Mr Encouragement

If you ever need some positive encouragement, come ask Colin.  We can tell that we give him a lot of encouragement for going potty like a big boy.  When we come out of the bathroom we get a mini inquisition.  "Did you go potty?", "Did you make pee pees?" "Oh, mommy will be sooo impressed.", "Oh good job making pee pees."  Just today daddy was fed pees from Colin's kitchen.  "Get it close to your mouth!!"  "Take bites."  "Hurray, you did it!"  (Daddy was not very cooperative)

The winter is finally ending so we should hopefully be able to get back outside more frequently.  Maybe Colin will be able to reach his tricycle pedals.  Or his bicycle helmet will actually fit now and not make him look like a mushroom head.

There is still shyness when he interacts with other kids, even if they are 1/2 his size.  He is starting to play with them a bit though which is a good thing.  Colin will play on his own for a bit now without any problems.  His trains will race around his table and have accidents which they will apologize to the other train for.  You can tell which books are read most often.  He will correct the reader if a word or phrase is read incorrectly.  Right now the Thomas the Train books are read constantly.  Names are starting to be given out to toys and people.  We have Mater McQueen the tractor, he takes on the roll of mommy or daddy and we are given the roll of Colin or Hobie.

 He has a great imagination and asks a lot of questions to figure out things going on around him.  It's great to see him figuring things out and gaining some independence.

Singing Itsy Bitsy Spider with mommy

 

Here he is jumping into the foam pit

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