21 Months Old!

On July 30th, Canaan turns 21 months old. I thought I wasn't going to do an update, but I just have to! He is just learning by leaps and bounds these past few weeks and I want to brag!

Hair: "He should have a full head by his fourth birthday."-recent comment of Dougle's

New Words: (in the past 2-3 weeks!)
-He counts to ten (but doesn't say one or seven) in English (check out the video below to hear him counting!)
-He says 2,4, 5 and 6 in Russian. We fill in the missing numbers!
-He says, "A, B, C's, F, G." on his own. He walks around the house singing it! He can identify and say the letters: A, B, C, D, E, F, H, K, M, O, P, R, S, T.
-He is making more two word sentences, "Truck, go?" (where did the truck go?) or "New diaper."
-New single words include: pig (pik), snake (cake), hippo (happo), donkey (konkey), duck (guk), barn (marn), blue (boo), yes sir (yesr), yes ma'am (mam), Jesus (in both English and Russian), boat (row), tree (tee), cookie, van (vey), away (ay or awy), block, (bok), stinky (kinky), pancake (ca-cake), shoes (choose), bell (bew), jeans (jees), park (pahk), juice, OK, flower (fo-wr), peas, please (pees- he used to only sign this), thank you (da-doo- he used to only sign this), and a few more I am forgetting! He is even trying to say "Zdrastvootye" which in Russian is the formal hello. He says "ta-tay" or "ta-ta-tey."

Cuteness
Canaan likes to include everyone in everything, even himself. Let me explain. We will say, "Give Daddy high-five" and he will, saying "Daddy!" Then he says, "Mama!" and comes running up to me to give me high five. Then he says, "Nae-Nan" (his name for himself) and with one hand, gives himself a high five on the other hand! It is too funny! He does this with kisses too, giving one to Daddy, one to Mommy and one to himself (he kisses his hand like he will blow a kiss), saying each of our names as he kisses us (and himself)! We've tried to get it on video, but he gets really distracted by the camera and looses focus on whatever he is doing.

The other day I was laying on the couch. He started to pat my tummy, but then it got too hard. I said, "No, Canaan. Be gentle. The baby is in there." He said, "Baby and smiled." A while later, he came up with his tractor and put it on my tummy and said, "Tractor, Baby." I don't know if he was introducing them or just showing the baby his toys. I really don't know how much he understands about the "baby" in Mommy's tummy. But, it is a cute story, none-the-less!

As far as naps go, Canaan is trying to cut back from two a day, to one a day. But, he gets too tired after a few days, and he has to take two naps still sometimes. But some days he isn't tired for 2 naps. So, we just play it by ear. He sleeps a pretty consistent 10-11 hours each night. If he takes two naps, it is about 10 hours, because he goes to bed later; if he takes one nap, it is about 11 hours, because he goes to bed earlier.

Still the Same: He loves to learn, loves to read, loves the playground, loves his trucks and cars, and loves mommy and daddy!

Well, that is all for now. We are heading off to Egypt in a few hours. We will be gone for a week. Keep us in your prayers, that our visa stuff will go smoothly! We love you all!