One of my favorite things to see is his memory of books that we have read. He knows a ton of books by just looking at the cover (cats, gladys, goldbug, llama, cookie), and he'll randomly bust out something from the book and it always cracks me up. For example, We have a fish book where the fish bonks into a pearl because he thinks it's his friend, but it's really his reflection. One day, he saw the book and said "CLONK," in a super loud voice, which is what the fish says. Another time that made me laugh was when he saw a Sandra Boynton book and said "shimmy" in the cutest voice.. there's a line in the book that says "shimmy shimmy shake in your very own style."
He's totally obsessed with the moon right now. He also loves the book "Papa Get the Moon for me." Because he gets up early, we normally go outside in the dark and look for the moon. One day we were looking at the moon and in a high pitched voice he said "papa?" It was the sweetest thing. When the moon stays visible during the day, he'll always find it and will randomly shout "moooooon" which sounds exactly like the way he says balloon so I have to figure out which one he sees.
It is a battle for the favorite toy on a daily basis. Digger or "Dit" vs. Bus. He almost always has one of them in his hand and will carry it everywhere.
He loves to cook with me and always wants to sit on the counter when I am finishing up. Even if i'm trying to finish something up quickly he'll hang on my legs, or try to climb up the cabinet doors begging "COOK COOK." He thinks olive oil belongs in everything and will shout "oil oil" while holding a measuring spoon. He also loves to dump in spices. Sometimes cooking is a little challenging, like yesterday when I filled up his cup with lemon peel to dump in and he flung it everywhere.
He's super observant and notices way more than I realize. Today he pulled out my starbucks card out of my wallet, pointed to the logo and said "drink." I don't go there that much do I?? He's also obsessed with the handicap logo and always walks right up to it and says "man." He loves walking over speed bumps, and can actually balance along the whole thing while practically running. He thinks that the white parking lot lines are also bumps.
We went to the pumpkin patch this week and I told him we were going to pick pumpkins. Anytime he sees pumpkins anywhere he shouts "PATCH!" Then he'll go up to the stem and say "pick."
One of his favorite things to do that he made up all by himself is to take one of his cars over to the toy house and drive it up and down the bumps on time going "mountains mountains."
It's scary how much he has started to mimic us. Sometimes when he finds a certain toy he thinks is cool he'll get really enthusiastic and go "oh WOW! WOW! WOW!" One time I hit your head as I was putting you in your car seat. I said "Oh sorry! I bonked you!" Now you will randomly start saying "sorry bonk sorry bonk" over and over.
He still loves my phone and love to listen to ring tones. He'll start waving his arm around to tell me he really wants to listen to music.
He loves to cuddle up on the couch to read books and will always reach up and say "blankie." He loves to be all cozy.
Not a super recent development, but one of our favorite things he does is when he toots, he'll look at us with a big grin and go "I TOOT!" In a really high pitched voice.
Counting, letters, colors, and numbers are coming really easily to him. I usually count when we're going up the stairs and yesterday he started counting all on his own. He started by saying one (still sounds like no so I get confused that he's actually counting), two, then he lets me continue, but this time he randomly counted six when I got to it. A couple times now he has pulled out blocks and correctly named their color. One day it was orange, another day blue. He can always recognize the letter "O" and the number "7 & 2" He's getting really good at puzzles and can almost always put back all of our Melissa and Doug puzzles by himself.
This week he's started to say "This is a ...." It's so amazing to watch his language come together.
I swear all of this was just this week.. constant amazing changes. Thank you God for giving us a little learner of a boy.
1 comment:
wow that is all I can say. What an amazing way to spend your day, watching your precious son grow and learn right before your eyes.
I would love to cuddle and read a book with a blankie....He really knows what is the best.
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