I'm trying out a new way of posting videos to this site (courtesy of OneTrueMedia) - you can share in the experiment with me by clicking on the little video to the right. If y'all seem to like it, and if I can figure out how to get the videos into the body of the post (instead of having them gradually cluttering up the sidebar as I add more), maybe we'll have a winner.
As you will see if you check out the photo album, Josh has really taken to the new Boo-sized stroller we got him, so he can be Just Like Daddy and push his own little stroller around (and, incidentally, get some practice at big-brothering, but we won't mention our nefarious ulterior motives, right?). He spends most of the day now pushing Boo Elephant around in the stroller, all over the house. He also seems to enjoy dumping the Boo Elephant OUT o
f the stroller, which is something that will probably have to be nipped in the bud fairly quickly, but for now it's relatively harmless. (Boo Elephant doesn't seem to mind.)
Of course, now that he has his own stroller to push, His Boo-ness doesn't seem to have any interest in being pushed like a baby in the big stroller, which makes walks longer than about, oh, twenty yards a bit complicated - he gets distracted very easily, when he's walking under his own power, and makes detours to check out rocks, and leaves, and sticks, and curbs, and puddles, and other irresistable objects that catch his little Boo eye. The solution to this problem, and the only way to avoid a major insurrection among the pigmy natives, seems to be to put both Josh and his little stroller into the big stroller. This, of course, gets a lot of smirks from the roving grandparents who seem to be everywhere whenever one goes out with a baby (they just come out of the woodwork), but hey, You Do What You Have To Do.
A shameless plug for the power of puzzles as teaching tools for toddlers - if you have a kid around 18 months or so, you really should try getting one of those little Melissa & Doug letter puzzles, the ones that come on a wooden board with cutout letters. Josh has been fascinated by these puzzles, starting with the ones that had animals on them, and more recently the alphabet and numbers versions, and in the process of trying to sort out which object goes into which spot on the puzzle, Felicia has managed to teach him all his numbers and letters by naming them as he puts them in place. I wouldn't say he knows his alphabet (he doesn't really know what order they come in yet), but he knows all the letters, and he can sort of count - at least up to two, which is the number of Boo Elephants he has.
He gets a little confused by the whole b-d-p-q combination, since if you turn a puzzle piece upside down or flip it over, you can get any one of these letters out of the same piece... but we're working on that. He also doesn't really know what the letters are for yet, but given that he's starting to find letters everywhere - on his high chair, on the books that we read him, on boxes and packages and things - he's well on his way to grasping the concept that letters make words, and words make stories, and so on. So I'm sure he'll get there, probably sooner than we want him to.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone, and may you and your family still be able to walk away from the table by the time you're done with your turkey dinner.




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