He has boundless amounts of energy, and only takes 2 maybe 3 naps a week. It's easier for me to just forgo nap time and put him to bed early, then fight with him to nap for an hour. It's all about picking your battles. He could spend all day outside.
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| Jumping on trampoline at grandma and grandpa's |
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| Ice fishing with daddy |
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| At the ward ice skating activity |
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| Play time at the flooded park |
-three bowls of cereal
-whole cup of fruit/veg (loves carrots and peppers)
-half an apple
-half a cucumber...we're talking big english cucumbers
-two sandwiches
-another snack
He loves pasta and pizza, so those are his big suppers. He also loooooooves smoothies and can drink more than I can.
His loves Tangled, Toy Story, Star Wars, Cars, Planes, Big Hero 6, monster's university... basically anything with sword fights, lightsaber fights etc
He loves to quote movies and will randomly exclaim different lines. Sometimes we'll be watching a movie and I'll hear something he's been saying all week, but I didn't know where it was from until then.
His favourite books are The Bunny Rabbit Show by Sandra Boynton, and Thomas' Snowsuit by Robert Munsch
He picks up on songs easily and will randomly start singing things like "jingle bells" or "Let it go! Let it go!". He also knows primary and nursery rhyme songs. He's learning to sing ABCs, but has known the alphabet for months.
He can count to ten, but usually forgets 7.
He can write the letter I. He was drawing on the whiteboard one day and says "I did an 'I'". So I went over to see and sure enough he had.
He is in underwear all day, for outings and naps (when he decides to take them). He's still learning to be consistent with #2s, but he's getting better, and has gone on his own without cueing so I have hope! One day I was skyping my mum and Isaac went to the bathroom. After a minute he runs out and says "I WENT POO!". That was one of the proudest moments of my mothering life haha.
He is the master of distraction-or thinks he is. His favourite phrases are "close your eyes!" when he doesn't want us to see something. Or whenever we ask him to do something he doesn't want to do "I'm just [insert completely random activity that has nothing to do whatsoever with what we asked him to]."
Big brother moments
-one morning I woke up to Mia chatting away, but ended falling back asleep. 20 minutes later I woke up again, surprised she wasn't screaming her lungs out at me. When I went to check, Isaac had thrown all his blankets and toys in the crib and the two were rolling around in there playing.
-he's quick to give her Pinky bear or ask "What's wrong with you?" if she's upset
-he's also quick in telling her what to do and what she wants "Mia you don't want to go. You want to play with me!". "Mia you don't want to play with [insert toy Isaac wants]. You want [insert toy he doesn't want]"."Mia likes this [movie Isaac wants to watch]. She wants to watch it!"
-one day we set up the tent which is red and yellow. They were both playing in it and Isaac says to Mia "See that's red light. That means stop. See? I'll show ya!"
-another boy tried to take a toy from Mia one day and Isaac yells at him "No you don't take it away from her!" I guess only he's allowed to have toy taking privileges...
He loves to pretend and use his imagination
-things that are swords: dusting wand, vacuum wand (attached to his back in the picture below as per Star Wars), hockey sticks, toilet paper rolls, pencils etc
-things that are guns: banana guard, toy drill, stormtrooper gun
around the house shooting "bad guys". Do we have rules about swords and guns? Yes. Do I need to explain them to you? No. Why? Because I am tired of feeling like I need to justify every little decision I make as a parent, in order to feel accepted and to feel like a good mother to my children. End mini-rant that I could make not so mini, but that is another post for another time.
-he'll hear a noise and whisper "You hear that? Must be monsters! Let's go check it out!" Then he takes my hand and leads me to the monsters-usually under my bed-and then tells me "We gotta get them!" He then dispatches of the monsters in whatever way he sees fit at the time.
-he pretends our overturned kitchen chairs (purposefully overturned to prevent little sister climbing on them) are motorcycles or cars and verbalizes every step of driving them
-he sat down with his Woody and Buzz toy by our water bottles and says to me "they're having sacrament!" (we were just at church that morning). He pretended to give them each a piece of bread and drink of water. I asked if they were being reverent as he says "yep, they are!"
Recent laughs
-We were driving home and Isaac yells all of a sudden "My [boy part]!" I asked him what was wrong with it and he yells "IT'S FALLING OFF!!!". I'm surprised I didn't get into an accident because I burst out laughing so hard.
-We had the missionaries over for dinner, and after I asked Isaac to get ready for a bath since he was covered in food. Two minutes later he comes streaking across the living room in front of the elders butt naked and cackling.
-approved dinners "I like that supper. It's tasty." disapproved dinners "You like that supper. I don't like it. It's not tasty".
-I came home one day and the vacuum was out. I asked why, and Gordon said he vacuumed because he thought it was messy. I had just vacuumed the night before so thought that was exceptionally odd. Isaac upon hearing the conversation cleared it all up by saying "Daddy can't vacuum all the popcorn up!" Guess they had a little spill I wasn't supposed to know about...
I could spend dozens more hours writing stories and blurbs about him. As much as he tries my patience at times with his incredibly headstrong will , he makes my days exciting, spontaneous and full of energy.
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