my favorite things

as you might imagine these are all cashel related...

1. play ring around the rosy with me and/or jason and 'dropping' whenever he pleases

2. for some reason we can't figure out any time...and i mean anytime...we can be indoors or out...if a helicopter or airplane flies overhead cash stops whatever he is doing, puts one of his arms up to 'wave' and says 'bye byes'

3. his favorite word these days is 'up'...even when jason or i put him to bed...if he's not quite ready to be left alone he'll say 'up' and we have to pick him up to cuddle a bit more

4. cuddling a bit more before putting him to bed

5. he's had an explosion of words lately...he says his own name and the names of his friends at school including his teacher's name...in his own 'speak' of course: 'augie'(for his friend august who everyone calls auggie), 'tricia' (for his teacher miss patricia), 'annie' (self explanitory)...we're working on charlie, charlotte, brenden and henry. he says 'jason'...miss patricia tells me that when she changes his diaper she always talks to him about our names and it's so funny because i'll say, 'cashel, say jason and he says jason but when i ask him to say robin he says mama!'

6. since the ncaa tournament is on these days he has managed to establish a position of watching the games while standing on one of our footstool cubes

7. more of his favorite words: no, shoes, bird, sit (while pointing at the puppies), and any noise he can make with his mouth

8. he loves, i repeat, loves to dance...he'll turn up the music on the stereo and go at it and often begins to shake his head and clap in the car when music comes on