Catching Up

With the onset of all of the colds, March has completely blown by me and I'm sitting here wondering how we got so far into April without me even noticing! For the most part the past two weeks have been relatively uneventful. We've been holed up in the house trying to recover from the worst cold ever. Poor Kai was so completely miserable--and as a result, so was I. But we're pretty much over the hump now and things are slowly starting to return to normal.

Kai playing patty cake

The trick of the week for Kai seems to be learning the ending to patty cake. He's always loved doing the clapping and if the whole rhyme were all clapping he would have been more than content. But Sunday night, Kai learned that there was an ending to the rhyme.....one where he could throw both arms out to the side and get mom to laugh and say "throw it in the oven!". Once he realized that, it was all over! Everytime I turn around, he's throwing his arms out to the side with a large and expectant grin. The throwing of the arms has resulted in numerous hits to the face for daddy and many a mess at the high chair as his arms hit the spoon and splash food everywhere. He's so cute!! This morning I tried to turn the arm throwing into a response for "How big is Kai?" or "How much does mommy love Kai?". While he thought it was fun, it wasn't the same as "Throw it in the oven!" So fair warning, if you try to play with Kai you'll be "throwing" a lot of things in the "oven".