Jonah is a boy who loves his bracelets. A couple of months ago, we found him in his carseat wearing "links" as bracelets. He started putting them on in the carseat and taking them off when he got out. Then he would keep them on and wear them around wherever we were. Then he started wearing them around the house. He napped in them a couple of times, but I nixed that because they were leaving deep indentations on his wrists. He wore them every day to Vacation Bible School, he wears them to the grocery store, the pool, everywhere. I believe that his record is wearing 16 at once (and I think 11 of them were on one arm). He actually seems to be getting away from this a little bit in the last couple of days, but it has certainly been an amusing fixation.
He still likes to build towers with his blocks. When he cannot make them any taller on his own, he "asks" us to pick him up so that he can continue building. He also enjoys soft things. He has several stuffed animals and soft puppets. He loves to wear the puppets on his hand. It's very cute when Jonah snuggles with his soft animals. He smushes them up against his chest or face and gets a happy look on his face. Sometimes, if one of them is on the floor, he will just plop down and lay his face on it.
Jonah is a little bit obsessed with the moon right now. He likes to read books that have pictures of the moon in them and gets very exited when we get to those pages. He also likes the real moon, but doesn't see it as often because he is usually asleep by the time the moon is visible. Although we saw it during the day yesterday and he recognized it. It amazes me that he knows it's the moon whether it is full or just a crescent.
I feel like Jonah is on the cusp of speaking a lot more words. He has been making a few more animal noises and some different sounds. I think he has been taking everything in for so long and is about ready to start spitting that knowledge back out.
Jonah has continued to sleep reasonably well since we Ferberized him. He typically screams at some point in the middle of the night, but we don't go into his room and it usually only lasts a minute or two. Most days he will go down easily for a nap around 1:00 and sleep for an hour and a half. I think that this better sleep is probably contributing to the fairly good mood he has been in for the past few weeks. He still has his moments of whining and clingy and being difficult. But overall, he's a pretty happy toddler.
I have actually been thinking that he's getting a little less excited about the moon over the last couple days. He still points to it in books, but it's not always as urgent. He now knows that the picture of the cow jumping over the moon that hangs in his room is the same as the picture in the book. He also points to the bunny ("child in bed") in Goodnight Moon, because I pointed it out once, as well as the fireplace, fireplace tools, basket of firewood, balloon string, windows with stars, and spoon (in the bowl full of mush). He likes to look for the mouse on every page. And he spends some time on the cover, pointing to each letter in the title and having me spell out the words. So I think in addition to being about ready to talk, he's also on the verge of alphabet learning.
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