Brockability Level-Up

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Brock is piling up new abilities at a pretty alarming rate. On the communication front, he can reliably tell you what the snake says if you ask him, or even if he just sees a snake and feels like it. It's not only adorable, it also makes me pretty confident he won't have a lisp until he's seven like his daddy did. He yells, "MA MA MA," when he wants more of something he's eating, but I don't think I'm allowed to count that as words until he stops yelling it completely random times as well. By far his greatest feat of communication was a few days ago when he became quite hungry nearly an hour before dinner. Brock grabbed The Very Hungry Caterpillar and brought it over to me. He waved it in my face as he always does when he wants me to read to him. But this time he would not let me read it. He kept trying to flip pages before I could finish them and grew quite angry at my insistence that we read the book. When I relented, he flipped furiously and quickly to the strawberries page. When I tried to just start there and read the rest of the book, he flipped back to the strawberries and yelled at me. Sure enough we had strawberries in the fridge, and I don't think Brock has ever been happier to eat them, nor I prouder to cut them up for him. Now for some videos...


Here's Brock's supported walking around the couch. He has also just stood up a couple times and remained completely unsupported for a few seconds. He should be doing parkour any day now. 


Here's Brock trying out different ways to put stacking rings in a stool slot. You'll also notice him offer his dad a wicked high five early in the video. This was one of the earlier videos I shot, and I thought it would be some kind of trend. You'll see Brock leaving me hanging in many other videos as I try to replicate the magic. So embarrassing dad. 


Brock loves to stand up tall things. He has a bunch of tiny bowling pins that he sets up. He also loves taking all of the mustard bottles out of the fridge (we have like five bottles, and seriously he only touches the mustard, nothing else) and standing them up on the floor. He also loved this empty carton. 



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