Growing Up....

Dear Conor,

You are growing up!  You just turned 2.25 years old and I can't believe all that you can do.  Your vocabulary and love for learning is amazing...here is where you are at:

* can sing ABCs and can identify individual letters out of order
* can count to fourteen independently and recognize numbers out of order 1-10
* Can sing "Ring-a-round the Rosie" "Twinkle Twinkle" "Rock-a-bye Baby" "ABC"
* You know your colors and have started learning which primary colors make secondary colors.
* You can spell your name, Daddy (Dadddy), and can recognize Mommy, Colin & Hunter when spelt for you.
* You know your address ("I wive on gawwison oaks") thought its not very clear
* You know what the traffic light colors are and what the colors mean
* You have started "reading" books.....you are able to recite them after hearing them or even before
* You know all visible body parts and are starting to understand differences between girls and boys
* You love to play learning games - we have started matching same items and you often bring me two things and ask "same?" and get excited when I see they are the same. 
* You can put a button through a button hole on a felt board
* You have started learning the names of our individual fingers
* You have started identifying the sex of a person when you speak.  "I see HIM" when looking at a male and "I love HER" when talking about a female.

Conorisms:
* Baby Do-Ro has been replaced with Talwin
* Bibits (Mickey) has been replaced with Mickey Mouse
* Bedopedoop is still what you call your dinosaurs but you are now able to say dinosaur when you want to
* ahhhh......is still what you use for the word drink (though you can say water, milk, juice)
* wawa - water
* tames - games
* Hear dat - "do you hear that?"  usually said when you hear an airplane or Colin crying
* I need it - a recent development (one we don't like)

Potty Training
You are a funny little character.  You know when you have gone to the bathroom and instead of saying you did you walk up to Daddy or I and say "no pee" or "no poop" and we instantly know you need to be changed!  You have used the potty several times and sometimes after several hours your diaper is dry but at other times it will be heavily soaked within an hour so its clear you are not quite ready yet!

BIG brother
You continue to be an amazing big brother.  You are the best diaper changing partner there is.  Always ready to grab a diaper, wipes, and the "butt stick" for Mommy or Daddy.  You often try to share your toys with Colin and your ears are always ready to pick up his cry (sometimes before we do).  You love to point him out to people ("dat Talwin" is what you say) and you always involve him in your play in some way, shape or form.  Sometimes you have to be reminded that he is a baby and that you have to be gentle with him and approach him slowly but overall you are great with him.  You always have to kiss him goodnight and you have recently started saying "I love you Talwin" when you go to bed (or I love him).  He is very lucky to have you Conor!

BIG CHANGES
We have signed you up for preschool!  You start this September and we are very excited and nervous.  Its just a few hours a few days a week but we know you are ready to spread your wings just a bit!