August sun brings sunflowers and sweat

Is it August already?  Shosei will be 20 months old in a couple of weeks.  Family members are starting to question whether he can talk or not, but Shosei is no where close to that.  I repeat names of things, such as the fruit he eats, but of course, he is content now on just filling his mouth with the sweet juicy snack.  On one particular day though, our ears were playing tricks on us, and my husband thought Shosei said, 'cherry' after I said it to him. 

It must be true what people say:  You try so hard the first 3 years to get your child to speak, and then the next 10 years to get your child to shut up.  But obviously, this is a selfish parent's wishes, and is not allowing their child to grow at all. Being a parent, let alone, being human is quite the challenge in our own lives.   

Anyways, these days, Shosei still enjoys flipping through books, and sitting on one's lap and being read a book.  He talks in different syllables more often now instead of a boring 'dah, dah, dah'.
He can get extremely crabby and emotional when things don't go his way.  That, I must say, is so similar to how his mom can be.  Obviously, mom still needs to grow up in her own way.

Shosei likes music and shifts his weight from side to side and dances to the music in his own cute way.  Lately, he enjoys the reaction he gets out of his Daddy when Daddy says goodbye to go to work.  Daddy leaves the house, grinning ear to ear, with a wet, sloppy kiss mark on his cheek.

And of course, Shosei can't get enough of touching and playing with things that Mom doesn't want him to get into.  But trying on the bath tub shoes and saying, 'cheese!' was worth a shot on the camera for Mommy.