My last post was at the end of spring and the beginning of summer when my parents were leaving for Michigan. Since then, Aaron and I took a quick trip to Colorado to visit friends and experience our first trip away from Rohan. Rohan stayed with Nana and Bapa who flew down to Florida. In August I flew up to New Jersey to visit friends and their babies. September we all flew up to Minnesota, Rohan stayed at his cousins house while we went up north for a couples weekend. This vacation turned out to be an emotionally exhausting roller coaster ride. Unfortunately we lost our friend Clayton Houff who was in a tragic motorcycle accident when he hit a deer on the way to meet up with us for dinner. He will be remembered for his love for life, sense of humor and smile. At the beginning of October I flew to Michigan to help my parents organize their house. It was a quick trip but I was able to see a good friend and catch up.
Rohan has changed a lot since our last post. He is a little parrot and mimics almost all that is said. He has started to sing lyrics to songs, which is so cute. He loves La La songs. He dances and skips around to music. He is still in music classes on Sundays and last week he sang in the class for the first time. It's amazing to see how far he's coming in music class - the first class we went to he screamed his head off - now he's running around to the music and feeling the beat. He is still trying to understand how to share and why he is not able to do everything he wants to do. We have started "timeout" with Rohan and we think he knows now what it means, although when he is in timeout so are we because he won't sit in timeout by himself. He is fearless at times and runs off to explore the world and other times he stays close, puts his hand up to mine and says "walk". He loves to climb and run. He has a girlfriend at daycare who have a love hate relationship that involves biting at times. For a while he was the bitee and he finally was the biter - after all the times he was bit I didn't feel so bad when he was the biter. He's still sleeping in his crib and hasn't tried to climb out yet. We've found him in the morning with his shirt off and in his hamper, and he's taking off his diaper and peed all over the crib mattress. Today my fear came true and he had stuck his hands in his poopy diaper and had poop remnants all over his hands. 90% of the time he can tell us when he has pooped "poopoo". His eating habits are nothing to brag about - he loves chicken, meatballs, cheeseburgers, hot dogs, french fries and mixed veggies, snacks and cookies in between. When he doesn't want to eat he won't so we are trying to go with the flow. His sleeping habits have been great - 12 hours a night of sleep with a few spells of nightmares.
Its crazy to think that Rohan turns 2 in 6 weeks! The time does go fast! It makes me realize how I need to blog more and document the little things Rohan does because when I don't it all mixes together. Here is hoping I get better at that!
