Happy Mama's Day

Yesterday was Mother's Day and I was greeted in the morning with a great big "Hap Ma Mama!" from Henry! By the way, he's been calling Gabe Da-dee for awhile, but I've been trying to hang on to mama for as long as I can. Sometimes, he'll slip a Ma-mee in there, but for the most part, I'm still mama, which is just fine with me.

We had a wonderful day. Church in the morning, followed by a delicious brunch and a family nap! Since I've been sick the past weekend, and Henry the week and a half before, we've had someone in the house sick for two weeks straight. So a nap was definitely in order. And said sickness definitely rained on my fun plans for the weekend - College Football Hall of Fame on Friday, planting on Saturday and bike riding on Sunday. Turns out, the weather didn't cooperate either. So, we ran some errands instead on Sunday since that didn't take much energy and then I played outside with Henry while Gabe cooked a delicious dinner. Even though it wasn't a day too much out of the ordinary, I was lucky to be able to spend time playing with my Henry and enjoying being a mom. And I've been really thankful to Gabe whose been running the house these last few days - just call him Mr. Mom. I'm saving up a special bike ride on a new trail in a couple of weeks. No pictures with Henry yesterday makes me sad - but I'll take some with him soon.

Thought I'd take some time to update Henry's new accomplishments:

Henry's been adding so many new words to his vocabulary lately! He's definitely a pro at the two word combos, and he's adding in some three words too. "Uh-oh choo-choo" is a current favorite, whether a train has had an accident or something else! He loves making hot soup and saying hot soup. I'm not sure if he really knows what hot soup is, but he says "hot soup dinner" every night. And then just eats our regular dinner anyways. Some of his first sentences have been "I do that/this", "I don't want that", "I love dada and mama". He's been working on his letters, and can name quite a few correctly most of the time. His favorite color is blue, he always chooses blue when given a color choice, and actually he calls almost every other color blue too. But, he can correctly point to something that is blue, and we're working on adding yellow and purple, which he can say. Mostly sticking with red, yellow, blue and green though since most of his toys and art supplies are those colors. He recently used a spoon all by himself to eat a whole bowl of yogurt, and is getting better at stabbing with a fork, but still needs help to press hard enough to get the food on the fork. This morning, he marched and clapped at the same time to some music. His favorite toys are still trains for sure, and he still loves books. He even says "more books" when we go to the library, which he loves to do. We've had a few issues with temper lately, mostly when he was sick and he's doing much better now, but still some things set him off. Gabe and I are trying to remember to give him choices as much as we can, and that really seems to help. At the park, he can do the slide all by himself, which makes him seem like a big boy.

It's hard to believe that he'll be 21 months fairly soon and then only three months till my baby is 2 - and that is unbelievable to me. It really seems like we just celebrated his one year birthday and moved. In my mind, I feel like he is 15 months, just with more vocabulary. I'm proud of his accomplishments and growth for sure, but has anyone found the magic potion to keep them little yet?

Coming up soon - gardening, pictures from Gabe's adventure with Henry to the College Football Hall of Fame.