Pennington still hasn't spoken his first word yet but he is communicating with us by using a few words in sign language such as all done, more, dog, thank you and touchdown!!! He has also started to give people "Pennington Kisses" which is really just a gentle head butt.
Pennington continues to excel in the gross motor skills area. The kid as NO FEAR!!! Today he went down a really steep slide head first and face planted into the sawdust. Boy do we have our hands full. At Daddy's soccer game on Sunday Mommy saw him dribble the soccer ball touching his feet six times in a row.
Pennington is also starting to be very interested in how things work. He is entertained for hours trying to vacuum, but things inside a container and take then out, and screw lids on and off.
Pennington continues to LOVE fruit, specially grapes and raspberries. He isn't much of a meat eater so we are constantly trying to find things for him to eat that have protein in them. For breakfast we have been working on using a spoon to eat oatmeal or yogurt. He can feed himself if we put the food on the spoon for him. He is still working on trying to get the food on the spoon himself. Over the last month he started to drink from the straw and then let the liquid spill out of his mouth getting his clothes all wet so we switched to a sippy cup.
Pennington has continued to be challenged by his little sister Piper. We always thought of Pennington as a child that never cries but those tears have started to come since Piper was born. Overall he isn't angry at Piper he is just wants attention. He has started to intentionally hurt himself to get attention. Usually what happens is Pennington accidentally falls over and starts crying, we give him attention by asking him if he is okay, and then he does it again on purpose. We are really trying to give him as much attention as we can but it is hard when Piper is still really young.
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