The Light of Our Lives

Z is lighting up our lives these days. He' still crawling around like mad, pulling up, and cruising. His favorite (and pretty much only) word is "light." Light turns on, he points and says "ligh ligh," light goes off, "liiigh," you approach the switch, "llligh." We always reply, "yes light."

He blows kisses and has just started playing peekaboo. Sometimes he gets confused though and puts his hands over his ears or on his head. Another game that's a big hit in our house is when we ask him for something, he gives it to us and then we usually cheer. This started one day in Sylacauga and like 5 of us would cheer every time he handed one of us a toy, now he expects that every time, but no worries, if we don't cheer for him, he pretty much is happy to cheer for himself.

He talks now with inflection as if he's actually saying something. I usually respond with, "really? and what else happened? He still loves books, and now he likes to "read" them himself.

One thing he started at his birthday party is dancing. He particularly does it when my dad sings to him. He sings a song that he made up for him which basically uses many different terms of endearment and asks God to bless him. The song also has his name in it. He's been singing it to him basically since he was born, and Z has always liked it, but now, every time Z hears it, he starts rocking back and forth and even side to side a little bit. I have now seen him "dance" to some other songs too. The boy's got rhythm. *might want to turn down the sound, my dad's voice comes through a little loud on this clip.