A few videos

I wasn't able to place these video clips into the last blog post due to Blogger being uncooperative! Hope you enjoy them!



So you can see exactly the sort of things Ian likes to do in the mud ..

We talked a few blog posts ago about how much Ian likes to rhyme. Lately, he's been playing a "rhyming game" of sorts. Sometimes, we'll ask him to think of words that rhyme with a word that we think of; other times, he'll think of the starting word. Either way, it turns into a funny game with lots of made-up rhyming words. :) (And, no, I have no idea why Ian was standing by the trash can ...)



Ian has been VERY interested in letters lately. He now can identify all of the upper case letters of the alphabet with high accuracy, although he still gets R/K and M/W confused at times. He also can recognize numbers 0-9, though still mainly thinks 9s are 6s. He LOVES "reading" cereal boxes, ads, signs on the road, etc. We'll hear him spelling out the letters individually and then ask, "What does THAT spell?" In this example, he's reading "SALE" and "INCREDIBLE!" (backwards).





We've also mentioned how much Ian loves story. At least 30?? times a day, Ian asks us to tell him a story! He loves ANY story that we make up or any Bible story. Lately, he's also been very interested in fairy tales such as "The Three Little Pigs," "Rapunzel," "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Jack and the Beanstalk." During his "rest time" (he still rarely falls asleep in the afternoon), he loves to tell himself stories, too. I tried to video the monitor so you could get a glimpse at the riveting stories Ian tells himself. :) Right after this story ended, he told an elaborate story about friends Mr. Kyle, Ms. Aliceson, and Caleb. :)