Likes: LETTERS! Paint, play-doh, anything art, dancing and music, cars, playing in the snow, baths, ABC videos on youtube, playing with the dog, preschool, his monkeys, his blanket, his Nana, SuperWhy, "Nee-O" (Finding Nemo),
Dislikes: Waiting for food...when he wants it, he wants it that second, diaper changes, timeouts, using the potty :-(, when mom does not have her undivided attention on him,
Favorite foods: peas, carrots, cheese, crackers, "Tooties" aka Cookies (we also call granola bars "tooties"), Milk, "Smovee" (Smoothie), hot dogs, peanut butter, tacos, canned pear, oranges, waffles, scrambled eggs, yogurt, oatmeal, beans
Foods he dislikes: Deli meat, fish, strawberries, tortillas, hotdishes (except tator tot hotdish or stroganoff)
Development: At 18 months he knew all his letters, and 2.5 years old, he can write all the letters in his name (not in order yet), and other letters as well. He can't open doors yet, but that is on the horizon...we are greatly looking forward to him being able to let the dog out! We haven't tried scissors for awhile, we'll probably start working on this next. He loves jumping, twirling, dancing, running in circles. Last Summer he wasn't quite able to pedal his bike yet, I'm looking forward to trying again this Spring! He has begun to remember things that I say we are going to do; I found this out the hard way when I told him that we would go to the library after church Wednesday evening, but then ended up staying there longer and it was too close to his bedtime...mondo meltdown. He also remembers that the library has wooden letters which are his favorite things to play with. A couple months ago, he started engaging in more dramatic play, such as pretending to feed his monkeys and making eating sounds, or put them "Nu-night". He sleeps from 7:30/8pm-7:30am. He wakes up very rarely, usually due to a bad dream or terror. He is still in his crib because he hasn't tried to crawl out yet...I'm holding on as long as possible on that one. His speech is still behind, but he has come leaps and bounds in the last 6 months. He struggles with putting words together to make sentences and pronunciation. He is more interested in peers, but continues to mostly do parallel play. He
Things I want to remember: As soon as music comes on, he "dances his arms" and begins twirling. He is super cuddly and will randomly come up to hug and/or kiss me. His first 5-word sentence was "I want momma up please" when we were cuddling in bed in the morning and he wanted to be done. He gets super excited to hug his cousin Astrid or the dog and literally shakes and clenches his jaw to try and regulate/contain his excitement right prior to hugging. He sometimes gets shy in public but will make flirting gestures with his eyes and point to his cheeks.
