He also celebrated with his friends at school and then we had a big party that we used mainly as an excuse to hang out with all our friends and to celebrate the first year in our new home, which has gone just great. Leon enjoyed the attention and was a big fan of the birthday cake and cupcakes, which big brother Dari helped decorate.
It was right around his birthday that Leon really started putting words together to express more complex thoughts, often surprising us with the sudden accuracy of his expression. The ones that struck me the most were the three below: very caring, very opinionated, and very self-aware, in that order.
Don't cry, Dari.
Too much banana.
MY purple ball (yeah, somewhere along the way he started learning colors too).
Leon is growing into a a very caring little boy, ready to check on anyone who may express any signs of discomfort, like the man who coughed at the other end of the parking garage one day and Leon asked right away if he was okay ("man okay?"). Similarly, whenever I sneeze, I get the inevitable "bless you Mommy" and I have learned not to act too upset when I stump a toe or step on a Lego block (and we all know how painful THAT is) because Leon gets way too worried about my well being.
Finally, we have made some great progress potty training Leon (and this is early June speaking) but even a month ago Leon was very eager to please us by at least attempting to go. Conversely, he would always praise both mommy and Dari whenever they "succeeded" in using the potty appropriately, saying "good job Mommy or Dari" - too funny!
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