Talking Sentences...?

Yeah, I could not believe my ears this morning as I took Aaron out to the shopping center. I heard "Bye-bye, beep-beep" "Bye-bye, baby", "Bye-bye aak (flag)" here and there from him:) As you can tell, the sound "b" is his favorite now. He picks up words with this sound immediately. I am also suprised that he's talking English, because his passive vocabulary is definitely bigger in Russian. But it must be that sound "b" that makes him say "bye-bye" instead of "poka-poka"

It also funny when he starts waving "bye-bye" to Cliff in the morning while Cliff is in the middle of getting ready to work. We keep telling him that daddy's not leaving yet, but he keeps waving and saying "bye-bye":) He's hillarious. I love boys!

He's gone through so many changes once he turned 1. As if he grew up in a night. I look at him and I am sad to admit that he's not a baby any more. He talks, walks, almost runs, climbs everything "climbable" and "non-climbable", naps once a day, refuses to be rocked and falls asleep in his own crib in 8 minutes. We're having more and more of sleeping -through-the-nights, but we still have some really rough nights. He's always on the go. He wants to be held only when he wakes up. The rest of the time he's pretty much independent. I definitely miss the closeness that I used to have with him when he was a baby. One year of it was not enough for me. One more pleasant change-he started to ask to potty. He is not consistent with it yet, but I've heard him saying "aaa" couple times during his play, and I put him on the toilet, and sure enough, that's what he wanted.

He's getting his MMR vaccine today and I am very concerned. Please, pray that he does not have any adverse reaction to it.

On the weekend we had an opportunity to say our good-byes to Great Aunt Carol and the boys as they were flying through DC on their way to Tanzania. Aaron graciously allowed to be kissed and gave some high fives to Adrian and Neil. He also enjoyed opening his B-Day presents:)