A Mind of His Own

Makaio is the child that only does what he wants to do x 10. We have been trying to work really hard to get him walking before his second birthday and in return he has worked really hard to show us that we can't make him do anything he doesn't want to do. He can actually walk a distance of 30 feet if he feels like it and if he doesn't he will walk to the nearest support and stop. He here he is doing just that.

Old Man or Gentleman?

He walks with his hands behind his back all the time. He must be an old soul which makes him both an old man and a gentleman!

Bookworm

Kekoa loves to have books read to him. He knows which books are his favorites and will bring you book after book as long as you sit on the floor and read them to him. He has started to become pretty independent and so he likes to sit in his reading nook and read to himself. I love hearing him try to mimic certain things that I say or do when I read the books to him. One of my favorite things that he does is turn to a specific place in a book, over and over, because he knows that I will make a noise or say something that makes him smile.

Here he is in one of his favorite reading spots. We've been thinking of upgrading to a chair although I sometimes wonder if he will like it as much as he does the Costco butter box.

Peat and Repeat

Lately the boys have been playing together so well that sometimes they get into a lot of trouble. It seems like if one of them comes up with a bad idea the other one thinks it is hilarious and so they go with it. Makaio is usually the one to copy Kekoa, especially when Kekoa chooses to hit me or throw a fit or run away when I ask him to come and list goes on.

Their latest trick is to get into the cooking utensils drawer and play/hit with everything they get their little hands on. Yesterday we were trying to get ready to go to a physical therapy appointment and I needed to take a shower. I figured that they couldn't get into that much in the kitchen so off I went on my merry way. I was wrong! When I came out of the bathroom I found that my kitchen had been turned into a splash pad. They used their utensils to press the water button on the fridge and that is when the fun began.

Makaio was happily dispersing the water around the kitchen while Kekoa held down the button to ensure that an adequate amount of water was available. Makaio was soaked from head to toe and though the water was freezing, he didn't seem to mind one bit. Kekoa was happily encouraging Makaio to splash harder by screaming unintelligible phrases and laughing with each and every splash.

If only I were the "fun" mom then I would have let them continue their newly developed game and taken a picture or even taken a video but I didn't. I like to think that if we weren't in a hurry to get to physical therapy that would have been the case but sadly sometimes you just have to teach your children about good choices and bad choices. It is a good choice to play in the water and have fun. It is a bad choice to turn the kitchen into a splash pad while mommy is in the shower or at any time for that matter.

Over the past couple of weeks Kekoa has started to scream out in pain during his nap and I have had to go into the bedroom and rescue him. I think that what keeps happening is that he tries to turn around and get out of his crib and then once his legs are through the slats he can't quite figure out how to get them back into the crib. He usually cries/screams until I go in there and help him but yesterday he didn't. He took a four hour nap yesterday just like this.

Since I found him like this yesterday I decided that it is probably a good idea if I go in and check on him once he falls asleep. It's a good thing I did because he was napping away with his legs dangling out of the crib again today.