Grady has mastered being able to name pretty much every body part. He points to them and says them on his body and can also point to them on someone else's body. (Even body parts when he is getting his diaper changed, thanks to Daddy...) :)
These are the ones he names everyday when we go through his "list" of things we do:
*eyes
*ears
*nose
*mouth
*tongue
*teeth
*hair
*head
*cheeks
*shoulders
*belly
*arms
*hands
*legs
*feet
*toes
*poopy (points to behind)
*baby (when he points to Mommy's tummy)
*belly button
I've been meaning to get him on video doing this, but I keep forgetting! :) Maybe soon!
He has also mastered many animal sounds and can point to the animals and make the sound or say what the animal is as he points them out. Which is so nice when he can "read" books to himself!
*cow
*horse
*pig
*puppy
*kitty
*sheep
*goat
*monkey
*bird
*duck
*rooster
*lion
*fish
*tractor (not an animal but does the sound!)
Just recently he has started pronouncing (very well) sounds at the end of word, especially the K sound. He now yells "MILK" with a lot of enunciation on the K, which is kind of weird but I'm glad he is getting the K sound so well! :) He also does this with Book and Duck especially since those are 2 words he says a lot. Pancake is also a word he says a lot, and it is funny because he will pick the which K sound he wants to pronounce really well, depending on when he says it. I guess it is still too hard for him to pronounce them both at the same time.
He has also recently discovered Mickey Mouse because his water bottle at daycare has Mickey Mouse on top of it. Doreen says he will go stand at the sink at yell "MOUSE!" when we wants a drink, but he has never done this at home yet, he stands at the refrigerator and yells "milk" or the sink and yells "water" or "juice" but not Mouse yet! However, we were in the Dr.'s office yesterday and he saw a book with Mickey Mouse on the cover and went up and yelled "mouse" and squealed because he was so excited. I guess we should start exposing him to more Mickey Mouse since he knows who he is now and seems to like him!
In related news, we have finally found a show that he will watch as well as Yo Gabba Gabba! I am so sick of Yo Gabba Gabba that I have been searching for awhile! He is pretty picky about it because it has to pretty much have total music and song/dancing activity. He gets really mad if it is just talking, so lots of shows do not have enough music for him. BUT, we found The Wiggles! He really loves The Wiggles! Which, can be annoying also, but at least it is something new! He really doesn't hardly ever watch TV at all, probably just 2 or 3 mornings a week while we are getting ready if he is up too early, but I am so glad we can turn on The Wiggles for him now and he asks for them now and gets excited! Yippee!
Another thing I want to get on video soon is Grady saying the alphabet! Not on his own, but he will repeat every letter after we say it. He will also count to 20 after we say it and counts to 3 on his own. We are looking forward to getting him some fun learning activities with letters and numbers for Christmas and his Birthday. We have kind of been slacking with getting him "big boy" toys/activities......
He seems so grown up and does so many big boy things! He LOVES to help with everything we do! We can't open the dishwasher without him there helping! Anything we do, he does right along with us and has to be the helper! (See why the toys aren't so necessary because he doesn't really play with them anyway!) We also give him lots of jobs that are his to do, which he loves, and it takes him away from doing some of the dangerous things with us. For example, when we do laundry he goes right to the step stool and drags it to the washer so he can stand there and put clothes in as we hand them to him. He knows this is his job now and gets VERY upset if he is not a part of it! He also loves to take the trash out with Daddy, get the mail, put the groceries away, put groceries in the cart, pick up his books/toys, put his shoes in a line, and much more!
We are so excited to see all of the new things to come! This is such a fun stage he is in now with learning so many new things every day!
