Trace has learned a lot over the past 3 months and seems to be adding new words to his vocabulary daily. He will attempt to say most any word when asked. Some of his most recent words are "Ta" for Trace, "tuh" for truck, "moo" for moon, "ki" for kick, "ea" for eat, "boo" for peek-a-boo, "buh" for book, "bah" for blocks and ball, baby, Wii, and "tt" for t.v.. I'm sure there are many more, but those are the ones that come to mind. Trace is learning to walk up/down stairs vs crawling down them. However, I still encourage the latter as the former makes me nervous! Trace has learned to jump and can actually get both feet off the ground at the same time. Our neighbors just gave us their trampoline and he loves jumping on it!
Trace has learned how to take our finger and drag us where he wants us to go. It is pretty cute. Most of the time it is to get us to play blocks with him. He can build his own little towers now, but he really likes it when we let him knock our big towers down. Trace has recently discovered Legos and seems to enjoy playing with them too. Trace still loves balls. He can actually throw, catch and kick a ball. I'm amazed at how well he catches and kicks for being as little as he is! Trace really enjoys pushing things around the house. He especially likes running behind his larger cars/trucks while pushing them along the ground.
I continue to be amazed at all these "boy" things that have just come so naturally. However, in the past couple of months, Trace has developed a fascination with trucks, buses, and planes. I was getting frustrated with him because while driving around he would constantly be saying "Mum, Mum, Mum, Mum, etc.,". I would ask him what he wanted and he would just continue saying my name over and over again. It made driving around town a bit obnoxious. It took me about a week and I finally realized that when he was saying "Mum" it was because he saw a big semi-truck and wanted to show me what it was. Once I finally discovered what he was trying to tell me he just smiled and pointed at the trucks. That was one mystery I was happy to solve!
Another thing that Trace enjoys is going on walks. He likes to drive his little car while we push him around the block. However, he also likes to do the walking himself and often makes quite a commotion attempting to convince us to let him out of his car or whatever is restraining him. Unfortunately, this has made taking him shopping quite a challenge and not a pleasant experience, as he is constantly wanting out of the cart. That is if I was able to get him to sit in the cart in the first place. I didn't realize that boys started to hate shopping at such an early age! I told him I want a new shopping partner, but my options are a little limited during the day...
Trace continues to work on going pee pee in the potty. There have been days where he has gone up to 3x and other days where he hasn't gone at all. I think he mostly enjoys sitting on his potty because he gets to read books. His favorite book is one that has a bunch of pictures of animals in it. He loves it when I say the animal sounds and when I get to the bee at the end of the book and start buzzing and tickling him. He has a great husky little voice and loves to laugh. He has learned how to blow "farts" on our skin, which is pretty silly. He also is a great dancer! He has his own signature move, where he puts one shoulder up in the air and moves around in circles with a little swagger. He has quite the personality and is such a source of joy for us!
The kids had a great time trick-or-treating and man did they get a ton of candy! Kaylee dressed up as Barbie Thumbelina. Kianna dressed up different everyday this weekend. She ended up as Princess Cinderella tonight and Trace was a dalmatian. Trace had fun walking around the neighborhood carrying his bucket. He especially liked grabbing the candy out of the bowls and saying "chay chew" (AKA: thank you). He looked adorable walking around out there. The girls had a great time too. This was the first year they were really into trick-or-treating, especially Kaylee. She didn't want to stop. What a fun weekend!
