All about Ari... as usual. :)

It's time for an Ari update! In not so good news, he has another ear infection and we may end up getting tubes in his ears. But we have a couple of other avenues of treatment to address first that could be causing the infections, like a dairy sensitivity, so we'll see. He has an appointment with the ENT next week.


Fun things about Ari right now:

- he LOVES books and wants us to read to him all day long. Lately he is also doing this cute thing where he kisses certain pictures of babies or animals and puts his head down on the page to snuggle them <3
- he loves interactive songs, like clapping songs or Itsy Bitsy Spider etc. It is so cute to watch him try to make his fingers and hands do his bidding.
- he is finally starting to climb. This is a little scary but also fun to watch, and when he figures it out, he is SO incredibly tickled with himself and it's adorable.
- he is learning new words and signs weekly, or maybe daily. His newest word is "yogurt" pronounced 'gogur." His newest sign is "help." And he puts words together, like "gogur" with the please sign, or he signs "help please" etc.
- he is also learning to sing with his kid songs (mostly Wee Sing recordings). He loves the song John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt because he likes to sing the "da da da da da da da DA" part. If you ask him to sing a song, that's what he will sing to you. :)

My not so favorite Ari things right now:

- the tantrums are still going strong, and now he has decided to try to bite when he gets mad too. (Humans sure are aggressive by nature, I guess - this isn't a learned behavior, no one has ever bit him nor does he witness people biting each other, but there you go, he tries to bite me at least once a day now.)
- my little man who loved almost all food is getting increasingly finicky and picky about eating. He spits stuff out a lot now and refuses to eat food that he liked a couple of weeks ago. Maybe it's just because he's been sick so much the past few weeks, who knows. He spit out edamame tonight, he used to love it! He hasn't wanted grapes lately either. But really it's anything, he'll eat a couple bites of whatever, spit the third bite out and throw it away, then maybe take another bite of it later and eat it, etc. I know he won't starve, but it is still annoying and a waste of food!

Some photos from a fun park trip last week...