Tyler and I went on the inaugural bike ride of the 2008 season this morning with some of our friends. We call it "Bike with your Bambino." It was a beautiful morning for a bike ride, as four moms and five kiddos rode the Bear Creek trail. It was really nice to get on my new(ish) road bike and really start figuring out how to ride it. It's so pretty! I may have to take a picture and post it one of these days...it really is pretty! Oh, but wait, this is Tyler's blog, not mine, so I guess I should talk about him a little. ;-)
The little man was just cracking me up pretty much the whole ride. There was a constant flow of chatter from the trailer, a lot of which was not at all comprehensible. He spent a good portion of the ride yelling "WHEEEEE!!!!!" at the top of his lungs as we flew down the trail. With the addition of a "WHOA!" here and there as we would occasionally hit a bump. (By the way, this is also a new favorite word in the car whenever mommy has to hit the brakes a little hard...always nice to have commentary on your driving from a toddler...lol). The end portion of our ride was spent yelling about "BUNNIES!" Now, I don't know if he was talking about his stuffed bunny (whose oh so original name is Bunny, but Tyler usually adds an S on the end) or his bunny crackers, but it was nonstop for a good 3 or 4 miles. Never a dull moment with Tyler along for the ride!
I do have an exciting new development to report...this morning as I was checking my email and a couple of websites, Tyler was sitting next to me eating his cheerios and drinking his milk. The website I was looking at had a banner ad up at the top that had animals in the graphic that changed every so often. As I'm reading the website, all of a sudden, Tyler points to the ad and says "fish." Sure enough, there was a fish (well, actually, I think it might have been a bee, but it did look like a fish!). Then it changed and he points to the ad and says "elephant!" I was so impressed. This was the first time that he has identified and said the name of animals without me prompting him. Pretty cool! He continues to amaze me every day. His word counts are increasing, too. We're now up to almost 50 words, which is what the pediatrician said they like to see by age 2! Now if I could just get the kid to eat something besides a carb...(words Tyler says include waffle, toast, cracker, bunnies--for bunny crackers, cheerios, and oh yeah FRIES... he may be a bit obsessed!)