A laundry list of updates

Since I haven’t posted a prose update in a while, I thought I’d hit the highlights in list style.

• If you haven’t seen the photos or heard the news yet, Nathan is officially a toddler now. He walks and damn near runs, which means he can get into a lot of places in the apartment that he could not before (see the second bullet point) and reach a lot of things he could only grunt at before.
• Nathan can open some doors, the ones that have the elongated handles, anyway. Thankfully, he can’t yet open the normal, round-handled doors (like the one that leads out of the apartment). As a result of this new skill, Nathan likes to close himself into rooms and closets and then get himself out of them again.
• Nathan is learning to climb. Just tonight, he was able to climb onto the couch with his mommy, which was a first. He’s been more or less climbing out of the tub by himself for weeks now.
• Nathan can give hugs and does so often now.
• Nathan can give you a kiss, when he’s in the mood. Sometimes he even closes his mouth and does it politely.
• Nathan can bite you. On purpose. Watch your fingers, or in my case, your nose.
• He can say a few words. He says things like “num num num” for tasty food and “hey” when he wants your attention. He says “mamamamama” and “dadadadada” occasionally. This is in addition to his “nananana” for banana and his version of “out” when we tell him to get out of whatever he’s gotten into.
• Nathan yells back when you yell at him for getting into stuff he’s not supposed to be into.
• Nathan always, always wants to go outside, even when the weather is horribly inappropriate.
• He understands a lot of words. He can get your shoes for you, and even get the “other one” that matches the one you’ve got. He knows which books are which books and can go and get them from the other side of the apartment. He knows where to go when we tell him to get his diaper changed or take a bath or eat dinner.

I think that’s a pretty good update for one night. I’ll try to be a better blogger in the future so I don’t have to do these catchall posts. In the meantime, enjoy this one.