Trick or treat

Tonight we took you trick or treating for the first time.  You were in an adorable dragon costume sent to you by your Auntie Meg.  Mom went as Danyres Targarien from Game of Thrones, so she could be "mother of dragons". 

We went in the lucas valley neighborhood, which is a place we might live to live some day.  Your Mom's good friend Amy was back in town with her family, and they were trick or treating there.

You never got scared, despite the lights and scary sounds.  You've not really had much candy in your life so far, and we wanted to condition you properly, so after your first house, we gave you one of the mini peppermint patties you had received.  We knew you liked those because you went through aton of them at your great grandma's house.  You liked it, smiled, laughed, got excited, and then signed "more, more!".  I told you we had to go to the next house to get more.  (I carried you the whole time).

At each house, i tried to get you to sign "Thank You" for the candy.  You did a few times.  Your mom opened a kit kat and fed it to you in pieces.  We tried to find you candies that you could actually eat.

Your favorite part of the night, though, had nothing to do with candy.  A bright green 8 inch glowstick made you lose your mind.  You waved it around, you waved it in my face, in your face, and you grinned from ear to ear and laughed and wiggled.  You thought it was the coolest thing.  People kept giving them out, so by the end of the night you had quite the collection.

At home, once in bed, I let you play with your glow sticks.  Figure you won't choke or anything.  Can't hurt.  You're still in your crib babbling away by yourself.

I dont know how much of tonight you'll remember.  The kids in the neighborhood really seemed to be having a great time.  I hope we get to have a lot of fun on Halloween together.  I look forward to working on costumes of your choice when you're old enough to have a preference and express it.

My favorite tonight was a kid dressed as a candy vending machine.  Awesome.

We both love you so much.  So many people were so happy to see your adorable sweet face.

You're walking!

You're really on the threshold of finally breaking through.  Tonight in the garage, you chose to take the 5 to 7 steps from your mom to me, and then form me back to her.  We'd sort of hold our hands out just in front of you, to make it seem a shorter distance, and you'd go for it.  At first, you'd just dive at me when you got close, but eventually you realized you didn't need to hurry to finish, just to keep an even pace and walk up.

We were so thrilled and excited, and you were so happy that we were happy. I signed "again!" to you and you obliged.  Of course, when you get super excited, you like to try to nibble me, and you did.  So I also had to give you stern looks and tell you "no biting!"  But you don't mean it maliciously, you're just playing, but you don't understand it hurts.

Then you decided you wanted to look in my empty kegs.  And then you wanted to play chase, so I chased you behind the bar, which was in the corner in front of the storage shelves, and you'd lie on the ground laughing your ass off as I'd get closer and closer and then tickle you.  You went nuts laughing and chasing me around, too.  Then you got obsessed with the cat door.

Later tonight, you stood up, on your own at the corner of your changing table and took a few steps befor falling at the rug.  I was excited and signed "again" and asked you to please do it again.  You didn, this time making it all the way to me.  You did it about 7 times, going to the corner, standing, letting go, then walking over to me, which involved a turn.  Your mom got some video.

Your signing is also coming along in amazing ways.  You saw a moon in the Big Red barn book on the alst page, and signed "moon" with your left hand.  We tried to teach you the sign for "turtle" today, but it's not really an important word for you yet.

I gave you a bath tonight, and, as usual you try to turn the water on, which comes out cold.  You don't mind it but your bath water gets steadily colder.  So we try to move fast.  You had a great time, as always, with naked time on our bed afterwards.  You patted your mom's belly, then came over and didn mine, then back to her.  Pulling up shirts.

I clapped loudly to discipline Midori, who was trying to pull something out of my Burning Man accessory bag to play with. You thought the single loud clap was cool and tried to do the same.  It was awesome and adorable.

You're just the sweetest child.  You like to have fun, try things.  You learn very fast (when you care).  It's a delight to spend so much time with you.