Kisses, Erasers, & Shh's Oh My!!

Little Gabryle is a handful! Of course, what 23 month old little child is not a handful? From my personal experience all little 23 month old children are handfuls! I would probably be more concerned if he was not a handful.

One of Gabryle's favorite things to do is give hugs and kisses. When Jerrod leaves for work and the girls head to school, Gabryle makes sure to give them kisses. He makes sure and gets his lips all wet and make sure he is all sloppy for sloppy Gribble kisses (Gabryle's nickname is Gribble. Kylie when Gabryle was born could not say Gabryle, but could say Gribble and it stuck).  When he wants some more drink in his sippy cup he always gives me two kisses, one on one cheek and one on the other. At bedtime, I give him his piggy back ride to his bed, put him in bed, and then he runs to the girls room and gives them each at least 1 kiss, sometimes more, then goes back to bed. He even gives his little stuffed blue puppy dog and his Mario kisses.

Since school started we have kept more pencils around the house so the girls have pencils to do their homework after school. They have been in school for five weeks now, and we have gone through almost 2 packs of pencils, all due to the fact that the majority of them have no eraser. For the longest time I was curious as to why they were disappearing, then I found the cause of the problem. Gabryle has learned you can chew off the top of the erasers. NO!!!! Every time I find a pencil with no eraser, whether its a new pencil or old one, I still show Gabryle and tell him no. He just smiles then goes off and does his own thing.
One of the other things that Gabryle loves to do is tell you "Shh!" You can be sitting down somewhere not saying a word and Gabryle runs up to you, puts his finger up to his mouth and go "SHH!!" He then gets a smile and most of the time runs off and does something else then. Other times he will tell you Shh, and you do it back and you have a shh war going on between the two of you. I have even heard Gabryle go up to the girls when they are arguing and tell them to hush. It's funny too when he does come up to you and tell you to "shh", he has the most serious face sometimes. How he can do it without smiling I will never know.
He definitely does not seem to be scared by many things. Just this morning while we were playing outside a bee started buzzing around him, and Gabryle just bent over to the bee while it was buzzing around his shoe and pinched it. It flew off faster than I have seen a bee fly off from someone. It will be interesting to see how much more his personality will come out as he gets older. If he already tries to get people to laugh now, I bet it will be even better as he grows up. Hopefully this little phase of biting off pencil erasers will end very very soon! I know the girls will be glad when they can pick a pencil and not have to search for an eraser before doing what they planned.

Till Next Time!