Yes, it is not very typical, but we have snow in Denmark, in March. However, we decided to make the most of it and had a fabulous morning playing in the snow. We decided to go to the park nearby so we could sled down the small hill. We pulled Silas in the sled and played hide and seek on the way. When we got to the park Silas wanted to do everything but sled, she he found the slide, buckets to put snow into, the swings and then finally after I took the sled down the hill, he wanted to try too! We took many trips down until finally ending at the big tube slide where I sent snow down to Silas and he laughed and giggled when it splashed in his face. We pulled him all the way home in the sled enjoying the sunshine and winter beauty.
Silas continues to be more and more fun. Now we can almost have a little dialog with him and he answers our questions. He definitely has a meaning about how things should go and No/nej are popular words. But just in the past few weeks he has learned to say Ja/yes, so that has been refreshing and quite cute. However, his usual way of saying yes is...
Silas: More milk
Us: Do you want more milk Silas?
Silas: Okay!
In general his vocabulary grows substantially by the day. We tried to write down all the words he knows, and we easily reached 200 and thought of a few more over the next few days. Some of my favorites are the longer words like "gyngehest". He says them quite slowly and then smiles. Silas also strings multiple words together, "Mommy, try, eat." and gives me a bite of invisible food.
Silas enjoys his slide, climbing up and sliding down in all directions. He also like to put the slide all the way up to the coffee table and just sit there. Another hit is his scooter bike. He can really zoom around the house now and sometimes tries to have his blanket with him, or wear our shoes and it doesn't always go so well! Finally, CARS are also a favorite lately. He likes to open the doors, and repeats the word "open, open" for a long time pointing at pictures of cars in books.
Listening to music continues to be a daily routine. Silas has started DJ-ing and likes to change the CDs every 2-3 minutes. Songs with actions are becoming popular and now include "The Wheels on the Bus" (in Danish and English)
Silas really taken an interest in pointing and naming things. Some classics are pictures of people, he points and then yells "FARFAR"...for example. He also likes pointing to facial parts and saying what it is..."Far, næse"...."Mommy, hair."...etc.
Lastly, Silas is very aware of his surroundings and proves to us on a daily basis that he is aware of more than we realize. I'll give you 2 good stories.
1) He was at the grocery store at daycare...when they got up to the cash register they heard a beeping noise...Silas looks up at the checkout lady and says "Ding, boller færdig"....Which means "The rolls are done."
2) One of my socks got wet so I took it off. A few minutes later Silas comes up to me, points at my foot and says "Uh-oh Mommy foot". Then he runs out of the room and I hear him in our room opening the closet. He returns a minute later with a pair of my socks.
Here are some pictures of what he/we have been up to lately.
Since September, Silas and I have been going to Mommy/child gymnastics. The class is called Power Babies, and there are various activities we do. We always start and end with a song or two, other we have races, parachute games, balloon swatting, bubbles, etc. The last 15 minutes we bring out a lot of mats and make an obstacle course. In the beginning Silas was not so excited about anything other than the cart that the mats came on, but over time he began climbing and jumping on the mats and especially liked crawling through the tunnel.
Sadly enough, the gymnastics season is now over. It ended with a gymnastics program for all the classes in our entire town. The Power Babies put on a show to music with everything from Balloons, Bubbles, Hide and Seek, song and being pulled around on a big sheet. It was fun for us to participate and all of the Power Babies made it through the 5 minute show without any complete meltdowns. Søren and Farmor came to see it and afterwards Silas had fun watching some of the other shows.
