Meet You

My son knows that when you shake people's hands you say, "Nice to meet you" except that when he says it, it comes out, "Meet you". It's the very sweetest thing. He shakes your hand vigorously and makes eye contact with you. Brilliant boy. When he is looking for you, instead of "where are you?" it comes out, "Are you?" I love the substitutions or deletions in his vocabulary. We are still pulling things a great deal. We also are spending more time outside. The other day we spent time shoveling in the backyard and hammering the side of the house. We also kicked around the soccer ball. Quinn is also all about driving the car. Getting him into his seat after Jo-Jo's is quite the feat. He'd rather crawl into the front seat and drive himself. He knows where the lights are and the mirrors. Heck, he can even open his door on his own while sitting in his seat. I have to be really careful to lock it! This past weekend Quinn and I went to the Walker for the first time for the Family Free Saturday. We had some fun moments in the sculpture garden looking at the big spoon and horse sculpture. He also liked walking through the arboretum. Quinn loves to be tickled. Lately, I have taken to writing the alphabet in his back and he loves the tickles. I don't even need to touch his back, but reach around like I'm going to and say the letter and he starts giggling. Silly, wonderful kid. His swimming lessons seem to have taken root in his world. At bath times lately, he loves to lay down in the water and float. He'll kick or push back until his head hits the end of the tub. His ears are completely submerged and his smiling face peaks out at you and checks to make sure we're watching. Quinn's newest pretending game is that there is water all around the bed or room and he needs to stay on the couch or bed because the water is rising. Pretty darn imaginative. We're newly into Crispix.