Language Explosion!

Mason and Austin playing with trains

Checking out baby Isabel

Austin pretending he has a baby in his belly

We went to visit our friends Rosie and Travis on Saturday. Austin had a blast playing with their son Mason and we got to see their new baby girl, Isabel. She is to cute and oh, that baby smell, I love it! Today we went out to the garden center to get a new bush and some Ivy for the outside of our house to enhance the "curb appeal" since we'll be listing it again soon. I think we're going to go get all the flowers to plant next weekend. If anyone knows someone who wants to live out in the middle of nowhere let us know! We'll make them a good deal:) Austin spent a good half hour pretending he was "pumper pat" (fire engine) today and spraying the garden hose all over everything, including himself! He was soaked head to toe but he thought it was great.

The past 4 weeks Austin has really been having his language explosion! I've worked with kids for over a decade and I've seen the early toddler language explosion that 2 year old's have, but when it's your own kid, it is so amazing! Some days he is adding 10 or more new words to his vocabulary and when he hears Mommy and Daddy saying a word that's new to him, he'll repeat it right away. And he has started making lots of scribble marks on paper and telling us that it is a story or book he has written! I love watching him, you can just tell his mind is going a mile a minute:)

Allen's Birthday is coming up in a couple weeks so I took Austin to JoAnn fabrics because he loves going down the aisle with all the unfinished wood items that you can paint. He picked out a cool birdhouse to paint for Daddy's Birthday and he started working on it this week and when he was done painting we hid it so Daddy couldn't find his present. I kept telling Austin, "Shhh, it's a secret present for Daddy, so don't tell him yet." Of course the day he finished painting it he ran to the door to greet Daddy when he got home and said "Daddy surprise, Daddy Surprise!" And of course Allen asks him what surprise and Austin tells him "Birdhouse Daddy!" It was so cute, you couldn't help but laugh, he was so excited about it that he was dancing around the house.

Austin has started getting interested in the potty again. He actually asked to try right before bathtime one day and sat on his potty for a good 10 minutes, though nothing came out:) And last week he told Daddy he had to go pee, before bathtime again, and Daddy held him over the big toilet and Austin went pee pee in the big potty! He thought that was so funny.