Today I felt like I experienced a small victory in my mothering skills. I was planning to read Austin some books and kept calling him over to sit with me, when i realized why he wasn't responding. He was holding one of his (empty) toy baskets and putting some of the toys into it. He was also saying "clean up, clean up". He was initiating cleaning up his toys! This is definitely a first, though we have been working on cleaning up and putting things back for months now. Of course, he still only put about 4 toys in the basket before he got distracted by one of them and stopped (it happened to be a small stuffed pig. He then went to find Daddy, since Daddy makes the best pig oinks in the family). Still, I was impressed and hope this will be a trend.
We of course were outside this morning and I decided to bring the camera along. I wanted to capture Austin walking around, since it has changed so dramatically since many of you have seen him only 5-6 weeks ago. I also included a funny video clip of Austin with rocks today- especially for you, Dad!
The backside of Austin moving quickly is what I see most when we are outside!
Here is Austin with a "big rock". We have been learning about big and little lately and he has begun associating this with rocks. After holding it a few minutes he discovered is was muddy on one side- listen for his reaction.
Here is Austin officially on the "up and down".
Today was very windy, which is very common for the spring here. Austin does not really like it when it is "win-ie" outside, and happily says "all done" the minute the wind dies down. He was sitting here outside a door in our apartment complex during a rather strong gust.
Here is Austin near a pile of "big rocks" in our neighborhood.
1 comments:
love the videos! thanks for sharing those. mom, char and i sat around laughing at the "yuck" comment. i hope this is followed by a video next week where austin finds a "distasteful" rock.
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