Where'd Tommy Go?

Over about the last month, Eddie has finally started talking. He has always known a healthy amount of words, but now he is quickly learning more. It's fun to hear him say people's names or try to repeat things that we have said. Dan and I now have to be good about watching our language!

And the first sentence that Eddie put together was "Where'd Tommy go?" Which sounds more like "Air Dommy dough?" He says this anytime Tommy wanders off somewhere Eddie can't see him. It is funny to see how aware of Tommy he is. And the next sentence was close to the first with "Shhhh, Tommy sleeping." This is what I say 10 times a day to remind Eddie to be quiet while Tommy is napping. So now anytime we walk past the bedroom door, or something is too loud, Eddie will say this.

It has been amazing how fast he is picking up on speech. He gets quite animated when he tries to tell you something. And his voice always drops really low when he says "Big truck!" And daily he asks about 5 times, "Daddy home?", which I think is darling. Then Dan gets greeted with a high pitched "Hi, Daddy!" when he walks in the door. He has also started trying to sing, especially to hymns at church. And without too much help, he can count to 5 pretty good.

But his favorite word is Tommy. He talks about Tommy all of the time. And if he wants to say something but doesn't know what to say, Tommy is said about every other word. Too cute if you ask me!

Desitin

I thought he was napping...but I was wrong. I heard a noise and went upstairs to find Eddie covered in Desitin butt cream. I'm not sure if you can tell from the pictures but there were globs smeared in his hair. I put him in the shower to try to wash it out, but I had no luck seeing as the whole point of Desitin is to repel liquid.

I finally googled it, hoping that my child wasn't the first to do this and thankfully found some very helpful ideas. I ended up having to wash his hair with vegetable oil to get the desitin out, then dish soap to get the oil out. I have washed the clothes and bedding several times but it won't come out from there either. So I finally googled that and now have some ideas to try that will hopefully work. Oh the joys of being a parent! Always a learning experience!

Tommy's First Haircut

Tommy had his first official haircut today.He has had a major comb-over for the last few months, but I found it too darling to get rid of it. And since his hair is so blonde, you couldn't even tell until there was a breeze and this way long chunk of hair would stand up!

I took him to this place called Cookie Cutters that does nothing but kids haircuts. They were amazing! All of the seats are cars like the one Tommy is in. So you can pick from the firetruck or the airplane etc. Then each seat has a tv screen so they can pick out a movie to watch as well. They had books, toys and suckers as well to use in case things weren't going smooth.

This was the first haircut Eddie has had that he didn't scream the whole time. Neither one of them cried a bit. They did so good!

You also might notice Tommy looks a little beat up in these pictures. He got into a fight with a cement stair and the stair one. He scraped up his nose and has a huge goose egg between his eyes. Poor kid always has an injury of some sort.