Anders - the late night show

Myann and Shane are in bed sleeping and we are letting Anders play. He is just having so much fun, how could we possibly put him to bed. Plus he has so much to say and laugh about. He happens to think he is pretty funny. This side of him is overshadowed by Myann and Shane all day. So I love to see him in his own siblingless world for just a few hours. Because he would miss his siblings. He LOVES Shane and Myann. Last week when we dropped Shane off at his classroom, Anders kept running up to Shane and giving him a kiss and a hug. We would get halfway down the hall and then Anders would run back to Shane's classroom and hug and kiss him again. It was pretty sweet and melting the hearts of Shane's teachers watching the display. Anders also loves to console Myann when she cries. Since she is all about the drama these days, Anders is hugging and kissing her many times per day. Really the sweetest boy ever. His vocabulary are tripled in just the past 2 weeks. He knows so many words and repeats about anything I say, at least he will try to say it. He loves to say "I did it!" He is a proud one.

Then there is the matter of his hair. Anders' hair is getting long, quite long and I keep saying that I will get it cut the next time we go for Shane and Myann. Which would be in another 2 weeks or so. But I am rethinking that decision. He has beautiful thick hair with those gorgeous ringlets at the end. I know that when we cut them off, those curls are gone forever, it happened to Shane's and I did not appreciate them long enough. Brian wants his hair cut. Last week Anders brought me Myann's hair stuff and insisted I do his hair. He even tried to spray detangler, comb it and stick a ponytail in his hair. He was so precise and determined, that I had to do it for him. So I put his hair in a ponytail and it was adorable. So, so, so cute. Brian was out of town, that is the only way I pulled it off. Ooops, except I then took him to the mall and took pictures, so daddy found out. The picture is terrible because he would not slow down, but you get the point. So now I am thinking of letting it grow long, as long as we can manage without it getting too messy. And I may just have to put in a few pony tails this summer.



Other feats Anders has discovered this week. Climbing on to the couch with something to assist him. He can use a pillow, toy giraffe, or just about anything that gives him an extra few inches of height. He also learned how to climb into his high chair and does so whenever he wants to eat. Now if only he could learn how to attach the tray to the high chair and get his own food, now that would be helpful.

Oh my goodness and the wrestle mania that goes on in our house nightly. We could be our own pay per view special. The only problem is that Anders does not realize that wrestling is not a sport that all 19 month olds engage in. We started music class together 2 weeks ago. This is a full on toddler music class at a real music school and he is still getting used to it and the fellow classmates are patiently waiting for him to get into the rhythm of the class. Well last week, Anders and another boy his age were chasing each other around the circle of moms. All fine until Anders gave the boy a full on hug and body slammed him to the ground. I mean he grabbed the kid, threw him to the ground and then jumped on top, just to horrify the boy all the more. It was devastating for me to watch and he was smiling and squealing with delight. The boy's grandmother was calm, but equally horrified and quickly tried to console her grandson who was crying with full on huge tears. Obviously he had never been bodyslammed before. I did my mortified apology, trying to act like this was unusual behavior. I guess I may need to approach the right time and place thing with Anders.