Brenden has absolutly been cracking me up lately. He has taken it upon himself to yell at the dogs every time they wrestle, which is pretty often with those two crazy pups. He sticks out his little pointer finger and shakes it at them while saying “ah ah ah.” It started off with him yelling at them when they were in trouble anyway, now it seems to have progressed to whenever he feels they need to be yelled at. And a lot of times he is shaking the finger and looking at me when he says it, like he is trying to let me know that I need to yell at them. He is also pointing at everything under the sun and saying “dat?”

He has also started waving goodbye to me and then going to the front door, standing on tip toes and reaching for the knob. If only he could reach that lock, I’m pretty sure he would be out the door and down the street. One day he went for the door so I put his shoes on and we went for a walk. He walked all the way around the block.

Instead of putting his food onto the spoon and then giving him the spoon to use himself, I’ve started just giving him a bowl or plate and a fork or a spoon and letting him do it all by himself. He doesn’t actually get a lot of food on the utensil, but he works so hard and long at it. And then when he gets hungry, digs in with his hands. He thinks that is especially fun with macaroni. He’s doing much better on eating with this set up and is actually finally eating 3 meals a day most days.

He is still obssessed with the phone as you’ll see in the picture below. Everything is a phone. He plays with the real phone, the fax machine phone, his toy phone, the cordless phone and the real phone my parents gave him to play with. Obssessed I say.

He is really into climbing things now. He is working on being able to climb up on the couches, but they are still a bit high so he just hangs there half on half off and grunts until we help him up. But he can get down by himself, and that is the part he loves. He thinks he is so big when he’s up there.

Ok, last funny thing. One day for some reason he became aware of the electric can opener. The next thing I knew he wanted to get up and look at it several times a day. This started when my Mom was watching him every day and I forgot to tell her about it so she’d know what he wanted. Turns out I didn’t need to worry because she figured it out when he stood pointing up at it and growling. And now he does that every time he wants to see it.