Two and a Half

As of yesterday, Clayton is officially two and a half years old! One of the biggest new things that he does now is singing! Earlier this week he sang along with me while I sang Jesus Loves Me and it was so sweet, he knows maybe just over half of the words. He can sing the last part of the Alphabet song too. He loves to sing along to the video for Green Eggs and Ham, and will even sing parts of it at other random times, like it's stuck in his head. He picks up a new song that I sing for him and Reese really quickly too, it only took one afternoon for him to mostly learn "If You're Happy and You Know It." We are also working on Happy Birthday" so he can sing that to Mommy in less than two weeks! He also likes to quote his favorite lines from movies and will say them along with the character as he is watching. I think this is a bad habit he picked up from Mom and Dad . . . whoops! But it does show that he has a really great memory! He can also "read" Green Eggs and Ham as we have read it so many times he apparently has it memorized!

Clayton may be ready to hit a growth spurt since he just went up to size 8 shoes, but today he is 35.5 inches tall and his weight has been hovering between 26 and 27 lbs for the last 6 months. He fits nicely into most 3T sized shirts but pants are a different story and the only pair of jeans that works for him right now are still 18 month size although they are starting to get a little short he still needs a belt to hold them up! I hope he out grows them in time for Reese to wear them! Besides that one particular pair of jeans most 24 month or 2T pants fit him well.

He is still missing his 2nd set of molars (the "2 year old molars") but otherwise has all his teeth. We still struggle with his eating habits, especially at supper time, although he gets a huge percentage of his calorie requirements from lunch (usually an entire Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich and half a cup of whole milk) and he has a healthy breakfast (either oatmeal with applesauce and cinnamon mixed in or peanut butter toast). He has a serious sweet tooth though and would probably live on chocolate pudding and M&Ms if we let him! He did try a new food recently, homemade pear sauce, and has eaten it twice! He likes to eat raw baby carrots dipped in Ranch dressing otherwise he doesn't really touch vegetables. Luckily he does like most varieties of the baby food pouches and so he sucks a down some pureed vegetables like sweet potatoes, squash and even some peas hidden by a serving of fruit. Since I started planning a weekly menu and then tracking what he eats a few weeks ago I realized he was eating much more than I thought he was, so it's easier for me to not stress about him refusing supper so often. It's necessary to just step back and look at the big picture - the entire day or even a week - and not just that one meal. It is just a work in progress!

I'm sorry if this got too long, but it's nice to have a check-in like this even if it's just for me to look back on months or even years from now to remember where his progress was when he was 2 1/2.

April 2011

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