An Ari post

Yesterday we all went over to Auntie Lois and Uncle Mike's to keep her company during her surgery recovery.  This mostly involved us bringing over ice cream and pies, watching the kids play, and talking about everything under the sun.

One of the highlights was watching John introduce our kids to his new dune buggy.  Xander rode in it for about 4 seconds then got scared.  But Ari's made of sterner stuff - he's always the first to try something new.

 Not sure what he thinks as John starts up the engine.

 Wow, you're so cool, you're reversing!

 WEEEEE!

 Holding on tightly, but not scared at all.  (John helped him put on his seat belt!)

 Taking off.

 On the way back from the woodpile.

 Climbing out.

 So proud of himself that he did it all on his own.

Right after he got off, he climbed around to the driver's seat!  Look at that smile as he turns the steering wheel and pretends to drive.  John is incredible with Ari; he obligingly got into the passenger seat and showed him how everything worked.

Getting down for the last time.  Go Ari!

Tomorrow is his last day in the infant/young toddler class.  He's been spending half days for about a month in the older toddler classroom, and he's so ready to move on.  Here are last week's pictures from school:

 Playing cymbals during music time

Dancing with his amazing teacher Jenn.  As much as I know Ari will thrive one class up, I'm sorry he's leaving my fav teacher at that school.

Let's see, what other updates?  Physically, he's right on target: running, falling, climbing, trying to jump and copy Xander, etc.  Word-wise, he's improving in leaps and bounds.  Besides the basic "mama, dada, [X]an-duh, cats' names, yes, no" he's also said his version of "train, water, please, food" and a bunch of other things I can't remember right now.  It's a combination of consonants, vowels, grunts, and pointing, but he always gets the message across.   I think when he finally does speak, it'll be pretty clear.

And I think that's about it... bedtime approaches.  Lilah tov!