It's becoming a habit, leading off a post with apologizing for how long it's been since I last made a post, so I won't do it this time. We're just so busy with work and the kids that night is all we have to take care of the other things on our plate. We're all just beginning to recover from a two week long cold, so that didn't help this situation either.
I'm getting a little off topic, so I should start talking about the reason for this post: Jonathan. He still doesn't say much, but he's saying new words every day. Sometime soon he's going to put it all together. Things have calmed down a little bit with his medical issues, but we're still not sure if we're making progress or if he's growing enough.
Regardless of his growth, he's been saying and doing the following:
1) His color is blue. Obviously we've helped this by giving him a blue blanket, painting his room blue, etc. We still have pictures up around the house of Julia as an infant, but Jonathan is convinced (and will insist) that the pictures of Julia where she's wearing a blue shirt are really pictures of him. He won't be convinced otherwise.
2) He takes his color to another level and gets excited at things he sees that are blue. He likes the blue train on the show Chuggington and points out anything else he sees that's blue. The other day Stacey and the kids were at the store and he saw a huge roll of blue fabric in the corner. It must have reminded him of his blanket, because he ran over to it, yelled "blue", and gave it a big hug. Another woman in the store got a good laugh out of it.
3) He got really excited about Stacey's new vest jacket. Stacey put it on today, Jonathan got all excited, and then said "Momma cue" (cute), to let her know he approved of her purchase. He also really likes his new sneakers and wants to show me every time he puts them and/or his pajamas on.
4) Yesterday he decided to stop using the word "yeah". He replaced it with "yep" or "yeppers". He was copying something he'd heard Julia or us say in the past, but the lack of prompting made it funny. I'd ask him a question and he'd come back with a "yep". Pretty funny.
His little personality is starting to show a lot, both from his words and his actions. He's a very particular or strong willed child at times. He is exhibiting all of the classic two year old traits, which makes us realize just how unique Julia was since we never had to deal with these things. At the same time he's also very sweet, randomly coming up and giving us hugs or patting Julia on the hand when she's hurt or being concerned when she's crying. It's almost like he's all crazy boy yet still is aware enough of other people to make me think he's going to be more of an extrovert. One good example of this possibility is that he seems to like being goofy and making us laugh. He exhibits some traits that make me think he could be a class clown or at least someone who likes to joke around. Julia liked to be silly at this age too, but it's different in that he seems to be acting rather then just being silly for attention's sake. Julia has always been a lot more literal and exacting, but it's hard to explain.
No matter which child we're talking about, both have already provided us with many memorable and happy moments. I'm sure things will continue to be just as good as time goes by.