Rye is enjoying finding things that are the "same" or a "match." We were reading Go Dog, Go! and upon seeing the convertibles the dogs were driving in the story, he said, "Same?" and he dashed off. He returned with a blue plastic car in the same style as the one in the illustration. "Yes! The dog is driving a car! He is driving a red car, Rye, and this one is a blue car!"
He disappeared again. And came back with a red convertible. "Same?" Yes, Rye. Same.
Favorite phrases: "Big kids," "Try some?" "pop-ups" (finger puppets), "There it is!" "Nice job!" "Eeed it?" (Read it? Which also means: Tell me the story about it?), "Gotcha!" ** And I remembered three more! "Sure!" "Funny!' and "Silly!"
Some new words: "Trader Joe's," "sip-pops," (flip flops), "pine tree," "bumblebee" ("Bzzzzzz"), "Aunt Marnat" (Margaret), "Beedle" (Volkswagon Beetle), "antique cars," "sewing machine."
Rye has been singing along, repeating the words right as we say them, including his lullaby at night. He has been presenting sentences (without articles) that seem at first listen to be in code. Some examples: "Bimp see-pee hi-day cheece," (The blimp is sleeping; it's hiding behind the trees), "Poop potty" (Either: I pooped in the potty, or I want to poop in the potty), "Sit down."
He also offered a real sentence a couple of weeks ago! "Mommy has orange."
He ate some beans one dinner and volunteered, "Tasty!"
And when we were making graham crackers in the kitchen, Rye told Mommy, "Nice job!"
Standing up in the bed over Mommy, he announced: "Tall!"
He does not like a lot of wind. When he sees it blowing around or it blows in his face, he says, "Too much."
He's starting to get some digraphs, especially with "steam" coming off of the dinner pots on the stove. He recognizes the lowercase and uppercase letter E.
He's still confused about the pronoun "you." Because every time we talk about "you," ... well, it's him. A few weeks ago, he flung open the shower curtain with a grin, and pointed to himself and said, "YOU." I opened my mouth to explain, but realized I couldn't probably get through it before the hot water ran out.
This week, I had him in the backpack, and he could see both of us in the mirror. "Who do you see, Rye?" I asked. "YOU," he said. And I thought this was great, since Daddy had said he was getting better on the pronouns. "Who else do you see?" I asked. "MOMMY," he said, pointing at my reflection. Ah, well....
Rye can count to six! He does this very quickly. It goes like this, pretty much every time: "One, Two, SIX!" He seems to understand the concept of "two," and frequently counts to two.
We have been working on toileting with Rye. A couple of weeks ago, he had two successes in one day. Daddy said, "Rye! I understand you pooped in the potty!" Rye shook his head, and made the distinction clear: "TWO." He said. Twice, man, twice. Get it straight.
He often is able to follow multi-step directions, such as: Rye, pick that up (1) and take it into your room (2) and put it on the shelf (3) and come back (4). I admit, sometimes step 3 gets a little lost in the shuffle, particularly if he is distracted by something interesting while in the room.
Sometimes he tries to share his food with us or with other kids. Toys sometimes, too. But he's not cool with other kids coming over and taking his stuff when he's not ready. He'll hoard it all together before letting one item free.
Rye is crazy about the Goodyear Blimp, which very occasionally flies over our neighborhood (We pointed it out to him of course, and now he wants to see it every day. Insert V-8 forehead smack here.) and some nights it is a struggle to get him to go to sleep without seeing it.
He is learning how to use his hands and feet with pushing, kicking, hitting, and shoving items away. All of which he thinks is hilarious. This is part of the autonomy he is building and the process of learning the power of his actions.
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