I'm hoping this blog will be a place where I can better document our life together--because documenting this wonderful, blessed life that I have has not previously been my strong point. And I also have some topics I'm pretty passionate about, which I might ramble about here sometimes. This post is an update for our friends and family who can't be close to share these moments with us.
When we ride in the car, we often see jet streams. John has been excitedly pointing them out now for a while. Now Luke has joined in the fun. He pointed to the sky this afternoon and said "Jet! Jet!" Last week we saw the Thunderbirds (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force_Thunderbirds) flying by our house in a formation. The boys were so excited.
John lately has been enjoying challenging his body with extreme balancing and twisty moves. He uses the handlebar on his trampoline to hang from and twist around. He hangs upside down and swings from his trapeze bar. It's fun to watch him constantly challenging himself with new positions. Yesterday morning Chris hung a rope with various knots in it from the rafters in the garage. All morning John was working on climbing up it.
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The other thing John does regularly is build obstacle courses. Yesterday, he took all of the dining room chairs, the desk chair, trampoline, two short wooden tables, a hall table and a nightstand and arranged them down the length of the hallway. He and Luke had fun climbing over it all over and over. They also build obstacle courses in the back yard.
John has also in the past two weeks started drawing specific identifiable things. For example, he drew three people laying in a bed, and that's exactly what it looked like. He draws people, houses, suns and animals. This is new for him and has been completely unprompted by me.
Luke currently loves to read Go Dog Go (he asks me to read it multiple times every day) and he loves to push around cars or trucks on his knees. Just in the past two days, Luke has been putting two words together for most thoughts. For example, when he had been saying the object he wanted, now he will say the object and then "want".
Yesterday I went to the eye doctor for the first time in more than 8 years, and I found out I have 20/20 vision!! My glasses broke 3-4 months ago, and I have only felt like I wanted to wear them for driving at night since they broke (I *may* have worn them taped in the middle a few times). Well now I won't be needing them at all! After needing glasses for distance since junior high, this is pretty exciting news for me.
Thanks for sharing! :) Allie loves reading Go, Dog. Go! as well. Thanks for the tip on that one. I love reading about how your kiddos are developing. And I really love the obstacle course. I wish Allie could hang out with your boys!
ReplyDeleteI wish Allie could hang out with John and Luke, too. One day.
DeleteI remember when John asked to read Go Dog Go daily, too. It was right around Age 2. I think all the prepositions and the simple, repetitive language in it is really appealing to children at a certain developmental level. John is less.than.excited to read it every single day at this point, but he still listens. :)