It amazing to me how much kids learn when they are young. Ryan's little sense of humor is developing, his ability to interact with and initiate play with other kids is developing and he is getting smarter every day. He is interested in new things too. My little boy who wouldn't sit and color for 2 minutes 6 months ago is crafting up a storm, asking to color and even asking me to show him how to make letters. He does pretty well too. Drawing circles and triangles. He can write a few letters pretty well. Some capital and some lowercase. Since he has shown so much interest in writing letters and numbers I printed out some great tracing sheets from Jan Brett's website. Which I would highly recommend to mothers with young kids. She has such beautiful drawings and great learning activities. Best of all it's all free! We printed out 0-5 and Ryan did some of each before he got bored and started basically scribbling, but he had fun. There is so much Ryan is doing I think I'll do some bulleted lists to keep this short and sweet. This part is mostly for me and the proud grandparents who care to read the whole list;-)
Ryan can-
-count to 100 with only a little help
-say the sounds of most letters
-figure out what letter lots of words start with
-sound out some small words with help
-make people laugh
-do a forward roll
-do a backward roll off of the little hill
-hang from a bar and pull his feet up to touch it
-almost do a pull up
-walk the balance beam with no help
-say the Lord's Prayer and Psalm 23
-sing the words to all sorts of songs
-hop on one foot
-jump over small (very small) obstacles
-hike about a mile
-swing on and let go of the trapeze bar in gymnastics
Ryan loves to-
-make people laugh
-hug and kiss family, especially Lily and Mommy
-climb anything vertical
-jump on anything horizontal (including beds, floors and anyone who dares take a rest in our living room)
-running (even if it's just in circles- okay, especially if it's just in circles)
-play with cars, Thomas trains and tools
-play pretend (like making his cars talk to each other and making food in his play kitchen)
-help- with laundry, cooking, getting diapers for Lily, just about anything
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He is quite the boy, that is for sure.
One more thing for his list: he can wrap Grandma around his little finger.;)
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