The Daily Hailey

So often I post about how I’m so proud of Dekker. Hopefully no one gets bored with that. I know I don’t! As I was writing yesterday’s post about Dekker’s new accomplishment, I remembered a few other recent developments that I am sooo proud of! The world should know how awesome Dekker is, if they don’t already.

I first want to add onto yesterday’s post about his struggles with eating. Because we had to go slow, and because no one wants to throw up, Dekker eats slowly and intentionally. He will eat one Cheerio or piece of peach at a time. If I don’t realize that  he still has food in his mouth and I offer him more in a spoon, he doesn’t open his mouth until he’s finished his current bite. Or if I give him food to eat from his own hand, he takes it and holds it until he’s done. No rush. I love that he has such self-control.

Also recently, Dekker has started sharing! Just once in a while, but he’ll crawl up to me with one of those stacking cup toys (the green one, because it’s the best) and climb up on me, and either drop the toy in my lap like a puppy, or hold it out for me to have! Same idea with his crackers. Amidst his toys is a Tupperware container of Cheerios and those star crackers. He likes to shake it and occasionally eat from it. Lately, while he’s playing, he’ll bring it over to me and put it on my lap and wait. Little boy wants a snack! I’m just loving the newfound communication!

Kisses!!! Dekker won’t often give kisses. I know some kids looove giving kisses, but he doesn’t seem to have the attention span for it. He’s very busy looking everywhere else. Why would he look at me if he knows I’m there, right? However, yesterday we were playing in the basement and I asked for a kiss and made the kissing sound with my lips. He barreled towards me, hurdling toys, climber up to me and opened his big mouth, looking for a kiss. So he does know! I LOVE his kisses!!!

Something I’m really excited about is his new game. He figured it out all by himself, we never played until he wanted to!! SO the setting was again, in the basement. You know how you let your kid do their own thing until they might get into trouble, and then you go get them and bring them back? Well, Dekker was wandering around in the basement and was fine until I saw him going for the stairs. I called him back, to which he giggled and looked back at me. I said something like “Do I have to come get you?” and he started laughing like crazy. I got up and started walking towards him. He started laughing like crazy and madly crawling in the other direction. I was chasing him! I immediately took on the role of the creepy “I’m gonna getcha” guy and followed him at a snail’s pace. It was hilarious, actually. He got laughing so hard that he couldn’t keep crawling, and just kept falling over. It was probably as much for me as it was for him 😀 We had a blast, and we’ve played that a lot since.

One last thing. While Dekker seems pretty mild-mannered, it would appear that he has a flair for the dramatic! I went to get him from his room the other day, and I peaked in first, just to see how awake he was. He stays so quiet for so long, its hard to know sometimes. Anyway, he was in the corner of his crib, sitting up, playing with the snaps on his sleeper. I sat and watched for a few minutes. And then out of the blue, He threw his hands above his head, heaved a big sigh, and flopped over on his side. It took everything inside me not to burst our laughing. He lay there quietly for maybe twenty seconds before pushing himself back up, and getting back to his snaps. What a card!

I love Deks. For everyone else who does, hopefully you enjoyed this post almost as much as I enjoy the new things he’s doing.