Oops, still no new pictures today. The day didn't go quite as I'd planned, and I didn't get really any time at all to play on the computer. It's not bad, though; it was a fun day, even if it was a bit busy.
My dad was needing to run wire for surround sound in his bedroom, so he called up my uncle that we visited earlier in the week. Uncle Bill is good at that kind of stuff. Yesterday they started working on it and determined it to be a two-day project. That means today he came over here again, this time bringing Aunt Mary with him. We made quite a day of it.
While the menfolk worked on the men tasks like tearing holes in walls and running wire, us women talked make-up and baby talk. While Patrick took his afternoon nap, we went for pedicures. It was so much fun! Patrick really took to his aunt and uncle again, and I loved having two more entertaining people to keep him happy as bedtime approached.
He ended up taking only one nap all day. His day started nearly two hours later than normal when he just kept sleeping. Tired boy! Since he got up so late, it was pointless to put him down for a morning nap with only a few minutes of morning left. He had one long afternoon nap instead. By dinnertime, he was exhausted again, but again it seemed pointless to put him down for a nap that close to both dinner and bedtime. We used every trick in the book to keep him up until a decent bedtime so that he wouldn't wake us up too early tomorrow.
We suspect the reason he's slept so well the last night or so is that he was and still is teething. I noticed this morning that his upper gums on either side of his existing teeth are white, like those eyeteeth really are about to break through this time. And then when Matt got him up from his afternoon nap (I was still getting pampered at the nail salon), he noticed that Patrick has a molar way back on the right side poking its way through. The poor kid must be in lots of pain from all those teeth! That makes the current tooth count nine if you include the molar, with two more on their way soon.
His new words for the day include "Bye" and "boop," both repeated after Nana. We're excited about boop, since that's the first game we ever played with him. He also mimicked Nana when she had to cough this morning with a funny throaty noise of his own. He'll only use that noise to mimic Nana's coughs, though, even if they're fake.
It's been so much fun watching his language development this week. He's much more willing to attempt repeating words, and many of them sound really close to the actual words. A few of those words are making their way into his regular vocabulary, and he repeats them as though he understands their meanings, "itty" for example. Before I've realized what's happened, he'll be chattering away to me, and I'll understand every word of that baby talk.
My dad was needing to run wire for surround sound in his bedroom, so he called up my uncle that we visited earlier in the week. Uncle Bill is good at that kind of stuff. Yesterday they started working on it and determined it to be a two-day project. That means today he came over here again, this time bringing Aunt Mary with him. We made quite a day of it.
While the menfolk worked on the men tasks like tearing holes in walls and running wire, us women talked make-up and baby talk. While Patrick took his afternoon nap, we went for pedicures. It was so much fun! Patrick really took to his aunt and uncle again, and I loved having two more entertaining people to keep him happy as bedtime approached.
He ended up taking only one nap all day. His day started nearly two hours later than normal when he just kept sleeping. Tired boy! Since he got up so late, it was pointless to put him down for a morning nap with only a few minutes of morning left. He had one long afternoon nap instead. By dinnertime, he was exhausted again, but again it seemed pointless to put him down for a nap that close to both dinner and bedtime. We used every trick in the book to keep him up until a decent bedtime so that he wouldn't wake us up too early tomorrow.
We suspect the reason he's slept so well the last night or so is that he was and still is teething. I noticed this morning that his upper gums on either side of his existing teeth are white, like those eyeteeth really are about to break through this time. And then when Matt got him up from his afternoon nap (I was still getting pampered at the nail salon), he noticed that Patrick has a molar way back on the right side poking its way through. The poor kid must be in lots of pain from all those teeth! That makes the current tooth count nine if you include the molar, with two more on their way soon.
His new words for the day include "Bye" and "boop," both repeated after Nana. We're excited about boop, since that's the first game we ever played with him. He also mimicked Nana when she had to cough this morning with a funny throaty noise of his own. He'll only use that noise to mimic Nana's coughs, though, even if they're fake.
It's been so much fun watching his language development this week. He's much more willing to attempt repeating words, and many of them sound really close to the actual words. A few of those words are making their way into his regular vocabulary, and he repeats them as though he understands their meanings, "itty" for example. Before I've realized what's happened, he'll be chattering away to me, and I'll understand every word of that baby talk.
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