Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Lots of climbing and imagination

This month both kids have been developing some great talents. #1 is now a superb climber. She can climb up the futon and sit in the window. She also enjoys climbing up the chairs and standing on the table. We are having a hard time finding a safe place for him to place with small toys and have some non-sister playtime. We have resorted to having him play on the diaper changing table which is tall, but not a very big space. He is a pretty good sport about it.

#2 has a great imagination. As a lot of you have heard, he has brought home some friendly and active "shadow dogs". Last week on our way to his first day of preschool he clearly reported "my dogs are coming with me mom". I asked, "Where are they going?", he replied, "In the car, right now. Right there." I have started asking him questions about his dogs and Isaac always has a ready answer.
Q: How many dogs do you have?
A: 5 dogs, (counting on fingers) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Q:What color are your dogs?
A: Green, and blue, and orange, and pink, and yellow, and red. (Then he pointed to each dog and said what color they were)

Q:What are your dogs names?
A: Playdoy. All of them are named Playdoy, and all of their friends are named Playdoy.

Here is my favorite incident with the dogs. I had asked my son where his dogs were, he replied, on the red chair. A few minutes later, Isaac ran over to the green rocking chair and bumped it so it started moving, then he ran back over to the red chair. He then announced, "now they are on the green chair!" It looked like the dogs had jumped from the red chair to the green chair. I was laughing pretty hard, I thought that was pretty clever.

So that is the fun we are experiencing right now.