Isaac-isims

Isaac's sweet colorful vocabulary:
This will be an ongoing list...

Words:
Rock bits- rockets
boody- Buddha
spun pants- sponge bob
bider- spider
hoppies- grass hopper
wormies- worms
munty- monkey (which is both cats, even though one is named squeaky)
hel-topter- helicopter

Sayings:
Oh hi _____ (mama, papa, Deanie,)
Go out side and get worms
Bye friends, see you soon friends
Me go work now (as he gets his back pack and my keys and drives in his Flintstone car)
Me see baby in belly (as he looks in my belly button)


There will be more to come....

Thank you, sorry, please

We have never taught Isaac to say any of those words. Our thinking is that he will develop gratitude and empathy a lot better if it's not forced on him. Not to mention the whole having to say please before being giving something just makes my skin crawl. Could you imagine asking someone for something and they said, "what's the magic word?" How degrading is that?

Anyway, he has started saying all of those all on his own. A few times I thought I heard him say thank you, which made me pause, but then I just started saying, "your welcome" back. Then I noticed please, not usually on the first asking, but if I don't respond right away or try to redirect him to something else (think, "Please mama, more candy!" lol). Now he says sorry all the time, for everything. If you trip him by accident he will say sorry to you. It's so sweet the way he says it, "oh, sorry mama".

I find it so interesting that he pick these words up at the same time on his own. It's just really cool to see him developing like this.

What a cute little girl...

Grrrr... I know he has long hair, I realize most little boys do not, but Isaac looks like a boy, we dress him very boyishly. Still, no matter what, everytime we go out I hear at least once, usually several times, "Oh what a sweet little girl you have..."

So here are some pics of Isaac's hair...

His crazy parts in the back, and beautiful flip at the bottom

Sam and I ask Isaac regularly if he likes his long hair, and he says, "Yes, Iss have long hair" We show him that mama has long hair and papa has short hair, and he will again say he (Iss) has long hair, so I think he understands what we are saying and asking him. He did cut his bangs the other day. Just a little :~) He had some kids scissors and said he was going to cut his hair and Sam asked me if I thought they would work, and I said, "No, they're just kids scissors, they'll probably just bend his hair..." Wrong, lol. But the way he did it, it actually flows quite nicely with the rest of his hair as you can see in the pic above.

Isaac's got wormies

Isaac has developed a new passion in life...worms. Every morning he wakes up and with in a few minutes he is asking to, "Go outside, get worms?" He loves them! The dog has a blanket that is on the ground which makes for prime worm finding. At first most of the worms didn't make it back to the ground (well not alive anyway), but now we are trying to work with Isaac about letting them back into the ground to help the garden.

I should also add that this is an all day thing, he finds some worms, he holds them, then I put them out in the garden and then he wants to find more worms and on it goes ;~)

Alpaca tour

Our unschooling group (cuke) group did a tour of alpaca farm...

The kids running in the driveway, I don't have any pics of Isaac and the pacas cause he slept the whole ride up and then was very grumpy and uninterested in anything to do with them. I wish he hadn't slept cause I think he would have really liked giving them "kisses" (You just stand at the fence and they will come to you and press their noses on you)

At Jamie's after for lunch and play, Isaac and Zoe using the force...

And then playing a duet...so sweet

Counting

Isaac has been counting a lot lately. he counts everything, his fingers things he sees, everything.
Right now he's numbers go in this order, 1 2 3 9 6 4 always in that order. Yesterday and today he has started to throw 11 in there after 4.
It's so neat to hear him count all on his own, I've never pushed him or tried to get him to do it, he just wants to.

Just letting him learn on his own as he goes. Sometimes I ask him if he wants me to count with him and he usually says, "yes". And he waits and listens to the order of my numbers. It's really neat to know that he's learning this because he wants to, not because I'm trying to get him learn it.

Dinosaur egg

Sam found a dinosaur egg at Micheal's that you put in water and it hatches over a few days. Isaac loved this, it was very exciting to check on it first thing in the morning and through out the day. Of course it's tough to be patient when you see a little dinosaur peeking out at you.

I have to say for the dollar it was, this was a great little toy. The dinosaur is actually quite sturdy. We did this experiment a while ago and this little dino is still around and in one piece.