aiden's guide

I found this funny "guide" I'd written for my folks when they took care of Aiden for the night when we went "away" for our anniversary in June. So here is a synopsis of Aiden's quirks at 19 months (It's interesting to see how much more he communicates just about six months later):

“Stick – ick – st st st”

- pointing at freezer = wants fish stick – usually two – micro for 30 seconds, then cut up in half inch bites and give him a fork to eat them

- pointing at cabinet to left of sink = wants veggie stick chips – sometimes wants a specific color – if he throws them when you take them out of the chair you have him clean them up and put them in the trash

“aaal-al” – with fingers squiggle under chin

- wants cereal – usually munchies like the jumbo rice krispies or flakes

- at night he may want oatmeal with a little bit of milk

pumping fingers into a fist like he's milking a cow - saying “malk”

- wants some milk in the rockstar straw insulated cup

- likes it nice a cold

“unny” and thumb and finger bouncing up and down

- wants to look out the window to see if there are any bunnies

- will look out the front door as a good distraction or the windows by the couches

“dough” “elmooo”

- wants to play with playdoh in his high chair

- make elmo finger puppets with the molds out of the colors he asks for

“blue” and touching his lips

- wants his blue water bottle for a drink

- he sometimes also wants you to drink from the big red one at the same time

- he will start dumping this all over the floor if you get distracted

“Kaa” or smacks his lips like a fish

- wants some fishy crackers – can put them in snack trap to carry around or on his tray

“Baar”

- wants a fruit bar – which is usually best to eat in his chair because they are sticky

- do not break the bar up in pieces – he wants to hold the whole bar in tact and bite off it – otherwise he may fuss and throw it

“Waa Waaf”

- wants a frozen waffle - we toast them up normally

- he eats them just plain without syrup or anything

“Yo Yo”

- wants some yogurt – try to be sure he has a bib on or a shirt you can change him out of because he will want to feed himself

“Cheese”

- wants a cheese stick – don’t break it up he will take bites from it

- it feels good on his teeth nice and cold

Other words are pretty self explantory or he will point at obvious things.