Happy 22 Months to Isaac

At 22 months, Isaac is up to:

Pretty much repeating most of what we say (yikes!);

Actually kind of sort of DRIBBLING a basketball;

Wants to take his basketball with him most places;

Hangs by my side while I do house chores, usually intensely focused on throwing a ball, heading a ball, or kicking a ball;

When not playing with a ball, he is actually sweetly helpful and engaged in whatever it is I'm doing...laundry, taking out the trash, doing the dishes, cooking dinner, etc.  

LOVES his new wagon he gets to ride in with Daddy, up and down the driveway, around our yard, or to the nearby playground.  The meltdowns over not getting to play in the wagon are impressive!

He asks me for massage by going into my massage room in our house, saying "oil, oil mama?" - then he gets my bottle of oil and lays down on the floor, saying "sosh mama, sosh"  At this stage, his "sosh" lasts about 1.5 seconds before he's changed his mind, but I love that he totally gets it and asks for it.  (Be still my LMT heart!)

He can't get enough of Richard Scarry's Cars & Trucks and Things That Go

He continues to be so sweet-spirited and snuggly.  He now knows the word "snuggle" and uses it in ways that melt our hearts more than ever.  

When we come home from (usually) the Y, he likes to "drink tea and look at bugs" - this means I put water in a tiny tupperware container (that's his "tea") and we sit on our porch together with our "tea" and look at the bugs that like to congregate on one corner of our house.  We count the bugs and he just points at them and spouts off any numbers that come to his mind.  It's adorable.  

Today we (Isaac and Mama) were the only ones at the playground on a very rainy day, all decked out in our rain gear (thank you, Juneau).  We slid down the wet slide one time and then for about a half hour we just scooped and dumped muddy sand in the sandbox, while he held his basketball, and at some point our conversation turned to "big pile horsey poopie....BIIIIG POOPIE" (all caps notes a much louder and deeper toddler voice, you know, really from the gut!)  

We are so in love with our boy!