The Positives

After re-reading a few of my most recent blogs I feel like I've been too negative as far as Garrett is concerned, so I thought I would share some of the funny/cute things that he does. Thanks everyone for the encouragement and advice on the last blog. I'm feeling better about things today now that he has started back to "school" and I've had some quiet time. It's amazing what a short break can do for you.

~He loves to pull one arm out of his shirt and stick it through the neck hole, so he looks like Tarzan with one arm and shoulder bare and the other still in his shirt. Of course he doesn't know who Tarzan is and he usually gets irritated with his shirt being like this after a little while and then comes to me demanding that I put it back on correctly. I think he's trying to take the whole thing off, but he hasn't quite got that figured out.

~He says many things with some weird accents. The main accent being Spanish. He rolls his r's a lot and pronounces double ll with the yuh sound. I don't know if that even makes sense after re-reading it. One example, a girl's name in his class is Bella. He pronounces it Bay-uh (which would actually be the correct pronunciation in Spanish, atleast how I learned it.)

~His favorite movie currently is "Toy Story". He calls it "Stody na". The d sound going back to him sounding like he's rolling his r's. I have no idea where the na sound comes from or why he says it like that. If I asked him to say the word toy and then the word story, he could do it, but put them together in the form of a movie title and it's totally different.

~He absolutely loves his Buzz Lightyear and Woody dolls that he got for Christmas. When he sees them after being separated for the eternity of bathtime, he gets so excited and hollars "Buzz!! Woody!!" He can't go to bed without them. The other day Woody stopped "speaking" (the battery went dead or something). Garrett kept telling us he was broken. We needed a special battery, which we didn't have so we couldn't fix him right away. But later that day he started working again. Garrett was absolutely beside himself when he heard Woody talk again. It was like he came back to life.

~He also loves to watch "Toy Story" while playing with Buzz and Woody. He makes them re-enact the scenes, even repeating most of the lines while doing it.

~He very rarely will ever sit still long enough for me to read a book to him. About halfway through the story, he's ripping it from my hands and saying "the end". Yet, he sits all the way through "Toy Story" and many other long movies.

~He loves his friends Drew and Avery. They've come over several times, and he's also been to their house many times. We occasionally run into them at Walmart, so now every time we're grocery shopping, he asks me "Where Dew, where Avey?" Sometimes he will just randomly say "I want Dew, I want Avey".

~Anytime a song comes on the radio with a good beat, Garrett always bobs his head in time to the music with a big smile on his face. He also repeats the call letters of some of the local stations when they're saying them between songs; KLTY is his favorite, and if we're listening to 99.5 the Wolf, he has to say "wolf" and then roar. He also can sing along with the theme song of "King of Queens".

~If we would let him, he would survive on cheese with an occasional apple, cookie, and piece of chicken thrown in there.

~Anytime he picks up his sippy cup to take a drink, he has to shake it to be sure there's something in there. If it is empty or feels low, he won't even attempt to take a drink, he just bring me his cup and repeats approximately 1000 times "I want water", even though he typically is drinking milk, all liquids are water to him.

~He thinks we're torturing him when we ask him to say "please" and would rather do without something than to say please. Yet, he says "thank you" and "welcome" without any problems or prompting.

~He knows all of his ABC's, can sing the song, and if I hold up a random card with a letter on it, he knows it.

~He has recently started counting to 13 without me even knowing he could do this. We've been counting to 10 for a while and then yesterday he went to 13 while I just looked at him.

~If you ask him for a hug, he will come up to you, lean against you, and say "awwww". No arms wrapped around anything. He did this to a girl at his Christmas party. He leaned on her until she finally put her arms around him and hugged him.

~He hates having his hair cut and will cry the entire time (which is why I've only had a professional do it once and I've done it the rest of the time). Last Saturday I cut his and Keith's hair. Garrett went first and then took a bath while I cut Keith's hair. About every 5 minutes he would hollar at Keith to make sure I hadn't killed him yet. He didn't understand why Daddy wasn't upset about the haircut as much as he was.

~Even though I have referred to myself as Momma since the day he was born, he has called me Ma for several months now. Nobody has ever called me Ma but him, so I'm not sure where this is coming from.

~One afternoon this past summer I was mowing the yard, Garrett was inside napping (still in the crib at that point) and Keith was doing some work in the kitchen. I looked up at Garrett's window at one point and saw him hanging 3/4 of the way out of his crib, pulling back the blinds on his window, and waving to me. I knew one of two things was going to happen, he was going to fall out of the crib and hurt himself or he was going to break the slats on the blinds (they're the wooden kind). Thankfully neither happened, but he also didn't take a nap that day.

~One day I walked into the bathroom and found Garrett sitting in the sink with the water running all over him. Thankfully it was cold water.

~Another time I walked into the guest bedroom and found him standing on top of the dresser eating potpourri. Atleast his breath smelled good.

~One evening he went to Keith with my nightgown and bra and asked Keith to put them on him. That will make a good blackmail picture at some point down the road.