, I am about 9 days late posting a 22 month post about Canaan. This seems to be the way I've been posting things recently...a bit tardy! Oh well. Is being pregnant a good excuse?? :)New Words: There are many. I can't list them all, but here are a few: play (pay), stack (tak), see, cookies, off, on, there, here (these 2 sound almost the same: ear/ere), sit, big, small (mall), shower (wower), milk (bok), monkey (onkey), frog (og), bird, over, under, away, potatoes (tatoes), coin, heart (arch), dog, too, towel, and dry.
New Phrases: He is starting to put words together and talk in sentences or semi-sentences more and more each day. His longest little phrase is about 5 words: "A blue choo-choo there too!" He has started saying lots of short phrases:
"sit ball"
"up stair truck" (when moving his trucks up and down things)
"play trucks/cars" (I want to or can I play with my trucks and cars)
"a new, Yeah!" (when he is requesting another song)
"See Canaan" (when he wants to look in the mirror)
"here go" (here it goes)
"choo-choo on truck"
"stinky diaper"
"a new diaper momma"
"more cars here"
"all over" (he said this today when the music ended
"3 'O's' truck" (three O's in the truck)
"mama, catch" (he says this a lot when throwing me a ball or when he wants me to catch him at the bottom of a big slide)
New Concepts
He has learned big/small. He successfully can identify which things are big/small about 90-95% of the time! He has learned off and on and will tell us when things are off/on. He knows the difference between a fan being off and on, and when a truck is off or on a book, etc. Being his Mommy, I am so impressed! Canaan also has picked up on the concept of "too." He is always saying such and such too, when there is more than one thing. He has also started to pick up other prepositions, like over/under and he definitely knows what push means. We are working on pull. He also loves to use the words here/there. They sound really similar, so I can't always tell if he uses them correctly all the time. But he is always pointing and saying "there" when he is talking about things at a distance. We continue to work on colors, but I feel he just must not be ready yet. He calls everything "blue." I think it is his new favorite word!!
New Feats
Canaan is full of new stuff. I just can't remember it all right now. However, he is starting to feed himself more and more. If the soup is thick enough, he can eat it by himself. He eats oatmeal by himself too. And he cleans out his yogurt containers pretty well now. He is getting so big!
As far as large motor skills, he is throwing and kicking well. We are still working on catching. Small motor skills are developing well too. He plays with some uncooked kidney beans and has started stacking coins. He has also taken up watercoloring. When I try to get him to color with crayons, he just wants to hold all of them in his hand or line them up in a row!
Well, that's all for now folks. I hope to post another blog soon about our recent exploints and my pregnancy growth. Hope you all are doing well!!
5 comments:
The holding all the crayons or lining them up made me laugh. He is such an organizer. Don't expect him to be that way when he grows up! Mom
Oh! and I love the new headliner. That is a good photo!
Mom
How neat! Loved reading this all. Lucy, you do such a good job keeping us up-to-date on Canaan! He's growing up so fast and I can't wait to be there and enjoy all the new adventures with you guys! :) Also- like the new picture at the top as well! :)
as with everyone else, love the new header or "blogtopper" as i'm trying to get it mainstreamed as being referred to. anyway, just a warning on colors, our little friend katie is a couple weeks older than canaan, she knows her colors and has for some time, i thought. . ugh, alani is behind (i mean, not literally "slow" but just i'm not teaching her what i should) until one sunday morning when katie told the bible class teacher. . .no i NEED the PINK one. . . then i was kind of glad alani didn't know her colors and was happy with whatever ducky she got :) he'll probably know orange v. blue by the time he's in high school, for now, be happy that he's not too particular about what color everything is. . . the lining things up is very funny. alani does not do that!!!! so it's definitely a canaan thing.
Well, I don't know if we are all bias or if he is just plain amazing! Either way.. Aunts and Uncles are proud all over the globe!
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