toddlers - the second year
Concepts
Logan and Forest are starting to get into what I would call communication concepts. Although I’m sure there is specific word for it, I just have no clue what it’s called so I’m saying “concepts.” Such as up and down. Logan is all about showing that he understands this as he pushes a toy under [...]
Communication Advances
The boys have begun the transfer of learning. Forest is starting to pick up colors and Logan is starting to get some letters. But it’s irregular and still in the very early stages. On the other hand, Forest knows almost the entire alphabet now and Logan has added “purple” to his color [...]
Butterflies
On several occasions this summer I’ve had the opportunity to witness a most magical exchange. The boys playing with a butterfly. Or maybe the butterfly is playing with them. Yes, it’s more like the butterfly is playing with them. It amazes me how often a butterfly who is innocently passing through [...]
Art with Toddlers
If you haven’t tried Crayola’s “Color Wonder” products with your toddlers yet, I highly recommend them! We’ve used the finger paints and the markers with huge success. For some reason, Logan is not a fan of coloring with crayons, he wants to draw. So we use the Crayola sidewalk chalk and sidewalk [...]
Ball Pit!
One of my favorite things as a kid was playing in the ball pit at places like Chuck-E-Cheese and Showbiz Pizza, so when I saw a bag of 100 colored balls at Wal-Mart, I had to buy it to turn one of the portable cribs into a ball pit. The boys loved it too!
I think [...]
Tid Bits
Logan knows these colors: blue, red, green, yellow, pink and white. He knows orange but calls it “gune”, it’s consistent so I consider it known. He also knows grey, black and brown but sometimes gets those confused. He’s starting to try and figure out the letters thing since brother is so [...]
Wow!
Logan loves his new vocabulary of exclamation words. “Wow!”, “uh oh!”, “Big!” He says them all with such cuteness that I find myself trying to create situations to get him to say them. He’s starting to put words together. Drink, Mommas. Car, red. Truck, big. It’s really exciting [...]
Family Photos
A couple new family photos. Although I have to admit that it’s hard for me to call them “family photos” when Dusty isn’t included. Because he really is such an important part of our family. One of these days we’ll have to get pictures with all five of us.
From family
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Seeing the world from up high
Last year we bought a child carrier that would be appropriate for using while hiking and camping. Unfortunately we didn’t put it to much use until about a month ago when we decided to start taking early morning walks on the green belts around town. The boys like to walk some, run some, [...]
Almost 21 months
Well, it’s finally happened. They are taking on more and more “toddler behavior” every day.
The boys are living on fruit, crackers, yogurt and cheese. Every now and again they’ll eat a bite of peanut butter, a few bites of chicken nuggets, a couple bites of hot dog. But mostly, they are on [...]
