Caring is Sharing

Miles decided he would take is truck to daycare for show and tell yesterday (friday). He loves to show off his skills. I was a little worried he would have a hard time letting the other kids touch his toys, but so far, this isn't a problem.

There are 2 little boys that look up to Miles and try to mimic his every move. Nicholas (10 months) is just about ready to crawl and Nathan (6.5 months) is kamando crawling and pulling himself up to stand. When Miles walked in -literally- with his truck, Nicholas rolled over and wanted to touch. Miles gave him one of the little car's right away. When Nathan showed up, he did his little belly crawl over to Miles. Miles was soo happy to share (and show off!)

Miles and the other kids all took their turns checking out the truck - of course Miles is the only one close to walking so he hogged it a little. It's ok though, right? It's his toy... :) I'm just happy to see that he is capable of sharing. He's a little on the spoiled side.....

Thanks to a couple of you for the reminder about the family picture poster "game". We forgot all about shuffling up the pictures. He has continued to pull down our picture. One day, instead of hanging our picture back up, the teacher just set the picture up high for the rest of the day. In some angry little protest, he pulled down another little girl's family - the one right next to his picture. Since putting his family picture back up, he has left Cecelia's alone. I will talk with the daycare provider about mixing them up. I'm so sorry we forgot!

Miles' new favorite form of communication is grunting. If I ask him questions, the only answer I get is a grunt. I need to get this on video for you all. "Miles, are you done eating?" Grunt! "Miles, do you want more pancakes?" Grunt! Miles and I were dancing Thursday evening to the song from his 9 month video. The song cut out about half way through. His response was a stong, syncopated grunt until I got the song restarted and the dancing could resume! Boy, does this little man have attitude!?! He has lots of opinions and is struggling to make others understand. I'm afraid of words now - the grunts are kind of funny for now :)

Oh.. a bad habit seems to be forming. Miles wants me all of the time. He thinks mom needs hold him-all of the time. He used to be really good at playing on his own, but now he's super needy. His doctor told us that he's at the age most kids start the separation anxiety thing. I need to try and figure out how to stop it right away. Dropping him off at daycare could be tough if he's crying and chasing me as I walk out of his room in the morning.

Soo.. to say good bye for now, here's a picture of Miles less than 3 minutes ago. This is what he was doing as I tried to quickly finish up this blog - he woke up way too early from his afternoon nap!

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