New discoveries and old loves

You may get bored of me posting about our favorite things, but they are constantly changing. Ivan's pretty much loved darts all his life, ha, ha, all two years of it! He is not tall enough to hit our dart board, but thought the table was too wobbly to stand on, so this was his solution. He makes high pitched "ping" noises because that's the exact sound our dart board makes when we make a hit. I notice he doesn't say "miss", which is what the board says when we hit the wrong section. Apparently his throws are never misses. You can also hear him say that he's playing dart board.



The other night, he prayed before our meal. He said: "thanks for the food, dadda, momma, meme, saba, snaysnay, big buddy [unintelligible other things] slides, swings, amen". Slides, swings, pool, snack-- pretty important to him right now.


As for Dominique, she has apparently acquired an inherited family talent- foot chewing. I'm really not very good at it and I couldn't point to Brian as the instigator either, but both our babes loved this activity and have amazed the local population with their obvious superior toe sucking abilities. On the back of the picture of Ivan it says: "Ivan chewing his toes, 4 months old", so this is a time sensitive talent seeing that Dominique is 4 months as her craft is being tapped, or should I say snapped? While toes are handy, Dominique does not limit her talent to them. She will also use hands, fingers (hers or other's), toys, stuffed animals, blankets, hair, tables... to satisfy her chewing desires. They say to only breastfeed up to 6 months now, but I think this girl wants something more solid. I put an empanada (which is like a baked fried pie) in front of her today and she grabbed my hands and stuffed it toward her mouth. She didn't know what to do once it got there, but she obviously thinks eating is an attractive and enticing next step to her chewing performances.