40 Months

I feel like Timmy is turning into a little man!  His communication level is just astounding, he will actually tell me a little bit about his day at school or at Baba's, which I love.  He is enjoying learning new songs at school, last year they were all nursery rhymes that I knew, so I could figure out what he was singing and join in or help him out if he forgot a word, this year I don't recognize them all.  He's been singing one that starts, "Black cat, black cat...." and then he says two more lines, but I have no idea what he's saying, and he wants me to sing with him.  Yesterday, waiting in the drop-off car-line he asked me to sing him a song, "You know, the song about _________.  Sing me that song please."  Unfortunately, I did not understand the word(s?) that belongs in that blank, and he was not giving me any other hints!  So sometimes his songs are hard to understand, but in general his speech is very clear and his vocabulary and understanding (and use!) of descriptive words frequently surprises me.

I regularly talk to Timmy at bed time about what we're going to do tomorrow so I think he has a pretty good understanding of the concept of tomorrow.  Yesterday on the other hand is anything that has happened in the past, not just yesterday.  I am trying to help him with that now by talking during our morning commute about what we did yesterday.  Timmy is a very happy guy and he will express himself with words pretty well.  My favorites to hear are, "I can't wait, it's going to be SO much fun!" or, "I'm so excited to _______!"

Timmy will even occasionally communicate for Tyler... but it's usually when Tyler is being quiet, not babbling, so that kind of surprises me.  I'll even ask Timmy what Tyler is saying, when he is babbling, but Timmy just says, "he's telling us a story" which is what Mom and I would say when Tyler first got talkative.  But other moments, when we're all playing on the floor together, Timmy will interpret Tyler's silence.  Recently Tyler was on his back and I leaned over him, and my hair fell towards Tyler's face and he smiled.  Timmy said, "Tyler says he likes your hair, it's so pretty."  I guess it's Timmy's phrasing that surprises me, saying "Tyler says" instead of just saying, "Tyler likes your hair."  I will try to think of some more examples.

Spoiler alert for Tyler's next update post, but he is rolling over now, and has been since October 7th.  I think that is more frustrating to Timmy then when Tyler just stayed put, because now he thinks Tyler is really ready to play.  Timmy will run over to Tyler, lay on the floor and put his head on Tyler's tummy and squeeze on him, getting grunts out of Tyler, and when we tell him he needs to be more gentle, Timmy says, "I neeeeed to hug him!" which is adorable and I'm so happy he loves on Tyler like that, but he still needs gentleness for now!  Last night I melted a little bit, he was in that same pose with Tyler and he was quietly saying, "I love you, I love you sooo much!"  What more could a mother ask for?

Another highlight of the past month for Timmy me is that he has gotten up in the middle of the night a few times to go pee, without waking me up to make me witness it, and has put himself right back to bed!  The first night he did it I didn't even know, in the morning I had been praising Timmy, "You were such a good boy last night, you went right to sleep and didn't get out of bed a single time, good job!" But he corrected me with, "Well, I got up and went pee, but I got right back in bed."  I was shocked and excited, and I got to witness a repeat of this the next night when I heard his door open because I happened to be up feeding Tyler. I was so happy as I watched him over the monitor, tucking himself back into bed and getting all of his stuffed animals situated, any reductions to the number of times I wake up at night are happily accepted milestones!

I guess the last thing I should mention in this post is that we have recently discovered that Timmy is an Angry Birds prodigy.  I guess he first saw it on Tim's phone, it has now been downloaded on mine and all of his grandparents phones as well!  He will find one of our phones lying around, and can turn it on, unlock the screen, do the swype password, find the apps, turn on the game, and beat the puzzles.  He understands how to aim, to get more power, everything!  The first time I played Angry Birds, I got to a level that took me more then 3 tries to beat, and I quit.  Timmy has currently beat 22 puzzles on my phone, on his own.  I'm hoping this early understanding of physics will continue and translate to good grades in high school!