I can't remember if I mentioned it here, but after Theo's visit Emmett has fallen in love with puzzles. He is constantly taking them apart and putting them back together. On the way to day care this morning he said "I am going to ask my teachers if they have any puzzles." I was kind of surprised that he would think of something like that he was going to do. On the bike ride home we were not far from day care when I asked him how his day was. He started listing off things he had done and then said "Oh, man, I forgot to ask if they have any puzzles"
Emmett has taken to learning some of the streets we cross on our bike ride to and from day care. Taraval was one of the first that he learned because we pass the train there. Tonight he spent about 10 minutes of the ride cracking himself up about all of the funny names of streets there could be. Examples included Zebra Street, Mommy Street, Pumpkin Street, and Wheel Street. Pretty soon it was pretty much anything he saw with "Street" added on to the end. It was a little surprising to hear the list of things that he could name by sight. We go up by Sutro Tower on the way home and he decided it should be called Belinda Tower.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Emmett Leibovitz
Emmett has learned how to use the camera and has taken to record every aspect of his daily life. The following are a collection of the better shots he has taken in the last couple of days (filtered from a group of hundreds of pictures).
Monday, October 18, 2010
Fun with Theo
That little kid of ours keeps getting smarter and smarter. Recently I was talking with Andrea about how I am surprised at times the understanding he has of language. For a while now he has been adding the letter s to words to make them plural, and it stands out when he uses it with words that don't follow the rule (mouse, rice, etc.), but I was really surprised the other day when he was talking about something in the past and added an "ed" to the end and it was incorrect. I didn't know he was picking up those kinds of things, but he really is (note: I am not saying he is special or anything, I am more just surprised that kids can pick these things up at such a young age).
We have had a pretty good couple of weeks. Theo came over for a sleep over on Saturday while his parents had an overnight in Southern California. It is pretty surprising how much easier it can be with two kids as they entertain one another and we can actually get some things done around the house. We made a trip down to Half Moon Bay to a pumpkin patch, went to a concert at a library, played at playgrounds, and played with trains a ton. Theo is a very nice and fun kid. He is six months older (one of the pictures below show how he towers over Emmett even though Emmett is above average in height for his age). The most surprising thing to me was that Theo could really do puzzles and loved working on them. For some reason that seems so advanced to me, but again Theo is a full 20% older so he is bound to have a quite different skill set.
Emmett is counting quite a lot now, although for him the number nine still does not exist. On our bike ride to school this morning he was very excited as we saw five lawnmowers taking care of the grass in the panhandle and he was able to count them and then show me with his hand how many he saw.
The love of trains has yet to abate. We were given a set of space shuttles by the upstairs neighbors which he loves, but he still goes to bed each night with a train in each hand. Last week Emmett and I had to make a run to Radio Shack to get Andrea some batteries, so I told Emmett that we were going to go to the hardware store and then the library to get some train books (I said hardware store before I realized we could go to radio shack instead). We got the batteries and then went to the library where he picked up a half-dozen train books and was in heaven (one a 400+ page compilation of Thomas stories---who knew?). I only realized later that as this was a new library (to us) that he thought that the library was the hardware store and now keeps asking if we could go back to the hardware store to get more books. This has not been correctable and when he tells others in his somewhat difficult to discern language that he got train books from the hardware store, the listeners are left even more confused than normal.
Emmett really seems to be a happy kid. Tonight he was laying across my lap and Andrea was pretending she was turning him into a burrito by slathering sour cream, cheese, beans, etc. all over him and then we would take turns eating him. It was one of those nights where he laughs so hard that it makes it seem that nothing else in the world matters and being happy with Emmett is all we need.
Here are some pictures from the weekend with Theo. The first two are from the pumpkin patch trip. The third is a concert in the living room. The fourth is the boys trying on the hats Andrea's mom made for Emmett's Halloween costume (a Wild Thing) which came out looking really nice.
We have had a pretty good couple of weeks. Theo came over for a sleep over on Saturday while his parents had an overnight in Southern California. It is pretty surprising how much easier it can be with two kids as they entertain one another and we can actually get some things done around the house. We made a trip down to Half Moon Bay to a pumpkin patch, went to a concert at a library, played at playgrounds, and played with trains a ton. Theo is a very nice and fun kid. He is six months older (one of the pictures below show how he towers over Emmett even though Emmett is above average in height for his age). The most surprising thing to me was that Theo could really do puzzles and loved working on them. For some reason that seems so advanced to me, but again Theo is a full 20% older so he is bound to have a quite different skill set.
Emmett is counting quite a lot now, although for him the number nine still does not exist. On our bike ride to school this morning he was very excited as we saw five lawnmowers taking care of the grass in the panhandle and he was able to count them and then show me with his hand how many he saw.
The love of trains has yet to abate. We were given a set of space shuttles by the upstairs neighbors which he loves, but he still goes to bed each night with a train in each hand. Last week Emmett and I had to make a run to Radio Shack to get Andrea some batteries, so I told Emmett that we were going to go to the hardware store and then the library to get some train books (I said hardware store before I realized we could go to radio shack instead). We got the batteries and then went to the library where he picked up a half-dozen train books and was in heaven (one a 400+ page compilation of Thomas stories---who knew?). I only realized later that as this was a new library (to us) that he thought that the library was the hardware store and now keeps asking if we could go back to the hardware store to get more books. This has not been correctable and when he tells others in his somewhat difficult to discern language that he got train books from the hardware store, the listeners are left even more confused than normal.
Emmett really seems to be a happy kid. Tonight he was laying across my lap and Andrea was pretending she was turning him into a burrito by slathering sour cream, cheese, beans, etc. all over him and then we would take turns eating him. It was one of those nights where he laughs so hard that it makes it seem that nothing else in the world matters and being happy with Emmett is all we need.
Here are some pictures from the weekend with Theo. The first two are from the pumpkin patch trip. The third is a concert in the living room. The fourth is the boys trying on the hats Andrea's mom made for Emmett's Halloween costume (a Wild Thing) which came out looking really nice.
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