Lately I like to eat raisin bran for breakfast, because it has raisins in it. So, mostly, I just eat the raisins and ask for more cereal when they are gone. Mom and Dad make me eat the bran part, too, so this morning, after I grudgingly ate the bran, I simply asked for “more raisins.” Mom put some raisins in my bowl and that was fine, but she forgot the milk! So I asked for milk. Mom pulled a cup out of the cabinet and got the milk from the fridge, and I could see where this was going. “NO Mommy, no want it.” She was confused, because I had just asked for milk, so I pointed at my bowl. “Milk in bowl, Mommy.” Duh. So I had raisins with milk on them for the rest of my breakfast. Perfect.
I love when I find things that entertain Preston for hours! Scissors are amazing. And, of course, there are rules for the scissors and Preston knows how to follow them! He can only cut paper and he must be sitting down to do it. No running with scissors. He has been great and knows to drop the scissors if he wants to get up and go somewhere.
I’ve noticed more lately that he is really trying to learn some of the songs that we sing and listen to on a daily basis, and it is adorable! He hums and mumbles along until we get to the part of a song that he knows for example:
“I hum hum hum on the RAILROAD… hum hum hum DAY!”
“I hum hum hum RAILROAD! Mumble mumble AWAY!”
“Mumble hum WHISTLE BLOWIN’ – hum hum MORN” “
“Hum hum mumble SHOUTING – mumble BLOW YOUR HORN”
“Mumble BLOW – Mumble BLOW – Mumble mumble BLOW YOUR HO –O-ORN!(That’s his favorite part)
(Can you guess the song?)
And I catch him singing songs that I don’t know because he learns them at daycare like the clean-up song that goes something like “Clean-up, Clean-Up, Eh-ver-ee-BODY.”
He is also starting to get more specific when he talks and instead of saying “My duckies – My duckies” he says “My rubber duckies” And fuller sentences like “Daddy goes to work – be back soon!
And my favorite is that he has started adding “love you” to things like “By Mommy, Love you, be back soon.” It melts me!