18 Days to Celebrate 18 Months -- Expressions

Want to make my little guy smile and laugh?  Tell him you're sad, and make a sad face.






Yeah, you read that correctly.  He thinks sad faces are hilarious.  If I say something makes me sad, he'll say "Mama sad" and laughs when I make a sad face.  This does not bode well for future interactions with his peers.

One of his favorite books (he has about 100 favorite books, or it feels that way at least) is One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (a personal fave of mine as well).  He loves this page:

In case you can't read it on your screen, it says "Some are sad.  And some are glad.  And some are very, very bad."  He turns to me when I'm reading this and enjoys each of my expressions.


He not only enjoys expressions, he's quite the expressive guy himself.  Here, I asked him to "smile."

Hmm, gonna have to work on the smile.  At least he's got "show me your tongue" downpat.

My little guy -- so expressive.  Where does it come from?

Oh yeah, he gets it from his daddy!  Seriously, I took these two shots within about 10 seconds of each other.  They couldn't see each other, but they were making nearly the same face! 

Books

Kara can't make it to Tyler's birthday party (it's coming up... can't believe he's almost one!), so she, Addison, and Mom made a visit the other day to see him and give him his presents.

He needed a little encouragement opening the presents

but quickly got the hang of it
(he is an expert paper-tearer, as we have unfortunately learned around the house...)

Tyler's favorite thing to do these days (other than eat) is to read books, so I was glad they gave him a book (he also got shoes, jeans, and an interactive toy that's like a car dashboard).  He immediately wanted someone to read to him:

Grandma to the rescue

"Mom, stop taking pictures and come read me this book!"

"Nevermind.  I'll read it myself."

And then hours later, he cornered Aunt Kara and made her read to him:

Upstairs, Addison wanted to play dinosaurs in Tyler's room.  She took all of them (and there are quite a few!), lined them up, and proceeded to ask Kara and Mama how each of them protected themselves.  She liked the show Dinosaur Train.  Can you tell?

Tyler, on the other hand, wanted nothing to do with his dinosaurs.  What did he want to do?  Read books.

the part of "Wide-Mouthed Frog" where he puckers his lips; Kara must have known what was coming when she snapped this pic