He's got his mother's eye(glasses).
Mama here. No baby yet. I really thought that shampooing all the carpets might put me into labor, but it just gave me a backache.
Henry has been needing to burn some steam lately. Winter is getting to all of us, so I insisted that Henry go to the open gym at the gymnastics center to get some energy out. It must have worked because he took a 3 hour nap and was very well behaved tonight.
I thought I'd update you on a couple of Henry's developments and quirks as of late.
Henry's main concern with everyone is not whether or not they are coming or going, but rather how they got there. For example, mama drives to work in her car. Papa rides a bus, but sometimes drives his car. Huckey comes to babysitter's in a truck. And Ariel walks across the street to get to our house. It's very important to make sure we discuss these details as soon as anyone walks in the door.
Henry has definitely inherited the Seibert engineering gene. We spend most of or time working on blocks and puzzles. How many blocks can we fit in the bed of the dump truck? What are the most efficient ways to lay down 3 layers of blocks so that we can dump them? We also work a lot of the letter and number puzzles we have. Henry has mastered them both, but is less concerned with naming the letters and more concerned with the letters and numbers that look similar. For example, the 6 and the 9 are the same, just upside down. The M is an upside down W. The H looks like an N, but has a line through it instead of diagonally. If you turn the N sideways, it becomes a Z. An A is a V upside down with a line through it. And so on. It is a big point of conversation.
On the same note, Henry is also very concerned with the use of electricity in the house. Since the carpets we wet, we had a lot of fans out. Henry makes it a point to let us know which fans are on and which are off. The same with lights and the radio. Especially intriguing is the night light that automatically turns on when the hallway light turns off. It took about 15 seconds for Henry to figure out how to cover the sensor and turn the light on, even when the hallway is lit.
But Henry's not a total geek. He does possess a few people skills. He's very sensitive to baby Suzie's need for diaper changes and prefers that she stay strapped safely in her car seat at all times. And when we were getting ready for bed tonight, I pulled out a blanket sleep with footies and Henry insisted that the jammies belonged to Oliver. It took much persuading to get him into the jammies and a promise that tomorrow morning we would add them to the pile of old clothes we keep for Oliver (like he'd fit into anything Henry's outgrown.)
Henry has been needing to burn some steam lately. Winter is getting to all of us, so I insisted that Henry go to the open gym at the gymnastics center to get some energy out. It must have worked because he took a 3 hour nap and was very well behaved tonight.
I thought I'd update you on a couple of Henry's developments and quirks as of late.
Henry's main concern with everyone is not whether or not they are coming or going, but rather how they got there. For example, mama drives to work in her car. Papa rides a bus, but sometimes drives his car. Huckey comes to babysitter's in a truck. And Ariel walks across the street to get to our house. It's very important to make sure we discuss these details as soon as anyone walks in the door.
Henry has definitely inherited the Seibert engineering gene. We spend most of or time working on blocks and puzzles. How many blocks can we fit in the bed of the dump truck? What are the most efficient ways to lay down 3 layers of blocks so that we can dump them? We also work a lot of the letter and number puzzles we have. Henry has mastered them both, but is less concerned with naming the letters and more concerned with the letters and numbers that look similar. For example, the 6 and the 9 are the same, just upside down. The M is an upside down W. The H looks like an N, but has a line through it instead of diagonally. If you turn the N sideways, it becomes a Z. An A is a V upside down with a line through it. And so on. It is a big point of conversation.
On the same note, Henry is also very concerned with the use of electricity in the house. Since the carpets we wet, we had a lot of fans out. Henry makes it a point to let us know which fans are on and which are off. The same with lights and the radio. Especially intriguing is the night light that automatically turns on when the hallway light turns off. It took about 15 seconds for Henry to figure out how to cover the sensor and turn the light on, even when the hallway is lit.
But Henry's not a total geek. He does possess a few people skills. He's very sensitive to baby Suzie's need for diaper changes and prefers that she stay strapped safely in her car seat at all times. And when we were getting ready for bed tonight, I pulled out a blanket sleep with footies and Henry insisted that the jammies belonged to Oliver. It took much persuading to get him into the jammies and a promise that tomorrow morning we would add them to the pile of old clothes we keep for Oliver (like he'd fit into anything Henry's outgrown.)
For a two year old, those grown up glasses actually fit his head quite well.
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