May 9, 2007--The cuteness of Timothy

Timothy is getting so big. He's saying so many words now, and it's fun watching him grow. He's getting really independent, too. He's finally doing well at potty training (mostly anyway) and can get on and off himself, and change his own clothes. He loves to change his clothes. He'll go through all the clothes in his drawer in one day. Today he's been taking them off and running around in the nude, though. He said a four-word sentence Sunday. We were eating Dairy Queen ice cream cones for Abby's birthday and Jay pretended to take a bite from Timothy's cone. Timothy said, "Jay, MY ice cream!" That's the longest sentence he's said yet! He's such a copycat. He does whatever he sees the others do. Sunday we went to the park and they have a pavillion with a stage. One of my brothers and one of my sisters came too, and they all put on a show for Erick and me. They would introduce each other, and come out and sing a song, and applaud. After they were done Timothy came out and introduced himself by pointing to himself and yelling, "Tim!" Then he hopped around the stage, singing in short little shrieks, "Ah, ah ah ah ah!" Then he bowed and applauded for himself. It was so cute. Today he motioned for me to put my head down towards him and said, "secret". I put my ear close to his face so he could whisper his secret, and he yelled in my ear. Ouch. Of course, I knew one of the others had taught him that, and I was right--Sarah had done it and he followed her lead and did it to me. Yeah, I know they need to set better examples, and it hurt my ear, but I had to stifle a laugh still because it's just the funniest thing watching him do exactly what everyone else does.