* He continues to play at the sink daily...helping me with the dishes and washing his hands, after he washes his hands I fill up a bowl of water for him and set it in the sink and then give him some spoons and the funnel.
*He's really into coloring right now, I bought some Christmas paper when it was 70% off and the back makes great big coloring pages.
*He plays the harmonica to make Chile "sing"
*When the oven beeps he tells me "hot", he also points to J's coffee in the mornings and says "hot" then goes on to blow (spit) on his coffee.
*One day I told Chile "Out!" in a low growling voice, and he mimicks me to a T now when he sees Chile where she should not be.
*He uses Chile for a stepstool, as she likes to lay in front of the cabinets.
*We go to the mom's room during church and halfway through the message he picked up all the toys, told me "all done" and tried to open the door saying "Daddy-O!" I told him to wait, we were not all done yet and to get a book. When it was over I opened the door and he saw Daddy-O about 100 ft. away through a bunch of people, he began to shout over and over "Daddy-O! Daddy-O! Daddy-O!" and ran down the hall, I have never seen him with such excitement or fervor ;)
*He could eat sauerkraut, shredded parmesan and beets exclusively everynight for dinner.
* He is also really into his colors, saying "meen, lellow, puwpul, boo, ree, orr, yite, ping" my favorite to hear is lellow, but I love that he is always telling me the color of everything.
*He looks at grocery ads with me and points out the numbers he knows, 2, 3, and 8.
*When he is on the potty we sing the itsy bitsy spider, he loves that, but he is convinced that apples and bananas is the next verse. As soon as we are done with "climbed up the spout again" he says "apples?"
*When we are out driving he has some sharp eyes, telling us each time we pass a skidsteer or backhoe, or train.
*He watched parts of "the voyage of the dawn treader with us" and now uses his builders square as a sword on the dog.
* He has added some animals sounds to the normal barnyard vocab including his own rendition of birds "teet, teet" and mouse "eek, eek"
*He now has favorite clothes, including solid green shirt, solid green pants, red pants, a sweatshirt with earth movers, and some pajama bottoms with fire engines on them.
*When he sees a fire engine now he says "ding, ding, cang, cang" (clang,clang) from the fire engine book.
*He has also been calling 2 of his friends by name, a little boy named John he especially likes to play with and frequently comes to me and asks "Yon? Yon?"
*Yesterday morning I heard him playing in his bed and then it was really quiet for a long time, when I opened his door he was talking to his monkey who was in a lineup with all the other animals along the head of his bed. Was too funny not to laugh.
*some other things he likes to do include the high 5 up high, etc. he loves to be fooled but he usually isn't too slow for me :) and he holds up his pointer finger for E.T. phone home, he still asks to be tickled daily, we love to tickle :)
These are some things I've done lately...I finished a scarf for S and one for his friend. J had this great idea when we were at this cabinet facory warehouse bargain place, to take these drawer fronts and make coat hooks out of them with the display knobs we had scored at a hardware going out of business sale. They work great and it's nice to have a nice looking coathook by the entry, in our room and in the guest room, that cost us around $5 total for all
J and S in the skidsteer during one of our good storms.
What else to do with 9 month old puffed rice I found in the pantry? Play with it! It looks like a mess but when you have a four-legged, large-mouthed vacuum continually scouring the floors it's not really a problem :)
