Monday, September 14, 2009

Toddlers Do the Darnedest Things

Pablo turned 18 months last week. Here are a few of his recent accomplishments.
  • Putting a spaghetti pot on his head and walking smack into the cabinets
  • Chasing the cats around the house with a toy rake (just a month ago he was petting them gently and hugging them)
  • Playing cymbals with two pot lids (he learned this entirely on his own without prompting)
  • Screeching in protest at the slightest "no" from mommy or daddy
  • A rapidly expanding bilingual vocabulary of animal sounds (moo, nay, bow wow, meow, quack quack, zz zz - that's cicadas)
  • His first somersaults.
  • Going potty on the potty now and then. Telling us he went potty in his diaper more often.
  • Picking up cat hair off the floor, saying "Dirt!", and throwing it away in the trash can. (We plan on taking full advantage of this one!)
  • Smacking himself in the head to signal "mosquito".
Life with a toddler - who knows what feats will come next!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Can't wait to see you and Pablo in a couple weeks! I'll get to see some of his famous toddler feats for myself!

Anonymous said...

Great work, Pablo! He does love all kinds of hats .... glad he accomplished the somersault...

See you very soon ... Mom

Unknown said...

I love this list. The cat hair/dirt habit is esp. cute.

Anonymous said...

And the list will grow and grow. Hope things are going well.

Love always

Andrea said...

Sounds just like one of my sisters... hmmmm (except the cleaning part!)

Jill Anderson said...

what an accomplished young man!

we send lots of love from the casa. tell pablo we have lots of pans he is welcome to come over and wear any time.