-A couple days ago he totally shocked John and I and he counted to 10 only missing one number....he skipped 8 but when I said "8" after he had skipped it, he corrected himself and said "8, 9, 10". We were shocked because I havent even really been working much with numbers just he has been very interested lately in counting toys and crayons or whatever it is. I will count with him some but he had never put 1-10 together until early this week so that was impressive to me.
-He has completely mastered his colors for a while now and gets them right every time....every color in the rainbow plus brown, black, white and pink.
-I would consider him a great eater which makes me glad that it isn't a struggle to get him to eat healthy. For snack time when I ask him what he wants his typical respone is "fruit". He loves the dole fruit cups...the mixed one or the pineapple. Or he will ask for a banana or "berries" which is what he calls strawberries or he eats yogurt or applesauce which he loves. I guess I just always imagined it would be much harder to get a child to eat fruit but he loves it. He always tells me what he wants which makes is easy and he knows what foods we have. Sometimes he does just pick out cheese and crackers but snack time is always his choice which gives him a little independence.
- Though he is a wonderful fruit eater, veggies have been a different story. I will offer him many different veggies with his dinner meal and that is usually the one food always left there on his plate when he is done eating. He eats all other food groups fine and for the meats he loves chicken and turkey mainly. He loves chicken pot pie and will actually eat the carrots out of it so he will eat carrots some....just he has banned all green stuff. The doctor said it is normal especially at this age and to keep offering it and he may come around one day to try it and that he certainly isn't malnutritioned. She just said to avoid food battles and don't force him to eat it, just offer it to him which is what i did.
- His favorite things to eat seem to be anything with cheese, he loves grilled cheese, mac n cheese (easy mac kind or the gerber brand). And he loves milk! He pretty much only drinks milk or water with occasional orange juice but he prefers milk over juice.
-At the doctor, his measurements were: 35in Height (25%),
33.6 pounds Weight (75-90%),
50 3/4cm. Head Circumference (75%)
-I kind of thought it was funny that he was only 25th percentile for height so he is a little shorter than average but I have had people tell me he is tall for a 2-year old. I think maybe just because he is bigger in weight so it seems like he is big for a 2 year old.
-He is learning his shapes now and knows diamond, square, circle, star, triangle.
-He knows quite a bit of his letters....not sure how many he knows but he will often pick the magnet letter off the fridge and say what it is. I know he knows "A, B, C, D, E, and he knows these letters"H, O, P, S, W, Y, Z because I have heard him hold the magnet and say them but maybe one day I will quiz him to see which other ones he knows. One of his favorite DVD's is the Letter Factory and I think watching that has helped him pick up those letters with the catchy songs.
-I actually feel like we can have some conversations now :) He can put a few words together now and tell me what he wants or tell me about something. Like "i want to go outside" or "where'd batman go?" (he has a batman toy he loves). He is talking so much now I have no idea how many words are actually in his vocabulary which it is a lot of fun now to communicate with him. I am really loving this age!
-Tantrums I think may be behind us now...well the worst of it at least. I am thinking he must have gone through terrible two's a bit early and now that he is talking, the bad fits have reduced to nearly none because he can tell me what it is bothering him. If he is tired and missed a nap, he will certainly be fussy and he still has his moments of crying if something doesnt go his way but it has toned down and not as embarrasing if we are out in public....he will whine a little then move on.
-His sleep is still wonderful. Still takes about a 2 hour nap during the day and sleeps on average 10 hours each night.
-He is still a little copy cat and often repeats what I say. Yesterday I said "I love you baby" to him and he repeated "Love ya baby" to me which made me laugh!
-He loves hugs and will wrap his arm tight around my neck and squish his cheek on my cheek....it is sweet! He got a very loving personality and likes affection!
-We love snuggle time on the couch in the mornings watching cartoons wrapped up in a blanket.
-He loves baths and gets so excited when I say it's bath time. He runs in the bathroom and starts trying to take his pants and diaper off. He gets one every other night and loves to play with his bath toys.
-He is a total outdoors boy and wants to be outside playing more than anything else. Loves running, jumping, climbing, playing at playgrounds, etc.
-He loves reading books. We often go to the library and get new books to read so we dont keep reading the same ones. And he loves storytime.
-His current shoe size is 8 & 1/2 wide.
- Lastly, potty training. We haven't even started so that is all on my part but honestly when I have mentioned the potty he seems a little freaked out and says "no" and doesnt want to go near it. I bought him a little ladder type potty for kids that you put on the big potty so maybe that is intimidating to him and I might try a smaller potty but so far he hasnt want to be put on the potty at all and I dont want to force him because I know he will learn and dont want it to be a negative experience for him so I will probably end up getting a book about potty training and will start it pretty soon.
My big 2 year old :)
