2.5 years old!

Favourites

Game: Hide and Seek

Drink: Hot chocolate or chocolate milk

Sport: Soccer or volleyball with a balloon

Food: Hot dogs and grapes

PJ's: Flannel Clifford Pajamas

TV show: Diego

Song: Row, Row, Row your boat

Snack: Jelly beans or M+M's

Activity with mom: Marching around the house OR going for walks to Extra Foods

Activity with dad: Playing `pokes'. Gary pokes him with his fingers. He pretends the `pokes' (his fingers) are gone and Gary finds them behind Kai's ear or in his pocket and pokes him while he is giggling away.

Pretend play activity: Camping, Shopping (he gets a book and pretends to read a grocery list, gets his back pack and says he's off to Extra Foods), Going to work (grabs his back pack and puts daddy's wallet and keys in it)

Developments

Physically:

-can take off his shoes, coat, shirt
-can hop down the stairs (freaks me out...Gary taught him)

-pretty decent at catching balls

Mentally:

-counts to 15

-knows all his capital letters and half of the lower case ones

-can determine what words start with when you make the sound of the letter

-can count to 5 in spanish

-asks a billion questions....most common `Why?'

Socially:

-he generally appears to be a little more passive (ex. if someone wants his toy, he will give it up...as long as they are not younger than him!)

-loves playing with other kids his age

-not shy but needs a good explanation of what is going to happen before we go into a new situation

-really concerned when other kids (or Koen) are crying

(Koen was upset so I put him in the chair so I could get the bjorn on and Kai grabbed his two Bubi's and hopped up in the chair to share with him)

I love this big 35lb guy. He makes me laugh. Every night, he takes off his pj top so when I go in to check on him before bed, I put it back on. He keeps his eyes closed but has the biggest grin on his face because he thinks he such a monkey. I think he is def. getting back to `himself' as the whole transition to being a big brother AND having a terrible flu was a bit rough on him (understandably). It's amazing how much kids understand at this age, you can explain so much to them! Looking forward to what's to come:)