Silas is Cute!!!!

For those of you who don't know, Silas developed some dark brown patches of various size and form on several different places on his body. Because those dark patches are a symptom of a disease, we had him checked out at a hospital in Kansas City when he was still under a year old.
Since then, they have requested that he have semi-regular check-ups, just to make sure that nothing abnormal starts happening in him. (They have found no reason to believe that he has any disease or illness, but want to keep him monitored.)
Mom took him in for a check-up at our local doctor's office. He was a regular clown!!! Silas has many teachers around here who delight in teaching him cute little tricks, which he picks up really fast!! :)
One thing that he picked up on his own, was how to form your hand into a pistol and then made a boom noise. It is really too cute, he runs around with his hand like a gun and says "gun" over and over again; his version of shooting some one. He even slouches on the floor like a sniper and pretends to shoot. After he mastered that, he discovered that a machine gun noise works better.
When having his check-up yesterday, the Doctor was looking at Silas's tummy and kept pulling his shirt up. Silas did not like him looking at his tummy and tried to keep his shirt down. Finally, in 'desperation', he looked up at the Doctor and gave the Doctor his very best machine gun shot. The doctor thought it was hilarious, especially later observing Silas crawl around on the floor 'shooting'.
Another thing Silas learned is to kiss hands. He has been shaking hands with ease for quite some time, but just recently learned to take the hand in both of his hands and very soberly give the hand a little kiss, then draw back with a huge grin!!
As you might have guessed, we sure do enjoy this little guy. His laugh, his grin and his little antics are so precious-we love him to pieces!!!
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