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2 years 4 months old – December 20, 2016

YEAR 3, MONTH 4
NOV 21 – DEC 20 (2016)

COMMUNICATION
Here are some words said this month (it’s getting to be too many to list):

• “ah yeah”/”eye yeah” (for yes)
• “mama catch” (re: ball)
• “booger” (then he tried to get one out)
• “fresh Goppa” (Goppa = his “formula milk”)
• “condo house” (he says it a lot)
• “okay”
• “go away, Dada” (just once!)
• he repeated back “I love you” (12/15)
• “Santa”
• “scene” (for parts of shows he watches)
• 5-word sentence: “Mama, take trooper head off”
• “rope tow”
• and…his speech articulation is getting very good!

Watching a ski movie -November 21, 2016

COGNITIVE-EMOTIONAL

• he got scared watching “The Polar Express” & pulled me tight and didn’t let me go (12/6)
• he counts up to 10 on his own, no prompts (12/19)
• he told Eric about his “night night show” (dream) about  “fresh powder..crash..boo-boo bear”
• he knows colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, white, black with some errors (i.e. he mixes up green & blue)

Apple Valley Gymnastics – December 12, 2016

ENTERTAINMENT

• playing at Apple Valley Gymnastics (12/17, 12/19); he says “gym..jump..slide”
• he loves watching “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (he calls it “Oompa”), “Elf,” & “Batman” (the original); he loves watching certain scenes over & over (he yells “more!”)
• iPad games, letter writing apps
• in the car he loves bobbing his head to music & he says, “dance song”
• he loves books & his favorites include his Star Wars books (2) and the books in his set, “Amazing Machines: Truckload of Fun (10-Book Set),” by Tony Mitton (especially “Dazzling Diggers”)
• he says “Walla Walla Park” daily even though we haven’t been there since mid-November

THANKSGIVING

• we visited family in Bend, OR (11/23 – 11/27)
• Todd’s great aunt Elaine & great uncle Jeff were there, too
• he loved playing with Legos, cars, battery-operated trains, jumping into pillows & laughing at Eli being silly with a doll in a dump truck
• he was very gentle with Kaiser (cat)
• we walked at Shevlin Park (11/24)
• we went to visit Santa with Todd’s cousins but Todd wouldn’t sit on Santa (11/25)
• we went to open gym at a gymnastics place (11/26)
• dining out: Spork (11/23); Cafe Yumm (11/26); Pacific Pizza & Brew (11/26)
• he said “I need Boones” after we left
• on the way home we stopped at Sharky’s Pizza Shack in Yakima, WA, for a great vegan pizza (11/27)
• on the way home he said “grandma, grandpa, Ashley, Eli” and did kisses in the air
• Ashley sounds like “Ah-side” & Eli sounds like “Ee-die”

Shevlin Park – November 24, 2016

Shevlin Park – November 24, 2016

Ashley & Todd – November 24, 2016

Cousins – November 26, 2016

Todd & Kaiser

SKIING – STEVEN’S PASS

• Eric took Todd to Steven’s Pass (11/29)
• King-5 was filming and Eric & Todd were on the TV news that evening
• Todd said “I ski” & said he was eating “fresh powder”

Eric had the stroller loaded up! – November 29, 2016

SKIIING- MISSION RIDGE

• 12/3, 12/4, 12/10, 12/11, & 12/18
• Eric takes Todd on the rope tow, then we have french fries in the lodge, then Todd plays in the snow or goes down the snow “slide”
• he says “fresh powder” (sounds like “powdoo”)
• he frequently says “Mama, Dada, Todd, ski”
• he started pointing out “dada trees” after I told him about different sizes of trees using the terms “baby tree/mama tree/dada tree”

Hampton Lodge – December 3, 2016

December 4, 2016

Top of the snow “slide” – December 10, 2016

SNOW PLAY AT HOME

• we love living where it snows regularly during Winter 🙂
• he did some skiing at the condo (12/6 & 12/9)
• he told Eric about his dream (he called it “night night show”) & his “crash” in “fresh powder”
• Eric pulled him in the red sled that Grandma got him last year (12/20)

December 6, 2016

December 20, 2016

FOOD NOTES

• he calls his apple slices “apple boats”
• he asks for “ice cream” (non-dairy gelato) at Ice (in Pybus Public Market)

Chompers – November 28, 2016

Eating non-dairy gelato at Ice – 12/17/16

DAY TIME NAPS

• no change from last month!
• he took off his diaper during his nap (because he slept without pants)…and afterward we had to wash his sheets (12/5)

Wiped out after skiing at Steven’s Pass – November 29, 2016

NIGHT TIME SLEEP

• he woke up in the night 4x but he fell back asleep without me needing to do much
  • at 12:45 AM (11/27)
  • at 3:30 AM…barely (11/28)
  • at 1:20 AM…asking for “Goppa” (12/8)
  • at 3:00 AM…asking for “Obiwan” (which means he needs to be covered up with his fuzzy off-white blanket) (12/11)
• we give him water at night; he calls it “Goppa water”
• he said “hand, Mama” (he asked for me to hold his hand through the crib rails) (12/1)
• he started saying “Dada, Mama, Todd, sleep” before bed in his crib (12/15)
• at 4 AM he said “Batman show” (in his sleep, I think) (12/18)
• he started telling me I could “go” at night (instead of staying by his crib until he falls asleep)
• we snuggled on Eric’s bed & Todd called for a group hug (12/19)

November 24, 2016

POTTY TALK

• he poops in the toilet…status quo!
• he pees mostly in his diaper unless we ask him to do a “stand up pee-pee” in his baby potty (he complies most of the time)…then he gets to “dangle” for ~10 minutes
• we’re still waiting for him to *initiate* peeing in his baby potty

Todd loves shopping – December 14, 2016