
This may not seem like a big deal to you, or to many people actually, but you can finally say “Mooo!”. It just popped out the other day while we were looking at a farm book. Do you know your Mommy and your therapists have been working on this word with you for over a year? Your mom has been running around mooing like a cow hoping one day you could put the “mmmm” with the “oooo” and you did it! From a motor planning perspective this is a huge gain, but in general it’s just plain awesome and you love saying it! I see your pride and I think you realized what you’ve accomplished. You’ve been wanting to say it as much as I was waiting to hear it. Sigh. I’m so happy.
Love you
Linda
