Silly Boy

Just a few pictures of Cedric that have made me smile. This first one makes me laugh for two reasons, a terrible haircut and his new way of smiling for the camera. The bad haircut in front is completely my fault. I was trimming the front and he moved at just the wrong moment. Then I just had to do my best to even it up. What's eerie is that I have a similar haircut picture of myself at a similar age. He looks like he's growling or snarling in the picture but this is what happened:

Me: "Smile for Mommy Cedric."
C: "OK!" Scrunches eyes and says "CHEESE!"



This one is priceless. This week Cedric learned that he can manually screw in the bolts that keep his gate latched and free himself. About an hour after we've put him to bed we hear little feet on the stairs and a very proud boy exclaiming "Hello Mommy! Hello Daddy!" The second night Ari (our dog) realized that Cedric was not supposed to be out of bed and sat up to growl softly at him - as if to say "Hey little human, you're supposed to be in bed." So the third night, he was told in no uncertain terms that he was to sleep in his room and when I went up to check on him, this is what I found.

Counting

Cedric has been able to count to 10 for a while but I've been behind posting the video. In the video he skips 5, which I swore was because he had some kind of toddler grudge against the number. Zach is prompting him because Cedric is alternately video camera shy or only wants to look at what I've recorded, not actually continue doing whatever activity I'm trying to video. For instance, he's started singing the "ABCs" and its so cute, but I have to be very sneaky to catch it. So far, no luck.

Click here to watch the video of him counting.

These days when he counts to 10, its at the top of his lungs and after 10 he shouts "blastoff!" Here's hoping that "blastoff" won't be permanently wedged between 10 and 11.