Jango can almost sit up on his own! He is so close to doing it when someone helps him get up. He stayed up when Grandma went to say goodbye to her son and his girlfriend and her baby boy. Grandma took pictures, but she wasn’t home so I could look at them. He talks a lot more, and he loves to follow his older brother around.
Cinco has learned many new words, some thanks to me and his daddy, and some thanks to my sister, brother, or mother. He now knows these words as parts of the body: nose, ears, eyes, mouth, teeth, feet, toes, hands, fingers, thumb, knees, butt (he never says it, but I know he understands where it is when I tell him to sit on his butt), hair, and tongue. I think he also knows head and shoulders, thanks to the game we used to play based on that song, but he never says them anymore. I taught him “square” and “circle”, which he remembered almost a week later, and he now knows “tree” and “flower”. He is also almost three feet tall already. He is going to be tall like his daddy. He loves to go outside and look at everything. One of these days we should take him and Jango camping so they can both enjoy the great outdoors, as well as fishing so the boys can learn how to do it and it would mean a lot to me if this happens because my dad wanted to take them fishing, but didn’t get to. Cinco also likes the dog that the Flores grandparents have. He loves the hammock they have in their backyard, too.
Both children seem to have gotten some new personality traits, like Cinco seems to whine a little more than he used to, and, until recently, Jango didn’t want to crawl to anything to get what he wanted. We will have to work on Cinco and the whining and crying when he really doesn’t need to. And they both still need to learn more about sharing their toys, or taking each others toys while the other sibling is still playing with it. We shall see how this goes. These things will take time, and time seems to be a constant throughout our lives as of late. But they are happy, healthy, and seem to enjoy where they are at now.
