May 22nd, 2006
Comprehension
It is still amazing to me how much Colin understands in such a short time. Last night he was playing in the living room and I asked Chuck what we should have for dinner - it didn’t even seem like Colin was paying attention and he yells “Pizza.” Chuck and I just both looked at each other like “did you just hear that?” - we tend to do that at least once a day now.
Yesterday we got Colin a sand box and as we were filling it outside (well Chuck was carrying the 50 lb sand bags over) Colin kept saying “More sand. More sand?” It was so clear and sounded like a real sentance. He has started singing/saying his ABC’s - he can already recognize all the letters but now he is starting to know the order too. He is also starting to count. It used to be 2..1..9…2 but over the weekend he started saying 1..2…3…4..5…8…9 - it is really cool to hear him and be waiting to see if he gets the next one right. I overheard him counting and I couldn’t believe he made it to 5. I am sure all parents go through this stage … “I can’t believe he knows that…etc” but it is still really fun.
We have been working on a mini-kitchen remodel and lets just say that it is a good thing this is a practice house. We put in a new counter - bought it from Lowes…just formica, anyway she made a point of saying “oh, we can do that in one piece…” I thought, great. Of course we didn’t think about actually getting into the counter space, so Chuck and I cut it right down the middle by the sink…then read later you shouldn’t make cuts by the sink due to water leaking…hence caulk is our new best friend. The “cut it right down the center” was just the first in a series of probably 15-20 “adjustments” we had to make to the counter…it was a mess and my fault since I made the template. That was just the beginning because then we got plumbing…seemed like an interesting challange until our first test run when water was dripping from everywhere. Anyway, we got it fixed eventually, although I keep checking under the sink for drips…maybe they were all due to our little helper 
