Judson Update

**Warning: LONG POST
~Mostly for my journaling benefit, but read on to find out a whole bunch about Judson! I promise to post a picture soon.

I haven't written solely about Judson in such a long time. It's so crazy how much he has grown. We buzzed his hair on Saturday and he looks like a little boy, not my little baby. He also turns 2 at the end of the month. Time flies!!! Anyway, I want to make a list of a lot of the things he can do and say. He is a talker. Any moment he's awake, he's talking. It's fun/annoying, but I'm glad he's learning and growing.

Talking:

~He says "where did ---- go?"/ "---- where are you?" for every name he knows.
~He knows all his cousins and aunts and uncles names.
~Shut the door, open the door. (he often mixes up the shut and open)
~Again
~All Done
~"go to the new house?" We just keep calling it the new house. It's easier, that way he knows exactly where we're going.
~He knows a lot of animals and their sounds. We've always quizzed him on the sounds, but I've recently started reversing it and I say the sound and see if he knows the animal. He can get most of them.
~He knows a lot of body parts: head, hair, ears, eyes, mouth, teeth, tongue, nose, arm, elbow, hand, fingers, belly, belly button, leg, knee, feet, toes.
~He knows shirt, pants, shorts, diaper, socks, shoes and PJ's.
~He's finally catching onto "please"
~We're working on "thank you"
~He says spaghetti, "figelli". It's so cute!!
~He can ask for almost anything: "drink, food, cracker, cookie, cheese, figelli, milk, fill-up, elmo, dora, wiggles, max & ruby, backyardigans, wonder pets, blues clues"
~Names all the Sesame Street Characters.
~He loves to sing songs. The songs he knows are: I am a Child of God, I Love to see the Temple, Popcorn Popping, Jesus Wants me for a Sunbeam, Twinkle, twinkle, Itsy Bitsy Spider, ABC, There was an Old Lady that swallowed a Fly, Old MacDonald, 5 Little Monkeys, C is for Cookie, How Do You Know from Enchanted, Rubber Duckie, Themes to Dora, Elmo's World, Wiggles, Blues Clues and Wonder Pets. (The wonder pets boggles my mind. I've tried to get him to watch it and he's really not interested. However yesterday he not only asked to watch wonder pets, he started singing the theme song.) I'm sure there are more songs that I'm not thinking of right now. He just loves to sing!
~I let him sit on my lap and turn the steering wheel once. Big mistake!! Now every time I pull in anywhere he asks "drivin' the car?" With a huge grin on his face.
~He says music as, "mikick"
~He loves swimming in his little pool and says: "swimmin' in the water"
~He loves taking baths. "ki a bath?"
~He says take as, "ki"
~Everything he says comes out as a question. I'm guessing that because everything I say is a question. (ie... Say please? Say I love you? Say bye, bye?...)
~A lot of what he says he sounds surprised. He'll look around, find a toy and say, "Oh, my golf ball" like it's the first time he's seen it in forever. It's super cute!!
~He will hug a toy and say "i love you, I love you, I love you" He hugged me yesterday and said that too. It was the best!!
~"Daddy at work, yeah? Daddy at work?"
~"Grandma and Grandpa Stoke" (Stoke is always said as he pulls his chin to his chest in low growl-ish voice) "Grandma and Grandpa Farr"
~ He can count to 20, well, sort of. He counts, "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (deleven), 12, 14, 14, 16, then I prompt 19 and he yells 20"
~He loves his blanket and I'm trying to only let him have it when he goes to sleep so he often says, "oh, where's my blank?"

Things he does:

~runs, jumps, climbs
~feeds himself quite well with a spoon or fork. He loves to poke the food and gets really frustrated if it doesn't stick on the fork.
~takes off his shoes
~opens doors. Our doors kind of stick in the new house, so there aren't many he can open. That's good in my book.
~starting to go up and down stairs walking without holding the railing. This gives me a heart attack every time I watch him do it. But he hasn't fallen much and if he feels unstable he'll usually grab the wall or sit down, so he's good about that.
~Turn the tv off and on and change it from Video 3 to all the different video settings.
~Turn the light switches he can reach on and off. He will also move his dump truck so he can stand in it and reach a light switch. Why the dump truck and not the stable chair sitting right next to it? I don't know.
~He cleans up his toys when prompted, most of the time.

I'm sure right after I post this there will be a bunch of things I remember to add. But this is a good list of all the things Judson can do and say now. He's growing bigger everyday and we just love him so much. He's a wonderful blessing to us and I'm so grateful he's ours!!