He is crawling around like crazy and is walking as long as he can hold onto a piece of furniture. He is a little bit of a fraidy cat when it comes to walking. Which goes with his cautious, careful personality.
He is a big explorer and loves going new places. Unfortunately with this bitter cold he hasn't gotten to do too much outside the house.
Sterling has been waking up uncharacteristically (that sure is a long word spelled out) early in the mornings and not taking much of a nap. So we have been trying one nap this week and it has been working well so far. Which means more time to get errands done, sleeping later in the morning, and longer concentrated nap time. YAY!
All of a sudden our little Sterling has become quite the chatter box. As I mentioned earlier he is able to sign to us many things describing his immediate needs: milk (his favorite), more, all done, eat, please. He has also made up a few of his own. He reads a Winnie the Pooh book at my mom's house and I guess when Pooh says "think, think, think" she would tap her head like Pooh would. He loves doing this, so if you see him beat his head, he is not hurting himself, but saying "think, think, think," sometimes he will even verbalize the phrase sounding something like "/thee/, /thee/, /thee/" He also, will wave his hand (sort of a raise the roof with one hand) and say Tay Tay. Meghan used to do this because it would make him laugh so hard. We told her he would probably start calling her Tay Tay, and sure enough, he now calls her Tay Tay every time he sees her.
Sterling has also added to his verbal repertoire consisting about a week or two ago only of MaMa (sometimes still NaNa) and Daddy and sometimes thee, thee, thee, now to /ba/ or /buh/ (ball or balloon his favorite toys and now his favorite word), /ks/ (box), /pa/ or /puh/ (Pop or Pooh), /muh/ (moo), /uhuh/ (uhoh), /i/ (eye), /kee/ (KiKi), /tay/ /tay/ (Meghan) always with hand waving, and my favorite /tree/.
The last word is not in reference to the large plants in our yard, he hasn't gotten much of a chance to see those. I still have my Christmas cards hanging on my pantry door. Whenever we walk by them I see Sterling stealing a glance in that direction with a big smile on his face. So I started stopping for a moment to let him look at them. He loves looking at small children, real or pictures. I started noticing he was starring and pointing at our nieces' and nephews' cards. So I started thinking, well he is recognizing them so we started pointing and going through each name.
About a two days ago when we were doing this he started saying /tree/ which is the first sounds in cousin Tripp's name. So I said Tripp and pointed to his picture. Sterling did the same. Now every time we are in the kitchen he starts getting really excited and saying "Tri" - /tree/ and pointing at the Christmas card.
Sterling loves Tripp. He is always so sweet with him. Here is a precious picture of them together when Sterling was six months.
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WE LOVE STERLING!
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