Rece at 26 months

O...M...G
This kid is something else. Every day he surprises me with something new. Something he says, something he knows, something he does. He is smart. Really stinking smart. Scary smart. Like smarter than us soon, smart.

Some of my fave Rece facts at 26 months:
- He knows his ABC's, his colors, his shapes, can count to 20 in English (although he never says 15, I guess he isn't a fan of that number), to 10 in Spanish. He knows a few days of the week and in the correct order.

- He can sing twinkle twinkle, row your boat, rock a bye baby, baa baa black sheep and probably more.

- He has some of his favorite books memorized, as in he can recite 4, 5, 6 lines of text nearly word for word on the pages.

-He knows his first and last name and our first and last names as well -Speaking of names, his teacher said that Rece learns and remembers the names of every kid he comes in contact with at day-care. We knew that he could name all of his own class mates....and their parents.... but I about fell over in the hall way when he named all the kids by picture in the other toddler room, and the majority in the pre-school room....even 3 or 4 from the infant room. I wish I could remember names that well!

-He is Obsessed with baseball. The high school baseball field buts up to the daycare parking lot and he will stand in his classroom and watch the baseball players out the window any chance he gets. He and daddy play baseball in the living room all the time and he can whack the heck out of the ball off the tee.

-He likes to tell me which way to go in our neighborhood and then he will yell out "there is our house - I found it!"

- He is starting to "test" the limits. When we say "no climbing on the table" he puts his leg a little further up and then just looks at you to see what you will do next. I have a hard time not calling him a butthead and cracking up.

-He is aware of the concept of being "safe". I am hoping not too much, I don't want him scared all the time. But we have emphasized a number of things that are not safe and how to be safe. So for instance when we buckle him in he says "so I safe? so don't worry..." Or around getting his fingers pinched in the door he has said "I pinch my fingers? Is berry dangerous" There are many things he will tell us are "berry dangerous".

-His sweet tooth has arrived. For a kid who ate literally only yogurt bites as a treat until he was 2, he has acquired a taste for the finer things in life - Chocolate Chip Cookies....ice cream and glup....chocolate candy. He has had all of them in very small quantities. He would still take fruit over any of them, any day of the week. Otherwise, he has been eating and growing like a horse lately.

- He is full of crap. He makes up stories....or maybe it is more remembering things that happened once a while ago and then adding some things that make sense. But he likes to tell stories. Jeremy said the other day "He is so you" and I can't help but agree, he is the next instigator in the making.... ;-)