Ed in October

I've said recently that it was almost as if a switch went on with Ed when he turned 2 1/2 (almost to the day). Now he is 32 months old and Den and I are just floored. He has decided doing just one 12 piece puzzle is too easy, so he typically does 2 at once, taking all the pieces out and then putting them back together. I bought him some 24 piece puzzles and those still were not challenging enough because the first night he put the puzzle together in no time.

We (anyone who works with him) have been trying to teach him about corner pieces, edge pieces and finding and grouping like pieces. Apparently it's sinking in.

A couple days before this, Eddie and Den were playing with his doodle pro (the thing pictured below) and I don't remember exactly how it happened, other than Eddie saying he wanted to draw an 'E'. The next thing we know, he has every part drawn except the last tail at the bottom. Den and I were separately holding our breath, willing him to know to draw the last line--and he did! We were just amazed. Apparently Cookie has been working with him on this. He didn't seem to think it was a big deal, and I guess why would he.

Oddly, Ed has started to like riding toys. He now likes to ride the airplane around and he likes to ride in his new blue car. Here he is with daddy's shoes on. One area we're not doing so well is potty training. He was well on his way when we left for FLA. I thin our mistake was not having a perceived 'safe' place for him to pee where he didn't feel he was going to fall in. Prior to the trip, he had been asking us to pee and been peeing a couple times/day. Now, it doesn't matter what sticker we offer, he doesn't want to pee. Ugh. He knows when he has to pee too, which makes it all the more frustrating.

Cookie told me to get tough with him, but when I tried making him stay in training pants all morning, it back fired...in a big way. He wouldn't let me put a diaper on, yet kept peeing right through the training pants. It was as if he was holding it until I changed him, then peed again. Argh. Next step is to check out from the library some books (for him--and apparently maybe me) on potty training. I'm just frustrated with myself that we let a good pattern stop.

Well, I'm offically caught up...sort of. Several more posts from the last week, but no longer a month behind. Enjoy the photos, only me and g'parents are likely to trudge through the text I'm guessing :)