Tidbits

A few new things:

• Asking "Isaac, do you want some milk?" might still get you an enthusiastically polite "Plee!" On the other hand, you might hear a more reserved "Okay." He pronounces the letters separately and distinctly: oh kay. Now he has two affirmatives: yeah and okay.
  

• I know Isaac still likes his milk, because when I was nursing him recently and I asked if he wanted to switch sides, he said, "Yummy!" He puts the accent on the second syllable: yum-MEE. It's nice to be ranked up there with the other things he deems yummy, including cookies, bananas, bread, and pretend soup.
  

• He's known how to say up and down for a while, but this morning he spontaneously stretched his arms to the ceiling for up, and squatted to the ground for down. I had just been bouncing him up and down on the bed as I sung the action rhyme "The Grand Old Duke of York," so that's where he got the idea, but it was still exciting to see him do it by himself.

• Unfortunately, Isaac has been rising earlier lately. He used to regularly sleep until 7:30 a.m., but on most mornings of the last two weeks he's woken up between 6:00 and 7:00 a.m., and I've only succeeded in getting him back to sleep five times. I think one contributing factor may be teeth -- his final one-year molar has just peeped through the gum (nearly two months behind the others), and his first canine (top left) is looking to follow suit. Over the last two weeks his night-time sleep has been mostly fine (including three nights where he technically slept through the night, two 10-hour and one nine-hour stretches), so I can't complain too much.