Where does the time go?

Ral had his hair cut almost a month ago, and I am just now blogging about it! Things get busy. I'll try to blog more often.

He was GREAT for his first haircut. We were worried he would pitch a fit, but he sat in my lap like a big boy and never cried or fussed! The girl that cut it did a great job. She layered the back, so it looks like he has more curl than before! The front and top was where the mess was. A month later, the mess is almost back again! I guess he has fast growing hair!

Raleigh is getting bigger and cuter all the time! He says PLEASE almost all the time he wants something. We are now working on Thank You, and he is even beginning to say that unprompted as well! This is a HUGE deal to us b/c when you asked Ral to say please a month ago, he screamed his guts out and backed away from you. A few minutes later you would probably get a PLEASE....but it had to be on HIS terms:)

2 weeks ago he finally said Love YOu. He said it to daddy first. Mike does a sign language thing with his hands when saying I love you to Ral. He's done it since he was born. That day I was sitting on the bed with Ral when Mike was leaving. Mike told him I love you. I told Ral to say I love you. He pointed to daddy, the way daddy points to him, and said Wuh Wooo. He then looked at his finger pointed and said "Get!" He tells the dog to Get and points at him, so I guess he thought that if you point, you say Get!

What a beautiful sound from my sweet boy, hearing him say Wuh Woo. At his grandparents one day he told Grandma and Grandpa that the loved them. Grandpa said love you too. Now when he leaves he tells Grandma Wuh Wooo and looks at Grandpa and says with the same voice, Tooo Tooo (for Love you too).

His vocabulary has absolutely exploded in the 2 months I wrote down all his words. I wouldnt be able to list them all now!

When I am here he says Hey or Hi to me 40,000 times I think. He will come up every so often and look at me and say Hi Ma or Hi Mommy or Hey.

Ral is a true mama's boy. I can't go far without him screaming his guts out for me. Sometimes a simple trip to the kitchen, where he can see me will elicit that response.

I need to enjoy this time more b/c I know that it will be gone before I know it.

What a sweet little boy I have.

What a beautiful boy! 

First haircut! 

Sleep

Sleep had been a struggle for Ral...and for us...since pretty much Day 1. I am happy to report that for right now he is sleeping in his crib through the night! Yeah!!!

Ral does something kind of strange at lunch time. He gets in his highchair. Doesn't eat. Goes to sleep.

My mom in law told me about him doing this at her house. In fact, one day he kept yelling Eat, Eat, Eat not long after he had finished his morning snack. So, she put him in the chair and gave him some good food.

Within 3 minutes, he was asleep!

He didnt want to eat. He wanted to get up there and go to sleep but the poor guy doesnt know how to express all that yet:-)

You're safe!

Last night Ral was doing a Kamikaze run. He ran full speed at me screaming. We tried to teach him to run and yell CHARGE! In our telling him to run, that is all he heard and would run full force through the hall screaming. RUN!!!!! (Or Ru in Ral language) Occasionally he would fall on his stomach, almost like he was running the bases. Mike and I would yell SAFE! Afterwards, he would get up.

He must like being SAFE b/c he proceeded to run a few feet, then fall down. He would stay on the ground until we said SAFE!

He then went back later to running full speed ahead and yelling to the top of his lungs.

That is, until he didn't make it to the door and ran full force into the wall.

Poor baby. He has a big goose egg on his head from it. Mike says that b/c his head is so big, its more like an ostrich egg instead of a goose egg!

Eat Eat Eat!!!

Last night I asked Raleigh if he wanted supper. He just stared at me. Then I asked him if he wanted to eat. He proceeded to stomp around going EAT, EAT, EAT!! YEAH!!!
Here is the rest of our conversation....written in Ral's pronounciation.

Do you want some beans?

YEAH. Beeee.

Do you want some corn?

YEAH. Cor

Do you want some rice?

YEAH. I.

Do you want some chicken?

YEAH. Chick.

He pauses and looks at me and says
Bock Bock!!!!