Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Newsletter: December 2010
Elliot - December has been a crazy month here! Most notably we have had more than 33-inches of snow! The snow banks are so high that you can't see over them. You have been fascinated by all the snow and you look pretty cute in your boots and hat and coat and scarf and mittens...though getting your thumb in the right hole is quite challenging.
You love to count and can make it to 100 with help. You always struggle with what comes after the 9's like 29, 39, etc. But with some help you are happy to continue. Frequently as you are trying to go to sleep - you sing the ABC's without missing many.
Christmas has been so fun with you this year! You like to touch the ornaments on the tree though we have told you to do so with one finger. So you touch with one finger but with your other handing guiding you. It is as if you don't trust yourself with just one hand. You like to talk about Santa Claus and you love to look at mangers identifying baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph, etc.
And you love to see Christmas trees.
Movies are becoming enjoyable for you. You love to watch Finding Nemo. And Sesame Street and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse are favorite cartoons too. Music continues to be a love of yours. You frequently ask to have music on and love to dance. We have many dance parties and your moves are getting pretty good.
Some of your favorite sayings right now are up-ah-daisy, anytime you want to get up somewhere or want someone to pick you up, you like to list the things you want to eat i.e. "I like toast," "I like cookies." You like to yell, "WiniBears", "Winiiiiiiiiiiiiifred".
Things I find myself saying to you lately are, "Don't stick your fingers up Wini's nose," "We only talk about peoples penis' at home not in public", "It isn't nice to slap peoples butts," etc...
I find this list grows daily...=)
Love,
Mama
You love to count and can make it to 100 with help. You always struggle with what comes after the 9's like 29, 39, etc. But with some help you are happy to continue. Frequently as you are trying to go to sleep - you sing the ABC's without missing many.
Christmas has been so fun with you this year! You like to touch the ornaments on the tree though we have told you to do so with one finger. So you touch with one finger but with your other handing guiding you. It is as if you don't trust yourself with just one hand. You like to talk about Santa Claus and you love to look at mangers identifying baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph, etc.
And you love to see Christmas trees.
Movies are becoming enjoyable for you. You love to watch Finding Nemo. And Sesame Street and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse are favorite cartoons too. Music continues to be a love of yours. You frequently ask to have music on and love to dance. We have many dance parties and your moves are getting pretty good.
Some of your favorite sayings right now are up-ah-daisy, anytime you want to get up somewhere or want someone to pick you up, you like to list the things you want to eat i.e. "I like toast," "I like cookies." You like to yell, "WiniBears", "Winiiiiiiiiiiiiifred".
Things I find myself saying to you lately are, "Don't stick your fingers up Wini's nose," "We only talk about peoples penis' at home not in public", "It isn't nice to slap peoples butts," etc...
I find this list grows daily...=)
Love,
Mama
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Friday, December 17, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Newsletter: November 2010
Elliot - this month has flown by and we are talking about Thanksgiving already!
You continue to talk so much more every week. It amazes us. You are also voracious for letters and numbers. Counting everything and finding letters everywhere is great fun for you. You finally can count all the way to 10 without missing 6 and 7. And yesterday once you had help getting past 11, you counted all the way to 20! Also you often refer to letter 2 and number A - confusing the categories. No worries - you will get there. And you are pretty good with colors too - no longer guessing.
Your favorite things to play with are play-doh - you ask for it all of the time! Puzzles and trains are popular too.
Eddiot is what you call yourself - I get it "L's" are hard to say. When prompted to say "thank-you", you never say it, instead you say, "welcome". When asked a question like, "where is your water?", you will pause and say, "hmm" and point at your chin while you are thinking. You always look like an old man when you do this. It cracks me up every time!
It snowed this week and you got so mad when we said it was snowing. You said insisted that it was raining. I guess it has been too long since you have seen the flakes fly.
You know to say cheese when someone takes your picture, as evidenced below...
Still no progress on the potty. You sit on it once a day just before bed and we talk about going potty and sing ABC's. You can sing most of them but darnit if you won't go potty. I have a feeling we will be at this a loooong time...sigh.
We are looking forward to traveling to WI next week for Thanksgiving knowing that everyone will be so excited to see you and amazed at how much you have changed.
Happy Turkey Day - you little turkey =)
Love,
Mama
You continue to talk so much more every week. It amazes us. You are also voracious for letters and numbers. Counting everything and finding letters everywhere is great fun for you. You finally can count all the way to 10 without missing 6 and 7. And yesterday once you had help getting past 11, you counted all the way to 20! Also you often refer to letter 2 and number A - confusing the categories. No worries - you will get there. And you are pretty good with colors too - no longer guessing.
Your favorite things to play with are play-doh - you ask for it all of the time! Puzzles and trains are popular too.
Eddiot is what you call yourself - I get it "L's" are hard to say. When prompted to say "thank-you", you never say it, instead you say, "welcome". When asked a question like, "where is your water?", you will pause and say, "hmm" and point at your chin while you are thinking. You always look like an old man when you do this. It cracks me up every time!
It snowed this week and you got so mad when we said it was snowing. You said insisted that it was raining. I guess it has been too long since you have seen the flakes fly.
You know to say cheese when someone takes your picture, as evidenced below...
Still no progress on the potty. You sit on it once a day just before bed and we talk about going potty and sing ABC's. You can sing most of them but darnit if you won't go potty. I have a feeling we will be at this a loooong time...sigh.
We are looking forward to traveling to WI next week for Thanksgiving knowing that everyone will be so excited to see you and amazed at how much you have changed.
Happy Turkey Day - you little turkey =)
Love,
Mama
Monday, November 15, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
Newsletter: October 2010
Elliot - Now that you are two-years-old, I have decided to continue to write you a monthly newsletter however I am going to stop naming your age in months. Image how it will sound at month 38 - who would even know how old that is? Instead I will just label them with the date and continue to document your milestones.
You are talking like crazy, repeating everything we say and putting together two and three-word sentences. Some really fun words you are saying are watey(water) and awesome.
Counting is fun for you and you still often miss numbers six and seven moving five to eight in your mind. Then randomly you will jump to 18!
Another big milestone is that you have begun to climb stairs one at a time instead of two footed steps each. I remember following you up stairs a couple of weeks ago, silently asking myself if you would ever figure that out.
You can name colors though mostly I think you just guess rather than know them yet. You love to play with play-doh and crayons. And you are identifying a lot of letters and are pretty adament about it. If your daddy or I are reading something you interrupt and find a "w".
I think I am going to start a monthly addition to this newsletter calling it, "Things I Never Thought I Would Say." For example, "Elliot, we don't flush blocks down the toliet" or "we don't paint with yogurt" or "we don't color on Wini." I imagine more of these will come and perhaps stick around until you are quite old. Daddy and I are laughing a lot at your antics...so far.
Love,
Mama
You are talking like crazy, repeating everything we say and putting together two and three-word sentences. Some really fun words you are saying are watey(water) and awesome.
Counting is fun for you and you still often miss numbers six and seven moving five to eight in your mind. Then randomly you will jump to 18!
Another big milestone is that you have begun to climb stairs one at a time instead of two footed steps each. I remember following you up stairs a couple of weeks ago, silently asking myself if you would ever figure that out.
You can name colors though mostly I think you just guess rather than know them yet. You love to play with play-doh and crayons. And you are identifying a lot of letters and are pretty adament about it. If your daddy or I are reading something you interrupt and find a "w".
I think I am going to start a monthly addition to this newsletter calling it, "Things I Never Thought I Would Say." For example, "Elliot, we don't flush blocks down the toliet" or "we don't paint with yogurt" or "we don't color on Wini." I imagine more of these will come and perhaps stick around until you are quite old. Daddy and I are laughing a lot at your antics...so far.
Love,
Mama
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