wheeeee

today, panzer put himself down the slide.  and of course, went right back around to do it again.

he also experienced his first hurricane force winds.

i admit i wasn't a fan of this idea at first and made aaron promise to bring him out as soon as he started screaming.  but, of course he loved it.  and it made me laaaaaugh.

hello hello good-bye

today, panzer had his first telephone conversation.  and by conversation, i mean it started with "hello" (and wave) and ended with "bye" (and wave) with some incoherent babbling and a lot of button-pushing at auntie karrie inbetween :)

can we build it?

yes, panzer can.  today, panzer found a forklift, climbed right up into the driver's seat by himself, and honked the horn.  how do little boys immediately identify (and fall in love with) heavy machinery?

ghostbusters

today, panzer rocked out to the ghostbusters theme song ... hands clapping, head banging, and tongue wagging.  he's going to be the hit at skateland in middle school.

bustin' makes me feel good...

OCD

today, panzer became obsessed with washing his hands.  taking a little bit more after daddy!  when there's no water in sight, he will even pretend to pour soap on his hands and rub them together, then mimic washing his hair (usually just spreading food around in there) and his face.

good monkey

today, panzer behaved at mommy's doctor's appointment.  peer pressure is beginning to affect him, if only slightly.  snacks take care of the rest...

bandit

today, panzer came out of nowhere, raced up to aaron, grabbed a big hunk of saucy chicken off his plate, and ran off with it.  your food is not safe around panzer.

apple

today, panzer ate exactly one half of an apple.  the top half.  including the stem and core.  those 16 teeth are serving him well!

harsh and severe discipline

today, panzer's parents failed to teach him a valuable lesson about inside toys vs. outside toys.

practice

today, panzer climbed into the rocking chair and read his monster a story.

pockets

today, panzer discovered his kangaroo pocket. 

i'll know where to look for my keys next time they go missing.  (that's my comb he's digging out right now...)

i would walk 500 miles

today, panzer walked a lap in mommy's mary janes.

uh oh

today, panzer started saying "uh oh" on his own and in appropriate context, like when he drops something.

i am pretty sure this is of biological significance -- one of those things kids learn to do to be so cute that you don't mind that you haven't gotten a good night's sleep in 2 years.

samoa

today, panzer had his first girl scout cookie.

he put it on his finger, then left it on the floor when he discovered grapes on the counter.  good boy P, you can battle all the cute girl scouts later...

poop

today, panzer pooped in the bathtub.  luckily, there was no water in the tub, and he only stepped in one little chunk one time, making for relatively easy clean-up.

and by relatively easy, i am remembering when P was just a few weeks old and i was giving him a bath at home by myself -- back when he had big creamy poos.  in hindsight, i have no idea how i managed to clean up the little filthy infant (screaming once he left the bath water) or appropriately sanitize the little filthy tub by myself.  i don't even know where i set little filthy screaming panzer down after i got him out of the tub o' poo....

at any rate, lesson learned:  no standing up in the tub.

clear your nose

today, panzer let me put the bulb in his nose and suck a booger out.  in fact, it was his idea.

this gives me hope that some day i won't have to fight him to cut his toenails.

stats

today, panzer presented to the pediatrician for his 15 month check-up.  he weighs in at 26 1/2 pounds, is super tall at 33.0 inches long, and is otherwise a perfect cheerio-eating machine. 

teefs

today, panzer had his teeth checked out for the second time.

here, you can see he was more easily distracted by a toothbrush and flashlight at his first visit 6 months ago...

but his teeth look good!  and he has a bunch already -- 15!

banana giants

today, panzer learned to sign "banana" to me.  he apparently thinks about bananas a lot, but not how good they taste or how much he wants one, because he didn't actually eat any of the many bananas i offered to him.  (instead, he ate nothing but gummi worms while cheering on the giants.  superbowl = food holiday.)

none like it hot

today, panzer drank a little cup of hot sauce at the mexican restaurant when no one was looking.  his face turned bright red and he started screaming.

i shoved a finger full of sour cream into his mouth (at aaron's suggestion) and he recovered.  hopefully its uneventful coming out the other end...

can't touch this

panzer knows he is not supposed to touch the (many) remotes.  so today, panzer walked up to the remote in aaron's hand and slapped it.  then he crawled on the couch and laid down next to it, nuzzling it with his head.  i can almost hear him chanting "i'm not touching it, i'm not touching it!"

waft

a:  hey, guess what panzer just did?  he wafted himself.
k:  what!?
a:  yeah, he just farted and then waved his hand behind his butt and wafted it around.
k:  hee hee, why would he do that?
a:  probably because that's what you do when i'm not around.