What Isaac's doing now
*I hope you don't tire of hearing "what's that?", because that's all he has to say now. Even towards things one knows he knows the names of: "what's that?" I've read in books that one should direct the question back at him, and we try this, but it only results in a drawn-out game of "what's that?" ping-pong. For some reason, I am able to tolerate this, but I think poor Dada is going nuts.
*Late last week he gracefully stepped down the four steps from our porch to the walkway all by himself. Not that I will allow him to do this often, but it's a start.
*He can count to five by himself, and can sometimes even count 5 individual objects. He has also, on occasion, told us how many fingers we are holding up. More often than not, though, he gets caught up in the fascination of counting to three and tries to tell me I have three eyes or three feet. His counting prowess is entirely due to Dada, who teaches him new numbers in pairs each week and is currently working on six and seven. We think he got 1-2-3 down from walking around with us -- he knows that, if he is holding a hand from each of us and he counts to three, we'll swing him up in the air.
*He is fascinated with naming colors. We know he can distinguish blue, yellow, and purple in particular, but, in the vein of "what's that?" insists on calling all colors blue, probably because he knows we'll tell him what the color really is.
*His very favorite book now is Dig!, given to him by his friend Jen Horwath when he was one month old. It is in our repertoire now to read it every night. This is not a terribly short book, but he will sit through the whole thing because it has pictures of a backhoe on every page. The truck/tractor obsession grows.
*Late last week he gracefully stepped down the four steps from our porch to the walkway all by himself. Not that I will allow him to do this often, but it's a start.
*He can count to five by himself, and can sometimes even count 5 individual objects. He has also, on occasion, told us how many fingers we are holding up. More often than not, though, he gets caught up in the fascination of counting to three and tries to tell me I have three eyes or three feet. His counting prowess is entirely due to Dada, who teaches him new numbers in pairs each week and is currently working on six and seven. We think he got 1-2-3 down from walking around with us -- he knows that, if he is holding a hand from each of us and he counts to three, we'll swing him up in the air.
*He is fascinated with naming colors. We know he can distinguish blue, yellow, and purple in particular, but, in the vein of "what's that?" insists on calling all colors blue, probably because he knows we'll tell him what the color really is.
*His very favorite book now is Dig!, given to him by his friend Jen Horwath when he was one month old. It is in our repertoire now to read it every night. This is not a terribly short book, but he will sit through the whole thing because it has pictures of a backhoe on every page. The truck/tractor obsession grows.
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