Happy 21 months!

Guillermo turned 21 months today. It has been an eventful day!


First off, summer leads to much naked time at our house (well Guillermo is naked, Bill and I are USUALLY clothed), so this morning during some naked time, Guillermo started to get the "I am about to pee on the floor" glint in his eye. I quickly reminded him that if he needed to pee, he could use his potty. He marched right over to the potty, sat down, directed me to look away, and peed in his potty. When I finally decided to look at him (not wanting to infringe upon his privacy), he was holding his potty pot upright asking "What's this?". I started to race over toward him, but couldn't make it in time to stop the boy from pouring the full potty right down the front of himself. Ah, potty baptism. How's that for a 21 month birthday present!? Luckily, Guillermo had no issues with being covered in his own urine! Mommy, however, was a little grossed out!

Second, all we have been talking about is new babies since both Kristine (right on time) and Lindsey (a little early!) had their new baby girls this week. This is not very exciting talk for Guillermo. In fact, I was commenting on how adorable little Lydia is earlier today, and Guillermo went and fetched the book that his grandpa had made of photos of his first year...he wanted to look through pictures of himself as an adorable newborn, no doubt. So, we paged through the book for a while until he realized that he had successfully stopped all new baby talk and got bored.

Fun at the park

Guillermo and Aiko had fun playing at the park together today. As you can see, Aiko is soon to be a big sister, so these are her last few days of solo time with mom. She is 5 weeks older than Guillermo, but looking at her, you'd never know it. They have such a fun time together. I'm glad they have been able to hang out almost every week since they were 4 months old! We are all excited to see if she's going to have a little brother or sister!

20 months

Hard to believe my little guy is almost 2 already. Time flies! Here is a recent pic thanks to Lindsey Dene (I don't seem to take as many pics these days!).
Guillermo is turning into quite the toddler these days! He likes dancing (spinning being a favorite of late), chatting, cleaning (as always), copying mom and dad (wearing our shoes and clothes is big fun as well as wanting to use big people cups, chairs, etc.), and generally just doing toddler things. One hilarious new word is 'Kukuk' (my maiden name) for 'cracker'. He runs around saying, "Kukuk, kukuk, kukuk...". Guillermo also likes to make motor sounds...he has perfected motorcycles, trucks and the coffee grinder to date. Most often heard at our house, though, is "What's that? What's this? Who's that?". Grandpa Yellow keeps saying that at least he isn't asking, "Why?" yet, but considering how fast things go, I'm sure that is just around the corner.

Bubble day

After yesterday's adventure with bubbles at school, we decided to have a morning of bubbles at home. Guillermo has a new hobby. Our session ended with the dumping of the bubbles and howling while being carried inside...but it was fun while it lasted!

Happy 18 months!

And he turns 1.5!

Guillermo's unofficial weight is 31 lbs, though he fluctuates between 29 and 31 on our scale at home. Not sure how tall he is--we'll find out at his appointment in a few weeks! I was talking to Bill about his (Guillermo's, not Bill's!) language skills the other night, and commenting that some 18-month-olds can use 2-word sentences. I was saying that Guillermo isn't at that level yet, and went on to tell him how all day, Guillermo says, "Daddy bye-bye". Bill looked at me and said, "Babe, that's a 2-word sentence.". So, Guillermo has one 2-word sentence! Other words include, "ball", "bird" and "meow!" to name a few. New feats include using the big boy slide at the park, climbing the slide from the bottom to the top, spinning around in circles, fake falling with a dramatic flare, collecting rocks, watering the lawn and hugging the cat gently. Six more months until the big T-W-O!

Fire station

Here are a few pics taken by a friend from our co-op of Guillermo and his first fire station experience...he fell in love at first sight.


Taking me around the station...literally pulling me the whole time!

More interested in the camera at this point..that fireman kind of scared him.


Whoa that's high! A fireman went up it and back down...100 feet. Also, this sky is one of my pro items for Spokane. It was 85 or so yesterday...not one cloud...anywhere.

I was obviously intrigued by the ladder, but Guillermo wanted nothing more than to check out the truck stabilizers on the ground. He wasn't all that into the ladder.

Giving the scary fireman the look from inside the engine.

Stories

So, Guillermo has done a couple of cute things lately (well, especially cute since, as you know, most of the things he does are cute!). Two stories stand out:

Owww!
Guillermo's little friend Aiko came over to play the other morning. This is a common past time for the two of them--they've been getting together weekly since they were 3 months old or so. As they get older, they are starting to notice each others' existence and get excited to see each other. They run to each other and look at themselves, etc. They are also starting to play side by side and share key play items. Well, this particular morning, Guillermo was very excited and moving furniture around, yelling, etc. (this is something Aiko doesn't do). When Aiko and her mom were on their way out the door (a slow process at this age), he accidentally pushed one of our chairs into Aiko, pinning her against a window seat. Aiko, of course, wasn't happy at all. She cried, quit breathing, turned blue. I had moved the chair and Guillermo telling him that he had hurt Aiko. He watched her with a quivering lip until she stopped crying. Soon after, Aiko was leaving with a smile on her face, no damage done. She was actually trying to run back in the house for more play after they left. But, Guillermo somehow got it into his head that she left because he hurt her. He kept touching his head and saying "OW!" (he does this when he hurts himself) and then looking toward the front door and saying "Bye Bye". All during lunch when I asked him if he'd had a fun time with his friend, he would touch his head, say "ow" and then point outside and say "bye bye". This lasted until his nap--I actually tested him to see if he still remembered after he woke up, and he didn't. Anyway, it was sweet to see his reaction to making his friend hurt. Very sweet boy (when the mood arises anyway).

Marry me?
So, the other night, Guillermo noticed Bill's wedding ring and was trying to get it off so he could play with it. Bill kept saying, "This is my wedding ring, it's not for play", but Guillermo was intent on getting that ring. Finally Bill said, "Guillermo, you have to be married to have a ring like this....will you marry me?" Guillermo looked right at Bill and said, "NO!". Now, I'm sure he wasn't actually saying no to the question (he says no about pretty much everything right now...including when he's shoving food he really likes into his mouth...if you ask him, "do you like this?", he'll shove it into his mouth and say, "no", but in the case of Bill's question, the timing was perfect.