Week 85.25

Dear Nathan,
I can't help but admire how much you've grown every time I look at you. Sometimes when you are playing, or working on something, you become a little boy. Not the little baby that I held in my arms just a few months ago. They say your kids grow up so quickly, and I'm just now understanding the truth in that statement.

You have been babbling a lot more. You will babble to us as if you are telling us something that we should understand. I'm sorry if we don't understand you, but in time we will. You have not been able to make the "p" sound yet, but since you can make the "b" sound, I'm not too concerned.

When we talk to you (in both English and Chinese) you seem to understand us pretty well. You nod "yes" a lot as if you understand, but I know sometimes you are just nodding. At least you are positive.

Cats are very fascinating to you. Other things that you really enjoy or will point out are school buses, the moon, birds, dogs, reptiles (especially snakes), and flying insects. Hopefully one of these days we can take you to the San Antonio Zoo, where you can see all of your favorite animals (except for dinosaurs).

Artificial noises still scare you. If you don't know what is creating a sound, you don't like it and will shake your head to let us know. But other than that, you are quite fearless.

This week, you've been climbing a bit more. (And falling quite a bit too). In the pictures below, you are playing with a roll of foam that I got for a cushion that I made for our upstairs playroom.

 Not only were you rolling it around, you figured out that it would be fun to climb on top too.

 This morning, I found you sitting in a colander. You were quite proud of this achievement.

Another thing that you've been doing is climbing on top of the coffee table. Sometimes you do it so that you can throw things like balls off the edge, but sometimes you just climb up and stomp around. You have also figured out how to climb on top of the pool table. 

 This morning, you wanted to play the piano on a seat so you pushed the little ottoman to the other ottoman and climbed up. By the time I had grabbed the camera, you were already working on climbing up.

  

Sometimes it seems like you favor Daddy more. Like this morning, you and daddy were playing under the table, when I asked if I could join you, you shook your head and pushed me out. Other times you have pushed me away is when you are washing your hands. You are pretty insistent on washing your own hands now at home. You don't want any help from me at all. You are actually pretty good at washing your hands, you can pump soap, rub, turn on and off the faucet and everything. I just intervene because you like splash around sometimes and take a long time to wash. One day the novelty will end and hand washing will become a chore. Then I'm sure I will be wishing for these days again. 

Things with your baby sister are going well. We just had our 24.5 week check up and everything seems great. in about 3.5 weeks, I will be going through the glucose tolerance test. I remember feeling woozy and pretty much passed out afterwards. This time the birthing center has me going straight to the 2-hour test. We'll see how it goes. I didn't have gestational diabetes with you, so I'm hoping that I won't have it with your little sister. 

Another thing we talked about at the appointment was jaundice. The midwife told me that the chances of babies getting jaundice increase for each baby that you have. They will be monitoring the situation, but I really hope we won't have to spend any more time in the NICU this time around. 

That's about it for now. Love you lots! 

Mommy (not Dada, which is what you sometimes call me)