D is for "Dada" - Week 42

Brian & Michelle Schnarre & Henry

The headline event for this week was Henry's first word. When Reggie came home on Friday from work, Henry, Laura, and Aunt Jen were all upstairs in the bathroom getting ready for Jazzoo (not Henry). As Reggie came to the top of the stairs, Henry looked at him, and shouts, "Dada!!" Then, later in the night while Reggie was making Henry's last bottle of the night, he crawled into the kitchen, sits up, and looks at Reggie and says "Dada" again (though this one was less "excitement," and more of a "dude, give me my bottle" kind of tone. He still says da-da to various other things, but we have all determined that he for sure knows that Reggie is Dada. Unfortunately, Laura still only gets random mumbles :) She kept going on about how she got gyped because she carried him for 9 months, and breastfed for 7, and this is how she gets repaid :)

Daddy's little boy!

There wasn't a lot of happenings the rest of this week. Laura took Henry to the pool on both Saturday and Sunday while Reggie did chores around the house. As always, our little guy loved every minute of it. Also, he ate it up that so many different people kept wanting to play with him in the pool!

At daycare this week, they apparently planted flowers outside, and they actually gave Henry a trowel. I'm sure he ate more dirt than he scooped! Also, he has apparently became a bit of a cleptomaniac. Trina, his "teacher," says that when the other kids get their meals, Henry immediately goes to work trying to take their food off their plates! Funny, the kid won't eat any solids at home!

All this fast crawling tuckers out a little boy!

Henry is officially a speed demon when it comes to crawling. You will put him down to play with some toys, and if he would rather be somewhere else (like Bella's water bowl), he will be there within 5-10 seconds. This makes it extremely difficult to make his bottles in the morning! Also, he has really taken to wanting to pull up on the toilet, beat it with some toy like a drum, and then try to flush it (hasn't gotten that down yet). Again, much like a dog's water bowl, you don't really want your kid all over the toilet, so that has become an every morning game/frustration :)