Christmas vacation
January 7, 2010 – 12:32 pm by jennieBeto is back at nursery school today after about 2 and a half weeks of Christmas vacation. This means I have a little bit of time to do things like update his gallery and blog! I’ve uploaded a bunch of pictures of all the fun stuff he got up to over Christmas break. I thought I’d also take a moment to update y’all on what’s new with him developmentally.
Beto’s been talking a lot more recently, saying multiple new words a day. It’s pretty cool and he’s absolutely delighted when he tries to express something and we understand what he’s saying.
He loves books, art projects, music, animals, running laps around the dining room table, throwing and kicking balls, taking all the cushions off the couch to make obstacle courses or cars…man, that boy loves to pretend that he’s driving! Whenever he sees a picture of a vehicle, he’ll point to the driver’s seat and then to himself and say ‘Bo’, which is how he says his name. When I ask him where I’m going to sit, he always points to the passenger seat. He loves to make cars out of cardboard boxes and uses anything vaguely circular as a steering wheel, then tells me to get in the back.
He’s really starting to do a lot of imaginative play. He feeds his baby doll or decides that it’s time to change the diaper on his froggie. His Matchbox ambulance likes to stop each of the other cars at every lap to check their tire pressure. Yesterday he played by himself for 15 minutes, which I think must be a record, as he still really wants Mommy and Daddy to play with him all the time.
When neither of us are sick from all the new nursery school germs, I try to take him outside for a good long play every day. We’ve got a few really nice playgrounds here in Colima now, and he loves to go climbing, sliding and running in circles with other kids. Sometimes we take his tricycle out and he works on mastering that or we just take a long walk through the neighborhood at Beto speed. I always return carrying rocks, flowers, leaves, etc as he really likes to collect things!
All in all…he’s a pretty typical 2 year old. Oh, except he insisted that Luke read a Hemingway short story to him last night, before bed, instead of one of his own picture books. That’s just weird!
