Fisher's Phases

Here are some Fisher pics for the grandparents:

Fisher loves to sit on boxes...

And to climb on boxes...(while wearing headbands...more on that later.)

And to climb on couches...

And to climb on beds....He pretty much loves climbing onto anything he possibly can. The problem he encounters is that he is still working on the whole getting back down to the ground thing in a safe manner. He hasn't quite learned that dive bombing off the side of the couch, while fast & efficient, might not be the way to go.

He copies everything we do. This picture was taken while Todd was putting the doors back on the armour. Fisher took the screwdriver, found the screws and imitated Todd perfectly. Lately, during bath time, he will take an empty bottle of baby wash and will pretend to pour some on his skin and will then proceed to rub it on his body. It is pretty funny and has made us more aware of our actions. (Such as biting our nails...he imitated that for the first time about a week ago...between me & Todd the kid doesn't stand a chance of having a full set of nails!)

Fisher likes to put on clothes that happen to be lying around...

And is becoming really handy with silverware. He really likes using the big boy utensils instead of his baby ones.

And as much as I hate to admit it, Fisher loves headbands...yes, it is true. I tend to wear one when I am painting or washing my face and need my hair out of the way. With all of the house projects we have been working on I have been using one more often than normal and I seemed to have awakened some headband loving tendency inside our child...

He spends a few hours a day working in our sweat shop....

Occasionally he will sit down and read a book. (Pictured with Grandma Church while she & Jedd came down for a quick visit on Thursday and Friday this past week.)

And have we mentioned that the kid loves computers??? While other parents can sit their kids down to watch the Backyardigans or Cars or Sesame Street or Veggie Tales Silly Songs when they need 15 minutes to get something done (they don't keep Fisher's attention for longer than 5 seconds)...we plop our kid in the computer seat in front of a blank Word document with Windings on font size 48...then we just pray that he doesn't crash our computer since he is very handy & accurate with the mouse. I swear, if another kid were to see a little mouse squeak by and then pointed it out to Fisher, Fisher would scoff and say "that is not a mouse...where is the scroll button and the left & right click button...and where is the red light underneath...most importantly where is the monitor that is hooked up to the mouse???" For those of you who have seen the Family Guy we sometimes feel like we have a little Stewie on our hands :)

When the computer is locked up he will sit in front of the windows on his box and play with his keyboard & mouse.

Along with wearing Dad's clothes he also has finally discovered BIG shoes. It took him a while but now he is constantly wanting to put on our shoes.

Fisher's skills are really advancing. It is so fun watching him grow up. His favorite puzzle these days is a magnetic fishing one with a little fishing pole. He does very well with picking up the pieces.

And last of all he is finally becoming fairly efficient with the spoon. He's been poking things with a fork for a while now but he couldn't seem to figure out the spoon. The past few days he has been eating cereal & applesauce without spilling that much and actually getting the food into his mouth!