Category: Growth

I love you

I used to keep track of his new words – but I lost track.  Now it’s the phrases that capture my attention. Asher has been rolling off the phrases over the last few months, often surprising us as he puts together not a couple words but a full sentence or phrase to express what’s going on for him.

“Bye bye airplane.  Have a nice day.  See you later”

“OK daddy.  Let’s do this!”

today it was

“I love you”

It melts my heart.  There’s nothing a sweet child can say that sounds nicer than I love you.

I could go a dozen directions here, but I’ll be brief and just mark this milestone on the calendar with this blog post.  Today, January 3rd, 2015 – after a play date with Ben and a nice macaroni and cheese lunch, getting ready for a nap, being held in his mothers arms – is the first time our son has said I love you to me and it was awesome.  I can’t wait until he gets up from his nap and says it again.

“I did that”

Asher took at trip to San Diego with his mom to see Grandma Silvia and the rest of the San Diego family at the end of January.  I’ve grown to expect Asher to make breakthroughs when with Grandma Silvia.  He said his first word, dada, first crawled, took his first steps, all under her watchful eye.  I predicted he’d do some  talking during Christmas vacation, but instead we spent the week being a sickly bunch.  This trip made up for the last.  You’ll see why in a minute.

Asher loves to press buttons and flip switches.  We have a number of toys that he’s able to get immediate feedback from by pressing a button and hearing a sound or song or see a light come on or flash.

In the video below he has corralled his mom and grandma to help him get to the doorbell at Grandma’s place.  He’s on his step stool so he can reach and press it.  I notice, also, that he’s using his thumb.  At Christmas he would struggle to press that button down with his index finger and his middle finger.  I showed him that his thumb is stronger, I even explained it to him.  I see here, he understood.

Listen to what Asher says when he presses the doorbell.

 

Time alone with Asher

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Asher is 15 months old, full of energy and growing and changing all the time. He’s had various colds and sicknesses since November. His first fever was Thanksgiving weekend. Another I recall was during our Christmas vacation. He’s lying in his car seat getting a much needed nap and making a gurgling sound from his lungs that alerts us that even though he’s a busy body, he’s still sick.
Yesterday he took a solid three hour nap before Kathleen woke him up around 4. When it was time to go to sleep, he wasn’t interested and fought it until about 9:45. Then he was up at 3 am and rolling around in bed like he wanted to get away from himself. I guess the boy is still sick and feels uncomfortable.
I got up with him at 530 and he complained about being up but would not go back to sleep.
Now we’re in a parking lot, he’s napping, I want a nap. When he wakes up we’ll do our shopping.
Enough blogging about our adventures, day and night. I’m gonna nap with him.

Asher’s first steps

While this isn’t the best example of Asher’s first steps, it is the best of what I recorded.

The last time Asher was in San Diego, the end of April, he learned how to crawl. Commando crawl we’ll call it. He just slithered on the ground following the carrot his cousin Allie led him around the table with, which was some kind of toy on a string. Since then he has mastered crawling, so I’ll make the guess that it will be about 2 months until he is an independent infant.

I want to go on record that I predicted that he’d walk in San Diego. He waited until the last day, but he proved his papa right. He and I will have a successful career of prognosticator and achiever, I’m sure.

Just an observation, but his sleep patterns were very different in the days leading up to this breakthrough. We hope his brain has recorded and stored it and allows him to go back to a more regular sleep pattern.

Congratulations to Asher for his breakthrough!

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