Jack has completed many milestones since summer began. We bought a potty and Jack understands what he needs to do and enjoys sitting on the potty, but hasn't quite mastered it yet (not that I'm expecting him too). Once he is on it I'll say okay now push to poop or pee and I can't help but laugh as he pushes on his little tummy trying to "push". I'm not sure how to show him that feeling, I think it's just something he'll have to master on his own. We are also working on him telling us BEFORE he has to go--again a work in progress.
Beginning of this summer Jack showed an interest in letters. While reading books he started pointing and asking about not just the pictures, but the text. He can now name all the uppercase letters in the alphabet and we were now working on the lowercase or little letters as Jack likes to call them. Being an intermediate elementary teacher, my students come to me knowing their alphabet, so when teaching Jack his letters, I looked at the letters in a new light. For instance, the letter 'I' sideways looks like 'H'. 'C' and 'G' are similar as are the pairs 'O' and 'Q', 'V' and 'Y'. So when Jack got these letters confused there was a very logical explanation. Who knew?
And finally, Jack is binky free!! It's been a slow process, I didn't want to do it cold turkey, so we decided to take a gradual approach. When he was about 18 months, we limited his binky to the car and when he went to bed. By the time he was two it was just when he went to bed. We knew we wanted to wean him off the binky completely over the summer and it happened actually all by accident. We were at Bryan's parent's house over the fourth; Jack and I were playing with his life-size Elmo. Jack being silly grabbed his binky and put it in his mouth, so Elmo 'grabbed' it from him telling him he didn't need it and Jack seemed to accept that. It also helped that Elmo gave Jack a new toy to replace his binky, Now when Jack asks for his binky we respond with, "Where is your binky?"
"Elmo took it"
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