Octopus's Garden

We were listening to The Beatles the other day and that song came on and Isaac was singing along to it. It was so cute! Then he was asking to hear it again, he kept pulling out the CD's and saying, "me hear octopus garden?"
This morning he woke up and was singing it to us.:-)

I think we have a Beatles fan on our hands! ;-)

playing on his own

Lately Isaac has started to play on his own. Setting up his own games and playing them. Today he was setting up little wooden people and bowling with them.
He sometimes sets up several cars or other objects and I can see his thought expanding beyond just single objects. He's usually talking the whole time, but I can't really make out what he is saying. It's so amazing to watch him grow and see how his thought process is developing.

I've also seen a difference in how he is playing with others. We had some friends come over yesterday, Jamie, and her son Xander who is 5 and her daughter Zoe who is just a couple of months younger than Isaac.
As soon as they got here Isaac and Xander started playing and they did the whole time. I have some great pics I took on my phone, but I have no idea how to get them to my blog. I do have them on Facebook, so you could see them there. They are of the three of them playing in a wet sandbox, they are all soaked and covered in sand, and having a BLAST!

His personality is just growing so much and it is such a joy and blessing to be part of it.

Baby Jacoby

So we had a little stress for a while. Last week my regular glucose test came back on the high side (140, nurse said 130 is the highest they like to see), so I had to do the 3 hour fasting test. That's what they call it, but really it's a 13 hour fasting test, as you have to fast for 10 hours and then sit in a waiting room for 3 hours while they test you blood 4 separate times (and a full draw for each, plus a finger prick when you first get there) to see how you break down the sugar solution.
I was so hungry when I got there and just felt miserable. The sugar solution was gross, it was this thick lemon/lime, non-carbonated solution, and super sweet.
But on the plus, the sugar drink kept me from feeling really hungry. It wasn't as bad as I was anticipating, I actually got a chance to read uninterrupted for almost three hours.

And of course the good news is that everything is fine and I do not have gestational diabetes!

So everything can continue as normal, and in around 11 weeks +/- we will have little Jacoby! <3

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.