These days its hard to take pictures of Theo because he gets too distracted by the camera. Nonetheless, I do manage to capture a moment now and then, and it's easiest to do when he's distracted by his favorite things: vehicles. He often gathers as many of his vehicle toys as he can and lines them up in a big group and plays all sorts of games with them, concentrating with great intensity and stopping for no food or other enticement. The picture to the above is actually a picture of Theo dancing and playing cars at the same time; Theo has become an incredible dancer.
Theo's language is rapidly developing, with multi-word phrases almost the norm. These days we hear phrases like "more cheese stick" and "no, stay, car" (meaning no thanks, mom, I'd rather stay here and play with my cars than have a diaper change right now).
As his concepts develop, he begins to use words to mean more than what we might expect. For instance, he developed the phrase "ten car", to describe things he thought were great: car is his favorite thing, and ten is the highest number he knows, so "ten car" became "this is something fantastic". The other day, I came home with a pizza box. Normally, when Theo sees a pizza box, he excitedly exclaims, "piz!" and follows me into the kitchen. This time, he pointed to the pizza box and said "ten car!". Meaning, of course, yeah, mom, my favorite food! Another recently highlight is "'sup dude". Theo heard me teasing Matt about answering the phone 'sup dude, and started mimicking it. I, of course, have encouraged such a cute phrase whole-heartedly.
Theo just loves to bundle up and go out to play in the new yard, which backs up to protected wetlands. Theo loves to listen for ducks and frogs, watch the stream, and crunch in the leaves. While we're inside we love to watch birds fly from tree to tree and enjoy the view of the mossy woods.
Hello everyone and sorry for the long delay in posts! Matt and I have been busy moving the family to our new home. Time to catch you all up a bit. One of the cutest developments of late is pretending to call Grammy, Papa, Grandma or Pop on the phone. Ring ring, hello!
OMG, Theo got some little plastic dinosaurs as a party favor at Skyeler's birthday party, and he is CRAZY for them. He wants to sit at the bench at the dining room table and "play roar roar" as much as possible. Talk about growing up and becoming a little boy.
Today I took Theo to Skyeler's 3rd birthday party, at one of those Pump-it-up inflatable bounce and slide places. Theo was shy and clingy for the first five or ten minutes while he got his bearings. After that, he was a confident big kid, having so much fun climbing, bouncing and sliding! I was really proud of him. He even climbed up and went down the big slide several times all by himself, without me even having to show him how. Afterwards all the kids sat at a little table and had snacks, and my little guy was just as content as can be. Ready for preschool soon!?!
It was a beautiful, crisp, sunny Halloween morning, so Theo and I took a trip to the zoo. Some of his favorite animals to visit are the ducks, so it was perfect that Byron and Elke offered to lend us their duck costume. We brought Theo over there and got pics of the three kids - Skyeler the robot and Teagan the ladybug, cute as can be. We even got them all three to hold still for a photo for about half a second! Theo did pretty well in the costume and thoroughly enjoyed saying "quack quack" often.
These days its hard to take pictures of Theo because he gets too distracted by the camera. Nonetheless, I do manage to capture a moment now and then, and it's easiest to do when he's distracted by his favorite things: vehicles. He often gathers as many of his vehicle toys as he can and lines them up in a big group and plays all sorts of games with them, concentrating with great intensity and stopping for no food or other enticement. The picture to the above is actually a picture of Theo dancing and playing cars at the same time; Theo has become an incredible dancer.
