all about beck

I was thinking that I haven't written much about what Beck is up to lately and wanted to give a little update... maybe more for my sake of recording it than for everyone else's sake.  :)

Most of the stuff he is doing lately revolves around things he's saying, as the talking has increased quite a bit.  One thing I'm always amazed at is the randomness of his memory.  He'll remember one little thing we said to him one time, yet probably forget something we say all the time!  And his thought process is so funny... jumping from one thing to the next - cars, to candy, to singing a song, to talking about something he did yesterday.  Kids are oh so interesting.

a few other things he's been doing as of late:

• playing his favorite activities - pushing around any type of tractor or motorized vehicle, golf (which is more of watching dad play golf), "mowing" (pushing anything across the yard or even inside), going fast (running around), and shooting guns (nerf of course!)
• talking about his favorite movie Cars... which is a treat he gets to watch at his aunt Sheli's
• starting to sing the ABC's, Jesus Loves Me, and Twinkle, Twinkle
• saying he wants something by saying "yeah, uh-huh", for example, today in the car he wanted my chapstick, so he kept saying "chapstick, yeah, uh-huh"
• getting woken up by mom a little earlier than preferred on work mornings, to which he responds "more sleep" and snuggles up on his pillow again.  quite adorable :)
• asking for c-a-n-d-y the minute he wakes up in the morning (not an everyday occurrence, but it happens often enough!)
• saying he wants a sister when asked about the baby
• using lots of 3 word phrases
• agreeing to go on the "big boy potty" but not really wanting to go
• sleeping in!  instead of his usual 7-7:30 rise, it's become more like 8-8:30... at least for now :)
• asking to have things, whether it be a toy in the store or a truck in his book, he's developed a preference for the toys he likes that communicates by simply saying "have" in a voice of desperation at the item of choice. sometimes he'll even make it a "have please", in which case I believe he thinks he has a pretty likely chance of receiving his item of desire.

and of course some recent pics:

at the zoo in AZ with the Beer family.  plenty of girl time for Beck... which he didn't seem to mind and only kissed one of them :)

playing football with dad before it was freezing outside

sleeping in the car just like his mamma - mouth wide open :)

tasting a Vitamix sample at Costco... it tasted much better than it looks!