A Clarification

Joey is awesome. I feel like my last couple of posts about him have been mostly negative, and although that's with good reason, it's very focused on a small amount of the time. Most of the time, he's a great kid. He's bright, he's very good with puzzles (already! And we thought Sam was doing them early!), and he understands a lot.

His current favourite thing to do is run. (Normally after his brother, but he's happy just running.) After supper, Julie or I will wash him up in the bathroom and he'll start saying, "Go go go go go". We set him down, yell, "Go!" and he'll take off. It's amazingly cute, still. My guess is it'll still be cute when he stops doing it, which will be a bit of a sad day.

His speech is doing well - he's got a dozen or so understandable words, and he's a decent mimic when he wants to be. He's also at the stage where he just babbles to himself almost constantly. I wish I knew what he was saying, because he sure thinks he's saying something. I was sitting on the floor in the den the other day when he walked up behind me, grabbed my head and said, "Blrf!" and walked away. He seemed satisfied.

We got us some good boys. Harrowing and trying, but that's little kids. They're still way on the plus side of the scale.