Update on the boys
Where oh where to begin?! In the coming days I plan to do some posts about our recent travels to LA and Alaska. With pictures, lots and lots of pictures! In the mean time, I’ve been wanting to sit down and write about the amazing accomplishments and personalities of the boys.
Forest is our little “contrary.” If I am trying to change his diaper, he says he wants Daddy to change it. If Daddy isn’t there, he says he wants Logan to do it. Anyone but me. If I want him to change into PJs, he won’t want to do it. Even the “you do it yourself” big boy ploy doesn’t always work. He is extremely independent, not wanting anyone to do anything for him. He wants to take the cap off the milk and the toothpaste tube. He wants to help pour the milk and the cereal. When it’s time to go to the park, he doesn’t want to go to the park. Who would have ever thought I’d be struggling to get the boys into the car to go to a park?!
I’ve been working hard on helping the boys learn some important phrases: “Please”, “thank you”, “your welcome”, “excuse me”. I can’t begin to express how adorable and sweet it is when they say these words. We are also working on trying to get them to stop saying “I want” all the time and learn to say “I would like” or “can I please”, etc. We are also working on helping the boys learn to say feminine pronouns instead of calling everyone “he”. Logan really fights me about it while ironically Forest quickly tries to do it correctly. This is one area where Logan shows his contrary side. Any time I correct him regarding the use of a word, pronunciation, etc, he will refuse to say it correctly and insists that his way is the right way. It’s hysterical some of the stuff he says and it always ends in the use of his made up word “dobo!” So the conversation would go something like this:
Logan, “He is walking his dog.”
Me, “That’s a woman, she is walking her dog.”
Logan, “NO! I said HE is walking the dog.”
Me, “I understand but that’s a woman and we say she and her.”
Logan, “NO! I said DOBO!”
I loose it laughing every time.
Singing! The boys have started that sweet child thing of making up songs and singing all the time, whenever and where ever. Once again, it’s one of those things that makes my heart burst with happiness when I hear them humming or singing some song all their own. Or that they now love to listen to kids music and try to sing the words, even when it’s a brand new song.
I am constantly amazed at how the boys learn so much just from interacting with the world. No need for having special learning times about specific topics. No need for worksheets or special DVDs. They just learn. They learn songs and nursery rhymes because we read them in books. They are learning their numbers and alphabet because we use them, point to them, talk about them, oh yeah, and read books. They absorb and remember every tiny detail for further reference. Even when I think they aren’t paying attention, they show a few hours or days later that they most certainly were paying attention.
This age is such a balance of contradictions for me. I am exhausted beyond belief and the toddler behavior leaves me feeling like I’m going insane some days. And yet when they are sweet, they are the sweetest, most amazing beauty that was ever created. These two little people are such neat personalities that are unfolding and revealing more and more with each passing day. Days that go by too quickly.
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