The Best Things About Soren (at 2-1/2 years)

1. I love that he is a gentle and attentive parent to his "Rabbit".
2. I love how excited he (still) is about the alphabet.
3. I love the way he sings while he plays or walks.
4. I love it when he wants to copy what Carl is doing.
5. I love how quickly he is learning new words
6. and how he puts them together in new and silly combinations.
7. I love it when he says "thanks", which is spontaneous and genuine (as opposed to "thank you", which is always prompted).
8. I love his enthusiasm for the scriptures and how reverent he can be when we talk about Jesus.
9. I love the way he memorises everything.
10. I love how enthusiastic he can be about helping me do housework.
11. I love it when he talks about Chinese characters with Scott.
12. I love that he enjoys being read to
13. and reading to himself.
14. I love how excited he is about going to the dinosaur museum with Daddy.
15. I love that fish, tofu, and nuts are his preferred proteins.
16. I love the way he dances.
17. I love how obedient he is--most of the time.
18. I love his drawings and block constructions.
19. I love the way he gets excited about friends and family.
20. I love that he's starting to look like a kid.

Comments

Oozaroo said…

Soren is so amazing!

June 25, 2010 at 3:28 PM

Hannah said…

I love this, and I love your family! Can I steal this idea?

June 25, 2010 at 7:05 PM

Our Potty Training Journey

February 2010 GOAL: My initial goal was to introduce Soren to the toilet and make it a fun place to sit. I have to admit that I also hoped that we would have some fortunate "accidents" that would lead to potty training success. STRATEGY: My plan was to sit Soren on the toilet once a day and read him a couple of stories. If he peed, I was planning to give him a candy. THE BAD NEWS: The candy totally backfired. The one time that he peed on the toilet, I gave him a candy and he had a full-on tantrum begging for more. If I ever told him "When you pee on the potty, you can have a candy", he would begin screaming for the treat and be unable to focus on the toilet training. THE GOOD NEWS: Soren was not afraid of sitting on the big toilet. He actually really enjoyed it (when I was reading stories and not pimping rewards) and started asking to sit there any time his butt was bare. J June 2010 GOAL: My goal was to potty train Soren within the month of June

Cake for Breakfast!

I was getting dressed when it suddenly got very quiet out in the living room. Soren had been contentedly babbling a moment ago and now it was silent. I'm sure you can imagine me, rushing half-panted down the hall, hoping nothing horrible had happened. At our last visit, my pediatrician filled my mind with horror stories of infant death; now gruesome scenes were flipping through my mind like a slide show on speed. Or like the scary tunnel in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". Expecting a disaster, I was relieved when this was what I saw in the living room: The night before, I'd left a slice of left-over cake on the arm chair. We'd had company and Soren had been in bed. When I'd forgotten it at the end of the evening, it had been far from my son's greedy grasp. But this morning, when it was still left behind, it was within easy baby reach and too unusual for him not to explore. No wonder he was so quiet! He'd been experimenting with an unk

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This feels like such a silly thing to report about but it's got me tickled pink. Today Soren learned, what I feel, is the most important of all the English syllables: "ma". And it's about time. After months and months of hearing nothing but "da da da da" all day long, it's a refreshing change. I'm pretty sure that "da da" and "ma ma" don't correlate to anything in his mind yet. Still, he's that much closer to calling me his "mama" and I can't say the approximations don't warm my heart.

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