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Graeme at 28 Months Old
Jan. 18th, 2010 09:55 am1. Despite being hooked up with an Animal Hospital playset for Yule, Graeme is no longer particularly interested in the animal rescue game. His new favorite pastimes are still mostly animal-focused, though. He loves to play, "The Animal Sound Game" where we each take turns making animal sounds and having the other guess what it is. (Only fun if you guess spectacularly wrong a couple times, first, bringing many giggles.) "The Animal Running Game" requires players to pick an animal model from his toy collection and to then run laps around the house with it making appropriate animal sounds and/or motions. I, for one, do not actually know what a giraffe sounds like and my zebras sound suspiciously like donkeys. Also, I've given meerkats a call similar to a ferret dook. *shrugs* Graeme doesn't seem to mind, so long as I have something for each animal he might choose for me to impersonate. The most fun recently was when Graeme insisted I run like a tree which, of course, I did.
2. Graeme's vocabulary is impressive but his pronunciation a little less so. "Snake" sounds like "cake", "square" sounds like "care", and most unfortunately "a fork" sounds like "oh f--k!". He's becoming quite a romantic, though, with comments about things like the "beautiful ocean" and the "blue, blue sky".
3. He's exactly three feet tall and weighs a slim 30 lbs.
4. His favorite food in the world is probably the Z Bars for Children that Clif Bar makes. Behind that, it is much the same foods he was enamored with earlier in life: black beans, corn, peas, rice, pasta, chickpeas, avocado, apple, carrots, bread, grapes, and strawberries.
5. His favorite television shows, at present, are Dora the Explorer and Diego, Blue's Clues and Blue's Room, Sesame Street and Wow Wow Wubbzy. This is unfortunate as *my* favorite children's shows are Jack's Big Music Show and Hip Hop Harry. ;)
6. Graeme is still showing almost no readiness signs for toilet training. For one, he seems to not care one bit if he is in a dirty diaper and still won't admit (or doesn't know?) when his diaper needs changing. If it was up to him, it would never happen.
7. His memory has become pretty impressive. With some prompting, he's able to remember events from past days (and to anticipate future events that I've mentioned). He can tell me what he ate in the past and what he did days ago. (For example, he is still able to relate stories of his visit a few days ago to his Uncle Shaun's house and can recall that he ate crackers and played with Maxx the dog. Pretty impressive.)
8. He can identify all the letters, numbers 1-10 (with some, more limited, ability to count to 20), colors and shapes.
9. I never drilled him on this, but he's taken to saying "Thank you" to everything. If I give him something, he'll say "Thank You". If I offer something that he doesn't want (like food, a diaper change, an early bedtime) he'll say, "No thank you!". Pretty cute.
2. Graeme's vocabulary is impressive but his pronunciation a little less so. "Snake" sounds like "cake", "square" sounds like "care", and most unfortunately "a fork" sounds like "oh f--k!". He's becoming quite a romantic, though, with comments about things like the "beautiful ocean" and the "blue, blue sky".
3. He's exactly three feet tall and weighs a slim 30 lbs.
4. His favorite food in the world is probably the Z Bars for Children that Clif Bar makes. Behind that, it is much the same foods he was enamored with earlier in life: black beans, corn, peas, rice, pasta, chickpeas, avocado, apple, carrots, bread, grapes, and strawberries.
5. His favorite television shows, at present, are Dora the Explorer and Diego, Blue's Clues and Blue's Room, Sesame Street and Wow Wow Wubbzy. This is unfortunate as *my* favorite children's shows are Jack's Big Music Show and Hip Hop Harry. ;)
6. Graeme is still showing almost no readiness signs for toilet training. For one, he seems to not care one bit if he is in a dirty diaper and still won't admit (or doesn't know?) when his diaper needs changing. If it was up to him, it would never happen.
7. His memory has become pretty impressive. With some prompting, he's able to remember events from past days (and to anticipate future events that I've mentioned). He can tell me what he ate in the past and what he did days ago. (For example, he is still able to relate stories of his visit a few days ago to his Uncle Shaun's house and can recall that he ate crackers and played with Maxx the dog. Pretty impressive.)
8. He can identify all the letters, numbers 1-10 (with some, more limited, ability to count to 20), colors and shapes.
9. I never drilled him on this, but he's taken to saying "Thank you" to everything. If I give him something, he'll say "Thank You". If I offer something that he doesn't want (like food, a diaper change, an early bedtime) he'll say, "No thank you!". Pretty cute.
