I was looking for something else yesterday and came across this word document. I remember wanting to write on the blog but having no internet connection so I typed it up in Word and forgot about it. I wrote it back on June 30, 2008.
Ben at almost 26 months
• His favorite color is orange and he can pick it out anywhere. He knows the words for his other colors but can’t always match them up to the right color.
• He counts things but always skips five and there is always six of whatever he is counting. “One, two, three, four, six!” Clap Clap
• He is still using a “wubie” at nap and night time and his favorite one is an orange one and he calls it his “orange ooie”. He goes to bed with 3 – 5 wubies.
• He is lately also into taking his toy trucks to bed with him. 1st it was a four wheel he got from Avery for his birthday and then it was his John Deere dump truck and backhoe I used to decorate his cake. This weekend he found in the basement the bag of Bob the Builder toys I won for him on Ebay and he is just in love with them and is now taking them to bed.
• He still loves books and often takes them to bed and to Tammy’s with him. His favorite one at the moment is Smash Crash and Bob’s Birthday. He also really like the Little Critter books. I just won a set of 52 of them for him on Ebay. He likes Just for You.
• He is still going to daycare full time and seems to like it.
• His favorite food right now is “hambbaburgers”. He likes to go to Rosie’s and every time we drive by he talks about it. He also loves pasta, animal crackers, apple sauce and fruit.
• He is starting to watch a little bit more TV but only Bob the Builder. He can sing part of the song that starts the show. (I can too and the other day I had it stuck in my head!)
• He can sing some and parts of Ring Around the Rosie, Old McDonald, Isty Bitsy Spider, ABCs and Happy Birthday.
• He loves to swing on his swing set and swings on a regular swing now. He likes to switch back and forth between the two swings.
• He loves his new sand box and loves to blow bubbles.
• He’s not too crazy about having his picture taken or being video taped but he loves to watch himself on the video camera! It’s hard to video tape him because all he wants to do is “watch Ben, watch Ben”
• He loves to be outside. He loves puddles and mud and loves to have his dirty feet washed off with the hose.
• He’s wearing a size 5 diaper and still hasn’t shown much interest in trying the potty. But he is starting to tell me when he wants a diaper change.
• He’s wearing size 2T shirts and 24 months or 2T shorts and a 6-7 size sandals. His sneakers are a size 6 but he hasn’t worn them in about a month so they may be getting small.
• One of his favorite toys is still his “Scootie” and he still likes to ride around wearing his two sets of beads.
All of the pictures on this post I took on June 30, 2008, the same day I wrote this.
