Tyler's fine motor skills are fully in development. It is fascinating to see the progress, especially having a new baby in the house to remind me of where he was just 18 months ago. While he's still mad about Elmo, Tyler's favorite show to watch these days is the Wiggles because these guys sing and dance, and there's a big giant dog. The Wiggles sing a song that Shawn and I heard for the first time several years ago from our nephew Jordan, who jumped up on our coffee table singing and dancing when the Wiggles started singing "Hot Potato." These guys have a good thing going for the little kids because this same song gets Tyler up and dancing too. On the video, The Wiggles do hand movements for each food: hot potato, cold spaghetti, and mashed bananas. So Tyler has been developing his motor skills to do these same hand movements. Hot potato requires each hand to make a fist, and then you tap your hands on top of each other. A week ago, Tyler couldn't quite get his hands to make the fist and was awkwardly trying to tap them on top of eachother. This week, he has mastered making a fist with at least one hand at a time, and can tap the hands on top of eachother slowly, so slowly that it's not at all to the rhythm of the song. But I bet he'll have it down very soon, considering how many times a day he practices this song!

Dropping him off at daycare this morning, Ms. Jaclyn asked me to help her understand a word he keeps saying to her. She said it sounds like he says "Sisi" but she knows he doesn't have a sister, and that we knew the baby was going to be a boy. Ahh, I know exactly what he's saying (proud mommy that I am). CHILI! Our dog She said that made perfect sense because he always says it when he looks at our family picture on the wall, the one with the three of us and Chili. He also says it when he's stuck in his rut of asking for Mommy and Daddy. Every afternoon, he asks for Mommy and they say I'm at work. So he asks for Daddy and they say he's at work. Next he asks for Sisi and they have been saying "you don't have a sister, you have a brother," so now Tyler probably thinks of Chili as his brother. Ms. Jaclyn and I also talked about how passionate Tyler is about busses. Whether it's a big yellow school bus, or the public transportation, Tyler is always quick to point out a bus that I don't even notice. There is a bus stop across the street from daycare and every morning when the kids are outside, the bus comes and parks at the stop for about 15 minutes. She said Tyler and Carina stand at the fence yelling bus bus bus over and over. Now I know why he occassionally wakes up screaming for the bus in the middle of the night.