Wow, this one really snuck up on me! October has been a crazy busy month and my dad's, Clayton's pops', birthday is this month...actually the day after Clayton turned 21 months and that is always hard. I know he watches over Clayton and is his special angel, but it is also so hard not to have him here to teach Clayton to play guitar and take him fishing. I know my dad would have been just CRAZY over him!!!!
This past month has been full of fun and learning. He is such an amazing child...so smart, inquisitive, and interested in the world around him. He just soaks it all in, and I love it! He is a busy one, but I wouldn't want him any other way!!!
Here is a look at some of the highlights...there is so much each month at this point, it is hard to keep up with!
Highlights...
*Still head over heels for trucks and cars, I think his love for them grows by the day! He lines them up, makes the sounds they make, and carries them just about everywhere!
*He has also acquired a love and fascination with dinosaurs. He has one that he carries with him everywhere and he growls like a dinosaur.
*We are working on colors...yellow was the first one he learned so now he wants to say everything is yellow!
*He knows that letters are letters because anytime he sees them he says A, A, A...so even though he doesn't know them yet, he identifies that they are letters. Clayton and Daddy work on letters in the bath tub, he has letters that stick on the wall of the tub.
*putting lots of two word phrases together..."help please", "thank you", "out please"
*Loves to play with Gi Gi's (this is what he calls my mom) dog Lilly...and Grandma's dog Gracie
*Loves to "help" mommy and daddy...he will shut the dishwasher door, he loves to dust and vacuum, pull laundry out of the dryer, and picks up his toys (sometimes)
*Loves pumpkins!!! 'tis the season
*Loves to play hide and seek
*Some new foods he likes are...jello, pudding, apples, frosted mini wheats
*He is very adventurous...not scared to try new things...usually jumps right in
*Loves to go to the grocery, he is so good! Being the teacher I am...it really is a great speech lesson! We talk about all the foods we are buying, and he usually gets to open a special snack!
*Loves going on bike rides with Daddy...Scott puts him in the bike trailer and takes him around the neighborhood...he says cycle, cycle, cycle
*Points to the oven and says "hot"...guess we have said that enough that he knows now!
*Still loves bathtime...would splash in there forever if we would let him
*Knock on wood, tubes are still doing their job...no ear infections since they have been put in a little less than two months ago! We had trouble getting him to keep the ear plugs in at first, but now he leaves them in and doesn't mind them at all. We did have to get a different kind. The first set were thick wax and he didn't like those at all, so Dr. Wahle gave us some think silicone plugs that fit just in the opening and he doesn't mind those...he is used to them now, thank goodness because you cannot get water in the ears when they have tubes!!!
*Loves to color, but also likes to eat the crayons, so we have to really watch him with those!
*Still loves to be outside! It's finally getting decent enough out there that we can go out without being too hot!
*Loves the zoo and animals...he knows lots of animals and their sounds now. He isn't big on riding in the stroller anymore, he pretty much walks the whole zoo himself!!!
*We moved his room upstairs and he is doing great. Both babies will be upstairs together. There are two bedrooms up there with a joining bathroom. He cried a little the first nap and bedtime, but now he just climbs right up the stairs and acts like he has slept up there the whole time!
*We made his old bedroom the playroom...he LOVES to play in there!!! He is really great at playing independently.
*We go to the Children's Museum quite a bit, and he is more and more into it everytime we go. He will play for a good 2 hours solid there before being ready to leave. His favorite parts are the rice table, and of course the water room. He also loves the dinosaur section. We plan on getting a membership...it really is a great place to go for a different atmosphere, especially in the winter!
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