He loves to smell flowers. He hears me say "mmm," so he says it even more. He will, if you let him, try to wade through the flowerbed to smell every single one, tramping the already-smelt as he goes. He will also smell any picture of a flower and say "mmm!" And leaves, and occasionally even the grass. Also, he loves to tear pieces off our chive plant and eat them.
The nap thing is working out better now. Every few days he gets so tired he needs two. Yesterday morning he fell asleep on my lap at 10:30, so that was a two-nap day (and it gave me renewed hope that he will sleep at least some of the time on the plane flying back). He's also hit a new level, quite suddenly, of being able to play alone. He's actually letting me type this right now. Plus, he's suddenly making three-word sentences every day: Soap where it? Daddy where go? Cereal want please. And he can follow directions like "carry this book to daddy" or "put the socks in the closet." And he has four new teeth. And he's suddenly able to work all the shapes in his shape sorter, though not every time.
Also, he's suddenly become a boy. He still loves animals, especially crocodiles and monkeys. But he also loves cars, and trains, and planes, and boats. And trucks, now that one went by today and honked its horn. He also loves to do anything that makes a loud noise, and he likes pounding with a hammer. He's also interested in babies now, though, so I might see if he enjoys a baby doll when we get back to balance out the heavy machinery.
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One day, when he is tall enough to wear a shoulder harness, and if he still loves airplanes, I will take him flying.
Every day I took Jonathan (and later, Jessie) to the park near our home. While there, we met Danica and Donna (child and mother, respectively). Danica was born on December 25 and Jonathan was born on December 31st. Donna and her husband had the same anniversary as we did. We became friends. Donna and I wanted to socialize our children to develop broad interests. We came up with the idea that the children would switch toys. Danica would have Jonathan's carpenter's bench (plastic screwdriver, plastic hammer and bolts, etc.) She could also take one or two of the Brio train cars, a few of the matchbox cars and a tractor. Jonathan would have Danica's doll, some doll clothes, a doll buggy, some doll dishes, etc. You get the picture. Well, the experiment failed. NEITHER child would use the other child's toy(s). We could never get them interested. It raised an interesting question for us, though. Was it because the toys WERE NOT INTERESTING to the particular child? Shape, color, texture. Or, was it because the children were not attracted to toys MEANT for the opposite sex? We could not tell. Jonathan did have a stuffed bear and a Raggedy Andy doll that he liked to hold sometimes. He slept with the bear. We also did not want Jonathan "shooting" things with guns. When he was 14 months old, he began to "shoot" us with his spoon (I suppose he learned the concept from DAYCARE, after his nanny and BEFORE preschool?) In any event, we finally bought him a toy gun so we could teach him gun safety.
If he's not interested, that's fine. I'm certainly not going to force him to play with toys he doesn't like. I'll offer and he'll decide. He likes babies, so he might like playing with a "baby," but he can certainly have all the planes and trucks and hammers he wants too.
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