I'm so curious about the variation in personalities among kids so young, and most of my friends have kids either much older than my LO, or just newborn babies, so I don't have a lot to compare to. What are your little ones like? What are their interests? Dominant personality traits? Favorite things?
Re: What's your LO's personality like at this age?
Rose is an absolute high energy wild child. She is on 11 all day long, except for first thing in the morning when she's sleepy and wants extra long hugs. She's also a jokester, who (as I posted in the sippy cup thread) likes to throw things like her sippy, her shoes, her food, whatever, for a reaction. She also is obsessed with saying uh oh and shrugging elaborately after doing something on purpose, like she's a kid on a sitcom or something. She's book obsessed and loves music (she has a little tambourine, piano and jingle bells and she loves to play along when her dad plays guitar.) She will socialize and play with other kids, but she seems to prefer adults (because she loves attention.)
Rose loves "helping" put groceries and laundry away. She's a complete ham who loves to make fart noises and yell hi at people across the street, and also a rough and tumble baby - obsessed with climbing, jumping, throwing, and getting into the garbage and dog/cat water if she can run there before we get her. She's very happy, opinionated and silly. Her favorite things in the world are water, bananas, blueberries and bites of her dad's breakfast sandwiches. She loves her routine and gets very upset if it's changed for any reason (Dad HAS to take her to school, Mom HAS to put her to bed, if she leaves with dad in the morning while mom's in the apartment that's fine, but if we all leave together and I get in a separate car it's meltdown city.) Oh, and she is completely in love with our dog and terrorizes the cats. Love her to bits.
I feel like I've truly got a mini-me with Evelyn. She is very observant and internalizes everything. She loves being out with people and kids, but she is crazy shy until she feels comfortable (which takes forever.)
Evelyn absolutely loves to dance. It doesn't matter what we're doing, if a beat comes on, she's jamming.
I love watching her little mind work and figure things out. And I can't wait to see her keep developing!
I think the best adjectives for Davey are curious, sweet, and silly. He is bound to figure out how everything works and has a lot of patience for the process. He is dying to turn on a standing lamp in the living room, for example, so he tips it against the couch from the back, runs around to the front and works on the switch/knob. Repeat for zippers, latches, clasps of any kind. I love his tenacity and that he doesn't get frustrated when he can't get it yet. He just keeps trying.
He's such a sweetie pie. He initiates kisses and "rubs noses like the Eskimoses." He shares even his favorite toys and foods with his friends, for whom he has special names and whom he talks about regularly. (We'll see if this continues with his little brother!) He doesn't snuggle a lot during the day but come reading time he will plop himself down on your lap and settle in. He chimes in with the words he knows and makes sure you are reading him his favorite book of the moment.
And like all of our kiddos, I'm sure, he is so silly! He loves to spin in circles ("dancing"), to pretend he's sleeping after a nap so I'll rub his back, to twist himself up in the curtains and to "hide" with his face in the bushes. "Burp" is his favorite punch line and he comes out with it at the funniest times. We also regularly engage in a debate about whether there is pee pee or poo poo in his diaper, which he thinks is hilarious (and therefore so do I). His silliness extends a little too far with the dog sometimes-- strangely, she doesn't have much of a sense of humor for being squished and poked-- and also at meals, shaking milk out of his cup or tossing things onto the floor. And of course he loves to give us heart attacks by standing on the furniture.
All in all he is a little charmer and I can't imagine life without him! I don't know how we got such a special little boy but I'm thankful for him every day.