More isims

Thomas and friends- not unusual in itself, but it's cute because he calls anything with Thomas by the full name. Even his Thomas train is Thomas and friends, as though it was one long name.

Danny lion poop- dandelion poof

Teeny one- anything small is teeny one, not sure where he even picked up the word teeny, we don't use it that I can think of.

little bit- measurement of something small. I put his dinner down and he will say, "This hot?" and I will say not really, and he'll say, "little bit hot"

ies- everything has ies on the end, motorcycies, tracties (tractors), wormies...

I really should do the isim posts during the day when my mind is functioning better, lol.

Frost Farm

We went to Frost Farm yesterday with LEAP. Isaac was loving the little stream the path crosses over in the woods. Funny, last year he wouldn't go near water, I think it will be much different this year...

He was also having fun playing in the field with the other kids. It really amazing to watch him develop. He's always been fascinated by watching older kids play, but he use to just do what they did by himself. So a couple of kids would be running around and he would run around by himself, but now I see him trying to interact with the other kids as they are playing. He doesn't seem to know exactly what to do yet, but I can see the thought and process developing. Luckily most of our friends are unschoolers so their kids seem more use to playing with kids of all ages, and aren't put off by a little two year old wanting to play with them. Plus, Isaac is just so stinkin' cute ;~)

After drying up and changing clothes from the stream, the kids still find some water to play in, lol. Not too much in life is as fascinating as water and the things in it. :~) I can't wait to take Isaac to the beach so he can explore those rocks!

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