Brrr....

This post is a mess. But, there are few things I wanted to get up and entered in before I forget them. We've spent every night this last week priming and painting after putting William to bed so I am behind in my entries. The Grandparents McGarry are scheduled to arrive tomorrow evening to help us this weekend. That news has motivated us to spend as much money as humanly possible to ensure we have enough stuff here to keep Grandpa busy for the entire weekend. Flooring arrived this afternoon, the ceiling supplies for the office were purchased yesterday. Tile, mortar, grout, and more paint have been purchased and sit ready for action. So, forgive the disorganized mess of this post and don't count on hearing from me again until Monday.

William was introduced to ice cream for the first time around Christmas. We try not to do too many sweets with him because we're still working on getting him to eat the right amount of the healthy stuff (advice welcome on how to get him to eat meat and fresh fruit). I don't want him to hold out until he gets the unhealthy scheduled snack of the day.

That being said, we do bring out the good stuff every once in awhile when he's already eaten well during the day. Today was one of those days and we pulled out the ice cream as a treat. As soon as he saw what was in the bowl he said "Brr.....!" and made a beeline for it. I wasn't scooping it into his mouth fast enough which was reason enough for a small meltdown on his part.

The funny thing we've noticed over the last few weeks is he is now using "Brrr..." to mean anything that has a temperature. When warm pizza was put on his plate, he reached for it. When he found out it was still pretty warm, he pulled his hands back in surprise and said "Brrr...!". Too funny.

We're never sure what will come next - tonight he begin mimicking the sound of a sneeze, saying "Choo..." after John sneezed loudly for the third time in a row. Today he also came out with an "Up-p-p-p" while standing at John's feet reaching upwards. The 'p' is very pronounced and very cute.

The B words (not the naughty B words) are becoming difficult. He has so many B words, unless he is reaching or pointing to something, it is impossible to tell what word he is saying. The following list of words sounds completely identical:

Bear
Blanket
Book
Ball (sometimes has the L sound at the end to help me out, sometimes not)
Ba (the sound you make when you kiss someone)
Bark (dog)
Balloon
Beep (car)
Belly
Bath
Bless you (Ba when you sneeze)
Bread
Baby

Hopefully we reach a place where we are all able to understand each other or I see frustration in our future!