Keltan is absolutely the cutest sweetest smartest baby in the world! Just thought I would throw that out there....
Since he was just a few weeks old, he has been intrigued with Baby Einstein films. We started showing him the sign language DVD (Baby's First Signs), where they show baby, daddy, mommy, milk, drink, eat, more, and other simple sign language words. We had gotten him to do "more", or at least a version of it, but he never seemed too interested in any others. Then, Wednesday night, as we were all sitting in the den (Grandma was here then, too), he started doing his version of the sign for "baby" and started saying it! It was pretty much one of the cutest things ever seen, but, of course, once we turned on the video camera, he was done. Since then, we have gotten him to do "eat" and a version of "daddy".
We got him a sandbox a couple weeks ago. I will say this - he is definitely the stereotypical boy. He loves loves loves dirt! At first, he was a little skeptical of the sand in the box, but now he loves it. He has learned to remove the top by himself (now we need to get him to replace the top), and he loves to scatter the sand all over the yard. As if I didn't already have a sandy enough soil!
Keltan had his first real experience in the life of an LSU fan a couple weeks ago. In their game against Tennessee, Daddy was getting frustrated. For anyone not keeping up with college ball, LSU is clearly a better team than Tennessee, but were playing horribly, and were allowing the Volunteers to hang around instead of getting the score out of reach. Well, Tennessee had the lead, and the Tigers were going down the field to try to score to win. I was quite anxious, and was telling the coach, Les Miles, what he should be doing and telling him what I thought of his coaching skills at that point. Poor Keltan made the mistake of handing me a book right about the time that LSU was near the goal line, with 24 seconds left, and they decided to start subbing in some players. So, Keltan is expecting me to read the book, I'm yelling at Les Miles, the clock is running down, and with mere seconds left, LSU fumbled the ball and lost it! The game was over, and at that point, frustrated Daddy jumped out of the chair, "gently" tossed the book on the ground, and in my quietest whisper, was telling Les what I thought of him and what he could be doing next season. Somehow, my quiet whispers scared poor Keltan, and he could not understand why Daddy was so upset with him. I had to explain that he was introduced to being an LSU fan, and it was his lot in life to have strenuous moments on Saturdays in the fall. I think he understood, because he quit fussing....
Speaking of books, the kid is crazy about books! He is always bringing a book to us to read, and sometimes we catch him in his room reading the books himself.
You know, I really enjoy this daddy gig.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
The fair
The fair's in town! The fair's in town! So we went.
The first thing we did was go to the petting zoo. All kinds of animals including goats, pig with piglets, camels, sheep, cows, ostrich, emu, kangaroo, and tiny horses were there. We started with the goats, and Keltan enjoyed petting them. As we moved into the bigger animals, though, he decided it was not such a great idea. He wanted absolutely nothing to do with a camel, but at least was intrigued with the big birds. He almost was enticed to pet the tiny horse, but I guess it didn't look enough like Raleigh to make the decision. After a bit, we took him out of there, and went in search of the greatest dessert food on earth (aside from Aunt Glo's chocolate and coconut pie) - the strawberry waffle balls!
These, for those unfamiliar, are this: a big, juicy strawberry dipped in an amazingly sweet chocolate, then coated with belgian waffle mix, deep fried, and sprinkled with powdered sugar. This was the whole reason I agreed to go to the fair.
So, we sat down on a shady grassy area to eat those desserts sent from heaven. Keltan liked them at first, then decided it was a lot more fun to run from Mommy. He would take off, and look back with a little evil grin on his face to see if she was chasing him. The little stinker....just like his mommy.
Fortunately for us, he fell asleep after that in his stroller, and we had an easy hour and a half.
We took him to the pig races. This had the promise of being a very entertaining event. He was pointing at the pigs and jabbering, so we thought we had found something fun for him. Turns out, though, that the speakers were so loud, they hurt his ears. I could understand, since they were hurting mine as well. So, we had to exit.
We went down the way and bought a $5.00 ear of corn. FIVE DOLLARS! Let me tell you - I could buy a lot of corn for $5 and make it taste a million times better! But, the lemonade was good. Anyway, since Keltan loves corn, we knew we couldn't lose. It took quite a while to cool it off, but when we did, he was munching that corn! He had an incredible time running up and down all the steps where we were sitting. Of course, this kept Daddy busy - but what else are we for?
On another topic - he is starting to form some words now. He has "da-da", "ma-ma", a variation of "five", and what sounds like "off", though we can't figure that one out. We very seldom say "off" around here - we always tell our dogs "down" as opposed to "off", so who knows where he got that one. At times, he will say "daddy", or a loose interpretation thereof, and Inga said he said "thank you" where it was words as opposed to the sounds he makes when imitating my tone of voice. So, he is moving along there.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Monday, October 4, 2010
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