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Tru has learned how to negotiate. He has inserted “one more time” with an index finger pointed up when he wants another cookie, book read, or whatever he’s focused on at the moment. Where he got this? Again, we aren’t sure. And what’s up with the finger pointing for extra effect? [...]

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Ok, so I’ll come clean. Amy and I occasionally gawk at Tru and wonder where he picks stuff up. For instance, he can count to 10. I don’t know why, since we don’t push the counting thing. But he’ll be sitting in his sandbox counting stuff, or just hanging out in [...]

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The other day Amy was changing Tru’s diaper and Leo-the-cat walked over and stopped by Tru’s head. Tru looked up at Leo’s butt and said, “Leo owie!”, then he touched it. Amy told him that was Leo’s ‘bum’, not an owie.
Then she told him that he (Tru) had a stinky bunger and Tru [...]

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Just a quick pointer that I’ve refreshed Tru’s album–new stuff there.
He’s really been doing good with colors…has blue down pat, as well as green, purple, white and yellow. Pretty good with brown and ignores red. Shapes are coming along–circles are far and away his favorite shape. He picks them out everywhere, and [...]

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My photoshop skills are really lacking, but I guess I’ll get better over time. Scott tried to help me with this picture of Tru jumping off the deck, but I had to go and mess it up a bit further. Anyway, you get the idea!

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Tru learned how to jump off of things this weekend. Actually, he’s been jumping off of things into my arms for a while. This weekend he learned how to jump onto his own feet. I spliced together some footage for your review! The quality isn’t the best, but it’s a small [...]

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