- ANIMALS- By now, Landry is able to recognize about 15 animals by either their name/sounds/or what they do. For example when I say elephant, he covers his mouth with his arm making a trunk and goes "bbbbrrrr," or when I say kangaroo, he says "hop hop hop"...and then there is the fish.... For whatever reason anytime he sees a fish, he calls it a "bee" In a book, in a pond, any fish now a days is officially called a bee? Well ok then!
- COUNTING- The other day I discovered by accident playing with some stacking cups that Landry can count to 6... when he cooperates. Cooperation and toddlerhood don't really go together very well though, so I don't push it. Of course, we almost always skip saying 1, and the other day we had the numbers 1-9 in front of us and he pointed at number 6 and said "six." I about fainted, and then that of course set me out on a mommy mission to see what other numbers he can correctly identify. And then answer is.... he can only pick out the number 6 :) Weird.
- SHAPES- He has circle and triangle, sometimes square. But of course, when being silly, mostly a circle is a "ball." EVERYTHING is a ball to this kid. He is obsessed. You should see our house. One.Big.Ballpit.
- COLORS- He can identify yellow and blue consistently, sometimes green. Silly Landry says that EVERYTHING is "yewo"however. We noticed when he was little that he always gravitated toward any yellow object, so this doesn't surprise me haha. Quirky boy.
Other quirky things about Landry-
- DANCING- Most of his dance moves we have named because they are so ridiculous. He used to do what we called the "dead arm drop." This is where he would drop one arm to his side (thus the dead arm) and turn himself in a circle in that direction, with a little jig going. :) He also began doing "The Carlton" not too long ago... We were at six flags at holiday in the park and he was sliding down a slide, came out, jumped up, and started swinging his arms and head just like Carlton did on Fresh Prince. It was one of those moments where you want to say "who is that kids parents?" but we were a dead giveaway because Jake and I were both dying laughing. He also does some delicate little ballet moves that crack us up all the time as well. Music or no music, this boy LOVES to dance.
- TV- Anybody who has hung with Landry for more than a day knows exactly what his favorite TV show is...LITTLE EINSTEINS! He will grab the IPad, the IPhones, the remote, and say "Steins?" .....He is relentless too, he repeats it OVER and OVER again until we either say no which results in a fit until we find a distraction, or we turn it on. Jake and I had to come up with a nickname in reference to the show because we can't even say the name in front of him without him losing his mind! We refer to them as the Alberts :)
- OUTSIDE- Just like with the Steins, we have an obsession with being outside. Many times a day, we hear "outside?" Many times a day we have an attempted escape through the doggie door. Usually barefoot and minimally clothed, when it has been 30 outside :) He has begun to do this awkward (very obvious) side shuffle sneak towards the door until he reaches a certain point and then he makes a fast break for the door. If only he could whistle and put his hands behind his back, then it would REALLY throw us off ;) It's hilarious.
Anyway, I could go on forever about all his little quirks, but our little boy is hilarious and keeps us on our toes everyday. I just had to record some of his silly traits before I forget or he stops doing them!
