Gus is very tall and has a big head according to percentile charts. He has green hazel eyes and what tiny bits of hair he has (though it is, it seems, "coming in") is a bright orange tangerine. He has a variation in his right zygomaticus major muscle (dimple). He has a large and hilarious toddler vocabulary of words, signs, and sound effects--focused mainly on animals. He is obsessed with dogs and finds them everywhere (at the Seattle Art Museum recently, at an exhibit about artists who inspired the impressionists, Gus was looking at a large, busy, pointillist painting. Suddenly, he became excited and pointed to a blur in the lower right-hand corner and said "woof!" Amongst a 3'x4' busy painting that focused on people in an expansive outdoor setting, he found the painter's afterthought--eight painted dots representing, roughly, a dog). His favorite activities are what we are doing--he loves to sweep the floors, walk the dog (and stuffed animals on leashes), brush his teeth and comb his hair, sit next to us while we read and read a book of his own, help in the kitchen by stirring and dumping, "play chess" by moving around the pieces, carefully, on the board. He is a loving baby who is gentle with the dog, still loves nursing, and likes nothing more than to see and be held by our friends. Best year and a third ever!
