Some Quiet Fun

We have been busy but now our schedule seems to have settled down a little. We had one last birthday party this past weekend for my cousin Colleen's little boy. Liam turned 1 in September. On Sunday Colby and I went with my sister-in-law Jan to Rainforest Cafe and to Build-A-Bear. Jan loves both places. We had brought Colby there in April for his birthday but he was quite overwhelemed by it. Now he really enjoyed Build-A-Bear but the elephants and Rainforest Cafe did upset him a little. It was really noisy. I am noticing that things that seemed to upset Colby before, now don't and things that he didn't seem to care about before, now scare him a little. The ever changing 2 year old!

During our quiet time, I have noticed that Colby has really gained a little imagination. He has a Little People farm and many animals. We had bought some of the animals when we first visited him in Russia in June 2007 and left them for the kids in the baby home. So Colby has had them for awhile. Just recently though he has really started to PLAY with them. He has the cow drink the water and the horse eats apples. The rooster says, "Doodle Doo" as he sits in the top of the barn. All the while he says the animal sounds and even sounds for when they drink and eat. It is so cute. I took a short video and hope to post it soon.

Colby's other favorite pasttime- sitting on Daddy!

Colby has also taken to building puzzles. Since I was a Kindergarten teacher for a couple years, I have a lot of puzzles, games, books, etc that I hope to use with Colby as he grows up. Right noe he LOVES the little wooden animal and transportation puzzles. They are mostly 4 pieces each, a couple have 3 pieces, and the giraffe has 5. At first Colby asked for help with putting the first two pieces together. Now, he wizzes right through the puzzles saying the animal's or vehicle's name and a sound for all of them. Also caught on video! It is amazing to watch as Colby learns all these new things. He loves to count and repeats the letters of the alphabet. Now we are working on colors! So many new things!