Blowing kisses & other kid tricks

Leon is blowing kisses now.  Quite sporatic when he wants to, but they are definitely there.  He's replaced his open mouth kiss on his hand to a true smacker sound.  It is SO cute!  And he's waving goodbye.  And he will fold his hands when we say we're going to pray now.

I know these sound like baby tricks...  PERFORM!!!  But they mean so much to me. 

He's understanding what we tell him and may or may not do what we ask. 

Like, don't put your hand in that poopy diaper! 

Leon has become an absconder.  I've taken that term from my sister, who had labeled one of her kids as such.  It's quite appropriate.

 absconded  past participle, past tense of ab·scond (Verb)

Verb

1. Leave hurriedly and secretly, typically to avoid detection or arrest.
2. (of someone on bail) Fail to surrender oneself for custody at the appointed time.

Leon fits definition #1.  So far anyway!

He can open our front door and the screen door.  He has miserable depth perception so the front steps totally confound him and he'll fall to his death if we let him go much further.  We lock our door all the time now, much to the dismay of family members who might not have a house key on them...

Last night while I was trying to wind him down for bed time, he lifted my shirt and tickled me on the belly and laughed and laughed!  I wasn't laughing...  (or at least I was trying hard not to)  Then he did raspberries to the pillow for about 5 minutes, wiping the drool off his chin every few seconds.

But those blown kisses that he flings to me make my day!