Gribble and his games.

Gabryle loves finding out new things. A few weeks ago he figured out how fun it is to take a roll of scotch tape and just keep pulling it out and having this sticky stuff to put onto his toys. I think he is so amused by it due to the girls using it to put pictures up on their walls every now and then, plus I use it when the girls have a really good paper from school up on the fridge. (I know I should use more magnets but they block the paper!)
Today he figured out that it is fun to take some pieces of tape that i gave him to firstly, but together pieces of junk mail I gave him to make one big paper collage. He first positioned the papers to where he wanted them to be then I gave him a few small pieces of tape and he put them on the papers. Not all were on the seams, but he was having fun. Surprisingly also he was able to pull a few of them off without ripping the paper or getting the paper stuck to the tape. This made him so excited!

He then came up to me and tried putting the tape on my arms, and then pulled it off. Needless to say that it didn't feel to great when he pulled it off. It still had quite a bit of the stickiness to it.
After this he decided it was time for us to play our "hi" game.  He crawls up in my lap smiles and says "Hi" in his normal voice. I respond with a smile back and say "hi."Then we repeat this over and over however sometimes we whisper and sometimes we are loud. We'll do this back and forth for a good five minutes or so. Today we had to get waving involved with it also. So along with saying hi, we also got to wave back and forth to each other. He may not talk much, but he sure does know how to make you smile.
He has also gotten to love telling people to "shh." It's to the point now that he puts his finger up to his lips and says "Shh" then grins and sometimes giggles at you for it. If you do it back to him he gets a serious look on his face and tells you "shh" again. Sometimes its "hush" I think. What I love most about him saying it, is that when the girls are arguing he will go up to them and get in the middle of them or at least go up to them and go "SSSHHHH" and then walk off, never breaking a smile. He always usually keeps the straightest face telling him that until he sees me or Jerrod and then smiles and laughs.
Yesterday evening as we played outside, Mackenzie started catching grasshoppers, which to Kylie is just "gross!!" Kenz would catch one and Kylie would walk over to her and then brother ran up to them and slapped at Kenzie's hand which made the grasshopper jump, and it jumped towards Kylie. She ran and screamed as loud as I have ever heard her scream. Of course, this made Gabryle laugh and jump around. So when Kenzie found another grasshopper and Kylie walked towards her Gabryle was back slapping the bug and again Kylie ran screaming. Needless to say this happened a few more times, and Kylie finally figured out to stay away when a grasshopper was in hand.
I can't wait till he gets older to play more with the girls. Who knows what type of bugs and what not he will find to chase Kylie after with. Only time will tell!

Till Next Time!!