Season Change

The air is getting cooler; it's easier to sleep at night, and the mornings are brisk. As the season changes, it brings home other changes and all the little milestones whizzing past us now.

• First Steps -- long gone. We're on to running and climbing now.


• First Laugh -- only a memory. We're working on fake laugh in response to other's now. And can't forget the full on giggling fits that we engage in nightly as the tickle monster visits us before bedtime.


• First Foods -- wow. I don't even know where to start with this one. We've zoomed past purees to eat any and everything we can get our hands on. Which leads me to...


• First Signs -- eat, drink and more. No big surprise there. Now every time he passes the kitchen, a table, even a playset that looks like food, his fingers instantly hit his lips. Adorable.


• First Words -- again, no surprise. Dog. Although it comes out backwards and sounds a little more like God, there's no question what he's saying. And he loves to point out every dog he sees and tell us about it. Mama, Dada, Nanny, Poppa, No no no (which is particularly cute because he wags his finger while saying it). We're now learning cat, bird, fan, light, car and kiss.


• First Non-Word Word -- his favorite. Monkey sounds. He loves to go "ooh ooh ooh" every time you say or see a monkey (or resonable facsimile thereof).


• First Tantrum -- enough said.
  

Some of these I've posted about before, but the changing of the leaves just reminds me how quickly he's changing too. I guess this year we're officially past many of the "firsts" and moving inescapably into the "seconds."