Lars :: Itsy Bitsy Spider

Lars and I were sitting on the floor playing with his toys in the kitchen when a tiny spider crawled out of his cabinet. He freaked out so I grabbed a shoe and smooshed it. Then I tossed the shoe at the backdoor. He spent the next ten minutes or so afraid of the floor and the shoe. I eventually got him distracted enough to forget about it.

Then later that night we were at dinner with my mom and I told her and Adam about Lars being afraid of the spider when Lars suddenly pounded his hand on the table then pretended to 'throw' something over his shoulder. He was showing Gigi how we smooshed the spider and threw it out.

Lars :: Piped across the bow

This weekend at Dad's retirement in Chicago, Lars wanted to stand with Gigi and Papa up in front. It was technically a formal part of the retirement ceremony when an emotional poem is read (The Watch) and the outgoing officer and his wife walk across the "bow" for the final time. Lars was really insistent he be a part of it, so my mom grabbed his hand and Lars was piped across the bow with his Papa.

Lars :: The big helper

My sciatica has recently been really bad. Hopefully acupuncture isn't making it worse. Last night I was stuck on the floor and the phone rang. The phone I could get to was dead, so I asked Lars to get me the phone. Within seconds he was back with the other phone. I couldn't have told you for the life of me where it was, but he knew!

A little while later, when I tried to stand up, he came and put his arms around me and gave me a hug because I was crying from the pain.

Lars :: Words

Last weekend while in Chicago Lars put together his first sentence. He was starving and we told him we would stop at a McDonalds if we saw one and get chicken nuggets. While driving we passed on that was on the other side of divided highway and we couldn't easily get to it. So we hoped he hadn't seen it and kept going. He had seen it. Since my mom was driving he started saying "Gigi, vrrmm vrrmm, bock bock" while pointing behind him. He wanted Gigi to drive to the chicken that was back there. He shouted it all the way to the next McDonalds, which was thankfully only a few miles away - and on the right side of the road.

Lars :: The Potty

Today Lars was running around without a diaper because he's figured out how to take it off. I was in my room and came out to check on him and he had a dish towel in his hand and he was trying to clean up the pee that was on the floor.

Lars :: Martini boy

Yesterday morning Lars found a golf ball sleeve in his toy cupboard. He took it over to the freezer and filled it up with about three ice cubes. He put his hand on top and shook it up - just like papa.

Lars :: The POTTY!

Lars used the potty for the first time today. When I was going to the bathroom he followed me in and wanted to take his diaper off. He sat on his potty and went pee all by himself.

Then when we went to Little Gym, he pooped on the way in and refused to play until I changed his diaper. We had to race out to the car and race back in.