Sharing and high 5's

Today, with me and Aho both home, we spent some quality time with our little guy. We've been trying to teach him little things here and there, but today he actually caught on to some new skills. It all started this morning while Aho and I were eating milk and cookies (yes, we're all about a wholesome breakfast). Ola came rushing over once he realized we had some type of food, and not wanting him to feel left out, Aho got him one of his baby crackers. Ola loves his crackers, but was still trying to sneak a cookie. So Aho decided the only thing to do was make the cracker seem better than the cookie. "Can you share with Daddy?" (Daddy takes a bite of Ola's cracker) "Mmmmm! Thank you!" This happened about three times. Then, on time number four, Aho didn't have to take a bite of the cracker...Ola reached up and gave it to him. So we tried again. "Yay! Good boy." And again. "Wow! You're sharing!!"
So we thought...let mom try. If he'll share with Daddy, he'll share with Mommy. Yeah...apparently, even though mommy gives him all the milk and food and snacks that he wants, he can't spare a bite of cracker for her. No, no, I'm not bitter. Just because it took twice as long for him to share with his mother. Eventually, he gave in though, and even mom got a few bites. We then noticed that he was eating a lot faster and trying to shove large pieces of the cracker into his mouth. I guess he figured if he got rid of it fast enough he wouldn't have to share anymore. Well, just because he learned how to share doesn't necessarily mean he'll want to.

Later this afternoon, Aho was trying to distract him from his own grumpiness and asked Ola to give him a high five. I helped him out a couple times and then he had it down. And this time, he did it for both of us, no preference. So I told Aho he had to get it on video.

We were also working on standing up without holding onto anything. He was doing pretty good, but no pictures since we both wanted to make sure he didn't fall down too hard. He's been knocking himself around a little too much lately and we don't want that precious brain damaged.
It's amazing though, how fast kids can pick up on things and it was really fun watching him learn. Now if only we could get him to sign. That would actually be a skill I could put to use.