all about Calin

My blog has been feeling a little neglected lately.  So here is a post on Calin!  I haven't posted about him in a while.

I tried to take some pictures of him over at Kelly's a few months ago, but it didn't go too smoothly.  He's a typical 2yr old and does not want to sit still (especially when his cousins are playing in the other room) 

He's a funny kid and I love how much he learns every day.  Everyday he learns at least one new word. 

He loves to identify letters.

He loves to count.  Usually to 4, but gets to 10 every so often too :)

Words that start with a c sound, like cat, he pronounces with a t. cat=tat  car=tar  

Sometimes he just drops the first letter altogether, like with Capri.  He calls her Pri or Apri

He's starting to put sentences together and I think it's the cutest thing.  He mixes up me, you, I alot.  He calls other people mom and dad, like Kelly, she's usually always mom.  And the other day I heard him call a random guy at the library "dad." Maybe because he was playing with his own kids and they were calling him dad?  HA, I don't know.  Silly kid.

This week, he started calling me and Jordan by our first names.  I think it is hilarious!  Especially since it's usually when he's shouting to us from another room.  So hearing Calin shout "Kyla!  Kyla!  Kyla!" "Jordan!  Jordan! Jordan!" craks me up.  Of course we try not to let him see us laughing :)

 

Here are some of his most common Words/Phrases/Sentences:

"done touch"

"no, I done wan it"

"one minute!" (for timeout.  He likes to put us in timeout. And when he is in time out and we tell him it's over, he usually tells us he need one more minute.)

"Mean!" (I was at the store the other day when lady YELLED at her son, and Calin was staring in shock.  I hurried and switched isles before he could yell out "MEAN!!" to the lady, ha that would have been embarrassing)

"Done whine, please."

"I'm tired." "I wanna go sleep"

"mygurt"  (gogurt)

"You tare me!" (You scared me)

I'm sure there are lots more, but that's all I can think of right now.

He loves his little sister so much!  And now that she can crawl around and play with toys, he's learning to play with her.  It's a work in progress, but it's pretty sweet when it works. 

When we are out shopping and he sees something pink, he points it out and says "Pri!" :)

He's starting to lable girls and boys.  Usually everyone is a boy though.

 

Some of his current favorites:

his "dice" (blankets)

Foods - pasta, cheese, gogurts, oatmeal, fruit, carrots, suckers, pretzels, popcorn, broccoli

Singing and dancing (favorite song to sing "Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam" favorite song to dance to "Beauty and the Beast")

brushing his teeth

Shows- Super Why, Curious George, Blues Clues

Movies - The Grinch that Stole Christmas, Monsters Inc (only on the portable DVD player), Toy Story

Toys - Puzzles, Buzz Lightyear, and his trains (or anything Capri is playing with)

Loves to play with our iPhones, and the Wii

loves wrestling with Jordan, and being tickled, and "scared"

Here's a video of him singing before bed a few weeks ago. 

try to ignore my annoying voice :)

He's so much fun, and we love him to pieces! There is rarely a dull moment with this kid!

Oh, and just for fun here are his 2yr stats (vs 18 mo) that I never posted 

24 Months
Weight: 27lbs - 40th percentile
Height: 34" 46th percentile
Head Circumference: 18.9" - 40th percentile

18 months

Weight: 23.1 lbs - 26th percentile  

Height: 31.5" - 26th percentile 

Head Circumference: 18.3" - 14th percentile   

 

At 2 1/2  he's  closer to 36" and is 30lbs.