Dipa dipa dip

Dear Greyson,

Dipa dipa dip, that is one of your many new words. Dipa dipa dip is ketchup, randomly enough. We gave you ketchup for the first time the other night and you loved it! I showed you how to dip your chicken in the ketchup (which is where dipa dipa dip came from, we sang it as we dipped) and then eat it, which you thought was the greatest. After you ran out of chicken you just started spreading the ketchup around with your hand and then licking the ketchup off. Tonight we had hamburgers. Normally you won't eat hamburger but I got out the dipa dipa dip and you chowed down. Granted, you probably ate more dipa dipa dip than hamburger, but it was more hamburger then I've even seen you eat. We have also been giving you a fork when you eat. You don't really know how to use it, but you sure do like having it!

You have a few more new words! A favorite of yours is NO! It sounds more like "naaaa" but you sure get your point across! We ask if you want to get out of the tub, "no," we ask if you want a sippy, "no", we say, It's bedtime Greyson and get, "no!" It's been fun! (Please sense the sarcasm). It's actually quite humorous this sense of independence you have gained. I have to walk away quite often because I start giggling. This isn't really a new word, but when we ask you what a dog says, you go "uff uff" and then start panting. It's really cute! We started working on kitty now. You were starting to catch on! You would stick your tongue out and make a high pitched "oooow".

Bedtime was really sweet tonight. Dada gave you your bath tonight and boy did you love that! You splashed and splashed as hard as you could! Dada and the floor were soaked. After you got out we let you run around naked for a bit. That always puts you in a goofy mood. Aunt Libby and Uncle Jason stopped by and you greeted Libby at the door, butt naked! She laughed and laughed at you. You ran out the door and waved to Uncle Jason, who also laughed at you being naked. When we made you go in you got mad at us, which made Uncle Jason really sad. They don't like hearing you cry. When it's a temper tantrum Mama and Dada just laugh though. Anyways, about your sweet bedtime...we got you in your jammies and then got out a few books to read in bed. You snuggled up against Mama while we read three books. The one book we ended up reading three times because you loved it so much. The book is called First Words and it has one picture on each page with the word written. When I turned the page to a ball, before I could say it you said, "ball". Same with orange and apple, which were both balls, and the car was a "brrrrrrrrr"along with the truck and boat! It was so neat. We showed the picture of the cat and dog and practiced our animal noises with those pages and Dada tried to get you to quack like a duck. That's a tricky one, but I think you'll get it pretty soon! Mama and Dada agreed that we really need to read to you more. You love looking at books, but normally you don't want us to read to you. Tonight you enjoyed it though! So we'll keep trying because it's so important for us to read to you and it's good bonding time! I loved that you snuggled up with me, that doesn't happen very often!

Dada is not going to like me calling you this, but you are turning into a little monkey. It's true and he cannot deny it. You climb on EVERYTHING! The couch, chairs, tables, stools, laundry baskets, boxes, you name it, you are climbing it! Cindy, your baby sitter told us that she can't leave you for a second because as soon as she does you climb onto the kitchen table! Crazy boy! What's worse is, once you are up there, you have no fear. You jump from the couch to a chair. If there is a stack of pillows nearby you just can't resist and jump on them! Mama doesn't help matters either because when you get on top of things, like the coffee table, I laugh and count to three and you jump to me. It's our favorite game! You are so smart too, because you always wait until I get to three before jumping! Sometimes you count after me and then jump on three. (No, it's not really counting, it's more of a high pitched, uhhh uhhhh huhhhhhhhhhhhh")Everyone keeps telling me, boys will be boys, welcome to the life of boys, but holy moly buddy! You don't need to climb on everything! Another super cute thing you do is when I pull out the camera to take your picture you get this goofy "cheese" smile and hold it until I snap the picture. You also like to see the pictures on the camera now after I take them and then laugh when you see the images. Silly, silly boy!

I am loving this stage you are in right now. You come up and give hugs, wrapping your whole body around my legs, you blow kisses on command, you give actual kisses and babble all.the.time. I love our little conversations we have on the way home from Cindy's. You 'talk' and then I talk back, you talk more and then laugh! Sometimes we just blow kisses back and forth the entire way home. It's the best! A super cute thing you do is when I walk in the door to pick you up, you run over to me and as soon as I pick you up you start waving and saying, 'bye' and blow kisses. It's so cute! I always laugh and tell you I need to still get all your stuff and ask Cindy about your day, but I love that you understand that it's time to go and to say bye!

I love you buddy, forever and longer!

Love, Mama