While looking through this weeks' pictures, I noticed that Eli seemed to do a lot of imaginative play. When I have researched ideas of things to do with a 2 year old, the topic of make believe play comes up a lot. It seems that around this age that the make believe play starts to really kick in. Of course this is fun as it is awesome to see what they come up with!
As seen below, Eli is in love with spiders and spider webs. He will notice a small, obscure web anywhere and this time of the year, he is constantly showing us spider webs. We have had a few large spiders build webs on our deck & porch and there is one that he can see directly out the back door. He is always asking to go see it and so Eric decided one day to MAKE Eli his own spider web:
As seen below, Eli is in love with spiders and spider webs. He will notice a small, obscure web anywhere and this time of the year, he is constantly showing us spider webs. We have had a few large spiders build webs on our deck & porch and there is one that he can see directly out the back door. He is always asking to go see it and so Eric decided one day to MAKE Eli his own spider web:
Eli enjoys pushing the kitchen chairs around to make a train or bus, whichever he feels to call it that day:
We attended our first Parents As Teachers group meeting this week. The theme was "Teddy Bear Picnic". Cheryl & Callie also attended and Cheryl & I were talking about how they are finally at the age they can really do the craft activities and understand what is going on. We also discussed how their creativity/make believe play is really improving. Here are some pictures from the morning:
Eli sat down to listen to the story & was very attentive the whole time until about the last couple of pages when he looked around, didn't see me, and said "mommy!" and ran to be with me:
Eli loves to wear our shoes but because mine are more lightweight, he often wears mine. Too bad these shoes have killer heels so he had a hard time getting them on:
Eli is much better about taking off the stickers by himself and placing them on paper (or anywhere else he chooses):
I will be very surprised if Eli doesn't take up drumming some day. He's got some rhythm and loves the "sticks":
Eli had his first Subway kid meal this weekend. And of course, his favorite "out to eat" beverage is chocolate milk!:
Also this week, Eli has enjoyed much naked time. He now insists on running around naked before bath & some diaper changes. He will go potty on the floor, but when we talk about going to the potty chair to potty, he says "no!" and runs away. We've got a ways to go:
Hope everyone has a great week!
3 comments:
"He will go potty on the floor".....so maybe don't let him run around naked!?!? :) hehe
Love to see his imagination starting to grow! And good idea about giving him his own spider web!
Oh Holly, it's all part of them learning how to recognize when they need to go potty. See here for what I mean: http://www.mycharmingkids.net/2009/02/potty-training-101.html
There are different theories of potty training but letting them run naked, have accidents and feel what it is like, directing them to the potty, cleaning up the mess, etc. is one way and is said to be the quickest. There is such a thing as "3 day potty training" which involves exactly that!!
Be careful with the naked pictures. I heard on the news this week that a couple had taken pictures of their 3 girls in the bathtub (innocent, normal pictures like all parents do) and got them developed at Walmart. Walmart called the authorities and they took the kids from their parents. That's so scary and ridiculous.
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