Creche Festival

This was a picture taken at a local Creche Festival that Spencer and I attended in December.

Colors

For the most part Spencer seems to learn things quickly. However, colors seem to have taken a while. Todd and I were beginning to wonder if he was color blind. Recently, however, he seems to be learning his colors. A few weeks ago he correctly recognized the color of his towel as orange,which suprised me because I don't think we do orange a lot, and when I was doing laundry the other day he again pointed out the orange towel on the couch. Then tonight as I was getting him ready for bed he identified my shirt as blue,it was probably more a tourquoise but i think it counts as blue, then I pointed to some other things that he correctly identified as blue. I then pointed to some red things and he correctly identified them as red.

This morning when I was getting him ready for church he said he wanted to wear his red socks. After seeing that he had red in his shirt I put on his red socks. He then told me sometime after that he wanted to wear his pink socks. I told him he didn't have any pink socks. He sometimes talks about pink. That's a color that I don't think we've talked about much. I think we mostly do red and blue. Anyhow, at one of his doctor's appointments a few months ago he got a pink sucker. So I'm wondering if that's how pink got into his mind. Any how, it's so fun to watch him grow and learn.

As far as numbers he seems to be recognizing things in two. For example, yesterday we went on a little run/walk and, since we've recently started going on bike rides, I would point out people riding by on their bikes. Sometimes two people would ride by and he would say something like, "there's two bikers".

Halloween

Hey. If the stores can start putting out Christmas decorations at Halloween then I can do a Halloween post at Christmas time.lol Any way, we had a great Halloween. Spencer enjoyed eating the candy out of his bucket. When I was little we always went trick- or- treating around my Grandma's neighborhood,so that's where we took Spencer. My mom passed out candy at Grandma's house while my dad went with us. Spencer wanted to walk right with Grandpa the whole night. Enjoy the pictures and we would love comments.

Bye Bye Uncle Sean

Just a little background before I tell the story. Spencer has an Uncle Sean who lives out of state. Spencer has only met Uncle Sean a few times and probably doesn't remember meeting him because he was less than a year old. However, we have a little photo book with Uncle Sean and his family in it and we talk about them.

Alright. On to the story. Last week we were at the park and Spencer met a little boy named Sean. When we were ready to leave, I told Spencer to say good bye to Sean. Spencer then responded with, "Bye, bye, Uncle Sean". I thought it was so cute. I guess he doesn't quite get the concept that multiple people can have the same name.

Suckers and Santa

This morning I took Spencer to the Drs. to get his second dose of the flu shot. One of the first things he said when he got out of the car was, "sucker". I guess he remembered that he usually gets a sucker when he gets his shots. During the visit he kept asking for his sucker and I kept telling him, "after the shot". Usually, the Dr. will come in and examen him and then the nurse will come in with the suckers and shot. As the Dr. was leaving, Spencer said, "sucker". I guess he wanted to make sure the Dr. didn't forget about his sucker. He finally got his shots and 2 suckers. A yellow and a pink one. Later, we were at the mall and I let him sit on Santa's lap. He did not like it at all. He did however, have no problem taking the book they gave him. So different than last year.

Singin' in the... Family Room

     Lately Spencer has been singing along to parts of songs. This song is one of his favorites. It's hard to get it on camera, though. Whenever Spencer sees the camera he wants to look at the pictures on it rather than be in one. (That's what the fuss is near the end of the song.)

I Want Cell Phone

Well, Todd and I recently decided to get a prepaid cell phone for emergency purposes. It was only 10 bucks at Big Lots. Anyway, After playing with Nana's cell phone this weekend Spencer saw ours on the table and said, "I want cell phone". I was quite suprised that he actually said cell phone instead of just phone. He must have heard us referring to Nana's phone as a cell phone and thought the one on the table was like hers (Not that hers looks like a $10.00 one from Big Lots). Anyway, I was quite impressed. I never thought I would buy my kid a cell phone, but I'm actually thinking that Santa might be getting him one for Christmas. Of course it won't have any minutes on it, but he seems to prefer the real phones to the fake ones.