Sometimes we miss the little things…

The last couple of weeks I have been trying so hard to get Tucker to learn “head”. Every chance I got I would point to my head, his head, David’s head, do whatever I could to get him to learn head. I was getting so discouraged because he just didn’t seem to be catching on. Well, I was so focused on teaching him “head” that I was missing out on the other things he was learning. So, here’s the latest on the little things…

If you ask Tucker, “Where’s Tucker?”, he will point to his belly with both pointer fingers and to the best of his ability say, “Tucker”. It literally made my day the first time I noticed that he did that. When you ask him, “Where’s Daddy?”, he’s really getting good at pointing to David. By the time we get to Mommy I think he’s lost interest in the game.

Tucker has caught on to what it means to close things. Last week I asked him to close David’s dresser drawer, and after he did we clapped for him. So now he will walk around closing anything he can and then turn to us and start clapping waiting for us to clap.

Clapping is his latest obsession. Ever since the drawer closing, anytime he does anything that we ask him to do he wants us to clap for him. Our little Ham! :)

“No” is being learned quite often lately. He loves to get into anything and everything, but he’s quick to respond when we say no… most of the time.

We love Tucker so much. We sometimes wonder where our little baby went, then we look at him and remind ourselves that he just turned into our fun toddler. He’s got such a personality and we love watching it grow and expand every day. He still loves going to the child care at the courthouse, which makes me so happy. Next month David and I will be leaving Tucker for the night with His older Sister so we can get away for a night. I’m nervous… not for how Tucker will act but for how I will handle being away from him. It’s nice to know that he’ll be an fantastic hands and he’ll have SO much fun with his cousins.

Here are some recent pictures.

This is how we often find Tucker. We can’t put anything close to the edge. :)

This is the face he usually gives us when we say “No”. He’s pretty sure the open mouth grin will help him get away with anything. Sometimes it works…

Sometimes he gets away with a “souvenir” of his latest conquest.

Last but not least, sorry for the blurry picture and red eyes, but I had to share this with you. Can you see the curl over his left ear? That is what the back of his head looks like now. I LOVE IT!

PS. I promise he wears clothes. This was after bath time. We usually let him run in a diaper for awhile because he LOVES it! :)