Trikes and Ramblings

Rand learned how to ride his trike yesterday! He still can't reach the pedals, but he figured out how to push with his feet and get the bike to scoot forward. He is having a blast. At one point he fell off and skinned his knee but that couldn't stop him from getting back on.

I'm feeling quite insulted right now. Rand was getting his nightly nursing session (yes, I know he's almost two....) when he stopped and asked me for some milk. I reminded him what he was doing, and he said that he was thirsty. So I went and got him milk. And there was no more nursing for Rand tonight.

Rand found "Beloved," the Toni Morrison book on our shelf. There was a picture of the author on the back cover, and Rand looked at it and said, "Lela?" (That's his word for Grandma Girard.) Now, if you've seen Candida, you could see how she and Toni Morrison would look alike to a little kid. Werner almost died laughing.

Werner ended up sleeping in Rand's room a few nights ago because Rand was having a rough time sleeping. At one point, Werner woke up during the night with Rand's face inches away from him. Rand looked at Daddy with a huge grin and said, "Pasta?"

Rand is starting to pretend a lot. It's so fun seeing his imagination grow. He has a xylophone that he pretends is a vaccuum, and he uses it to vaccuum under the table and chairs. He has put his stuffed dog in a time-out, too. It always seems like we're mean parents when he does that, but really, he gets maybe three time-outs a week.