Our kids are growing sooo fast these days! I just wanted to document a few adorable things that Deks is doing so I don’t forget! As I’ve mentioned before, this blog is fairly therapeutic for me to write. Its nice to be in the groove of it, and I don’t know if I would keep up so well with it if it was just for me, on paper. But it is sort of a memoir type of thing, in the way that I hope to go print it off and have a hard copy for my kids to read. So this is more an info post that is mostly for my enjoyment 🙂 Hopefully some of you can appreciate it.
Dekker is an entertainer. He wants to be watched all the time. “Watch Detter! Watch Detter!” He will get down on the floor to Laela’s level and say “La smile at Detter” and wait until she does. He loooves Laela. This morning, both kids were in high chairs at the table, and Dekker came down out of his first. As usual, he went over to Laela to say hi to her and check on things before heading to his toys. Normally, he just says “Hiiiii Laaaaaa” in a higher, wandering voice. I guess its his baby voice 🙂 But this morning. He was a bit more serious, and said “Hi. Lay. La.” He glanced over at me to make sure I caught it. Yup, I did. In the last few days, he’s been using her whole name more. Its nice to hear it! So anyway, he greeted her, and then assessed the situation. She had thrown/dropped all of her toys onto the floor. Dekker threw his hands up and said “LAEla, uh-oh! Toys!” and he picked them up for her. He is the best brother.
His latest phrase, from the last two days, is “not today!” Its so cute to hear him say it when we ask things like “Can I tickle you?” or “Do you want milk with your cereal?” He’s a cutie.
Today, he told me he has greasy hair. Fact. It doesn’t help that I spilled iced tea on his head. Do I see a Mother of the Year Award in my future. No, I do not.
Ok ok, last one! We watch a decent amount of “19 Kids and Counting” around here. In the beginning, they list off all the kids by name. When we first started watching, Dekker would say “Josie” over and over, and request “More Josie’s.” It was super cute, and I figured she stuck out because she’s the little one and is introduced a bit differently. The other day though, Dekker watched the intro and said “Detter likes John.” Well, that was kind of hilarious, in my opinion! Why not like John? Sure thing, Dekker. And now, this evening, we were watching a 19 Kids special and they were recapping older episodes. One that really interested Dekker was when a couple of them went skydiving. Dekker loves any vehicle right now, including planes. We watched the clip and at the end, out of the blue Dekker comes out with “Jim Bob flies up in the sky!” I thought maybe I was making it up, but he repeated it. Turns out he’s really listening to what we watch in the background! Crazy boy.
Bottom line, I totally love that boy.
Wait. I mean Dekker. Not Jim Bob so much…