Oct 16th, 2009
Holden’s ABCs and Colin’s parts of speech
For a couple months now Holden has been very into the ABCs. He knows them all and every time we are out if he sees a big sign he reads all the letters off and then says “What that say mommy?” It is pretty cute and reminds me of when Colin was little.
Last Friday, after the grape sale, Holden started limping a little bit. We had been outside for 5 straight hours, biking, climbing trees, etc. When he woke up Saturday morning he wouldn’t take a single step or even stand on his leg. He stayed like that all day. In fact we went to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (in 3-D) so he would have something to do. He was happy, just wouldn’t walk. Of course I was really worried he did something serious, but Chuck being the voice of reason said let’s just give him a day or so. He woke up on Sunday morning and promptly began running around the house.
Colin’s latest thing is playing the adjective, verb, noun game. I give him a sentence and he tells me the part of speech for each word. It is currently limited to the above parts, no adverbs, articles, etc. He is about to pass my knowledge in this area – seriously. I am awful with grammar, spelling, etc.
Of course shortly after playing that game I found myself telling him “Stop licking the outside of the milk carton” at breakfast, so he is still a five year old (or a 2 year old in that case)