It's been a while...

Santiago been busy this month building skills. His vocabulary is exploding. The other day he formed his first sentence. "Poo bye-bye" said after a diaper change. Ah, that will be good fodder for Mom embarrassing him in front girlfriends when he is fifteen.

He is a very expressive guy. There is no doubt when he is excited about something. His face lights up and he shouts and hoots approval.

His physical skills are developing as well. He is getting more comfortable with trying things out and enjoys the success of accomplishing climbing something new. Gymboree has been a great place for him to crawl and walk over and under things. He has fun when we go there. He is pretty intent on getting the instructor's, Jaime's, attention when he's doing something new and cool. He'll do it over and over again until she notices.

Santiago is reading. He can interpret pictures in a book and will flip through picture books on his own. He also sits down with Mom & Dad's books and papers intones "UUUUUUHHHHH" to Mom & Dad's pleasure and Santiago's glee. He recognizes the letters U, W and O.

He enjoys swimming, playing with the trains his cousins sent him, rolling tape rolls (which he calls wobble-wobble) across the floor, playing in and with water, going to the park and kicking his soccer ball around, reading and being read to, visiting grandmom & granddad's house, standing behind the doors to the washroom then busting out of the doors with peels of laughter, mariachi music, spotting cross-walk signs, cement mixers, green and blue city buses, school buses, and backhoes.