Well, it has happened... our son now has an attention span! Not like he's never had one before, but it hasn't always been very long! It's so nice for mommy to sometimes be able to get something done while he is awake, and as you will see it is lots of fun too!
Logan has finally decided that full length movies are enjoyable and he is able to follow them from beginning to end. Ok, so let's be honest... he is able to do this with ONE movie. We haven't tried any others, because since we came back from NY there has really only been ONE movie he has even wanted to watch. Aunt Julie let him take home "Air Buddies," the sequel to "Air Bud" and he calls it THE PUPPY MOVIE. I have to admit that it is a cute film that has lots of clever lines, but that was only my feeling the first couple of times that I watched it. Now I have seen it at least a dozen times (and we've only had it unpacked for less than a week) and I don't know that I still have the same feelings. It is a cute one and it's better that the Wiggles, that's for sure.
But along with movie watching, the increased attention span does go into other things. Logan has discovered the love of coloring and thanks to Aunt Maureen's purchase of the Color Wonder things, it's also a lot less worry for mommy when he is coloring by himself! He starts by naming all of his shapes (and not just your basic ones either) and then he proceeds to color each one in while telling you what color he is using. He likes to make sure that the WHOLE shape is filled in (no white spots for this boy) before he moves on to the next one. Because he knows so many different shapes (including pentagon, octagon, trapezoid) this can take him up to twenty minutes or more! Very nice indeed.
Here is a picture of him coloring at the table. Excuse the crazy hair and greasy face... this was after dinner and before bath time! The humidity in Houston is to blame for the curls after a long day of playing!
Here is a sample of some of his work. He likes to make a page almost exactly like these EVERY day! He is definitely a creature of habit and has his mommy to thank for that!
Another new project he has gotten into with this attention span increase is playing with playdoh! Oh the child wonder that it is and he really does LOVE it! He was very disappointed the first day that I didn't have cookie cutters for him to make "flowers" with... apparently he has played with playdoh in the nursery during my bible study and they had cookie cutters. So, today we went out and purchased a kit to do all sorts of fun things with. I thought he sat for a long time yesterday! Well, today, having the little "tools" and such, he sat at the table for over AN HOUR and played with very little assistance from me. But, having loved playdoh myself as a kid, I didn't get anything else accomplished during this hour. I took it upon myself to play with the colors he wasn't using! Those little gadgets can be lots of fun!
Obviously, this was my work... he can spell his name, but we aren't to making the letters yet!
Here's my happy little fella in playdoh heaven with the color red.He hasn't even thought about mixing colors yet (and I'm hoping he doesn't for a long time!)
On another note, Logan has become quite the little singer. He has always really enjoyed music and was very good at finishing the last word or so to different lines in songs, but lately he has really picked up on singing some of his favorites all by himself... and he's say, "No Mommy! Logan do it!" if I try to sing with him! He knows Jesus Loves Me (which for some reason he just won't do for the camera), Twinkle Twinkle, and you've already seen him sing his ABCs. Counting is really improving as he can now use his fingers to show 1-10 and can count to 20 (though he didn't want to show that either).
He has really gotten into the whole performing thing... probably has something to do with all the new people he met in NY and how many times he sang and counted for everyone there!
Here is a video of the Twinkle, Twinkle with a repeat performance of the ABCs. I guess he thought since he wasn't doing Jesus Loves Me, he would pacify me with the alphabet! :-)
Here is another video of him singing the sounds of the alphabet.
Please don't think that I sit and work with him all day. I want to assure you that I do not. He knows his sounds from the Leap Frog video "The Letter Factory" and truly is a fast learner. He asks me all the time, "What that?" if it isn't something he recognizes and almost always points it out to me on his own the next time he sees one.... shapes, for example. He has a puzzle of them all and we probably "taught" him them only a handful of times and now he says them all when he does the puzzle each time. Same thing with the letters and numbers... puzzles are my "teaching" tool!!
One thing he told me yesterday that I thought was really clever...
We were driving and he says, "Mom, I see trash man!" and I said, "Oh, yes, that is a trash man's truck." (Note here that the truck was green, like the one that comes to our house)
We are at a stop light about 30 seconds later and another trash truck pulls up along side us.
Logan says, "Mom, another trash man." And I say again, "Yes, Logan, another trash truck."
He says, "No Logan's trash man. This truck brown. It someone else's."
It took me a second to understand what he was saying and I asked him, "What?"
He repeated himself almost verbatim and added, "Logan trash man green."
Then I realized what he was thinking.
Every time he points out a trash truck (man) on the road, he must think if it is green that it is the exact one that comes to our house, like there couldn't be more than one. BUT, because this one was brown, it couldn't be ours! Now, that was some good thinking! Seriously, kid?!?!
I'm sure with most mothers of toddlers, I am not alone in saying that I am truly amazed EVERY day by the things this kid picks up on. He is always saying things and often I have no idea where he gets it from... but it makes sense, so I don't question it.
Now I'm just hoping he'll be as easy to potty train as he is to teach things to! :-)
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