My Little Mommy-Preschooler

Logan is not quite in Preschool yet...but he sure likes being a Mommy-Preschooler.  Here's his "current events" at a few months shy of age 3:

• He is getting SO BIG and truely is not a baby anymore!  He helps do big boy things like unloading the silverware, cleaning the table, getting dressed himself, and putting his socks and shoes on without any help.
• He is about an 80% potty trained boy!  He wears big boy Thomas undies, even goes poo in the potty now and only has a few accidents when he just gets too involved in playing.  Still wears a pull-up for nap and nighttime.
• He is in LOVE with his jammies and would never wear real clothes if I let him!  Usually I'll make him get dressed in the morning, but come nap time, he just can't take a nap without putting jammies on.  So I give-in half the time...what's the harm in wearing jammies all day right?
• He's also learning sounds and knows the sounds a, c,t,n,p and LOVES the letters L for Logan, T for Tia (his babysitter), and S for Silas.
• He's my little complimentary boy.  Grammy always points out how he can just make a person feel so good.  Without any coaxing he is always throwing out, "Oh Mommy, you're pretty."  "Aunt Izzy, you look so pretty today!"  "Oh, I sure like your pretty shirt Grammy!" 
• He's also my snuggly boy and loves to come snuggle with my in the mornings...but he's still in the VERY WIGGLY snuggler stage...and I pretend not to but I love it!

My Little Preschooler

It's about time to record some more Silas "current events" so here's all about my litle preschooler who's a few months shy of 5 years old:

• He's turning into quite the joker.  Many things out of his mouth are followed by, "Ahaaaaaa!" 
• He's kind of an honery guy and wants to make sure we know it when he doesn't like something, said, done, asked of him, a song playing, a food on the table, you name it!  Usually it will be accompanied by his "honery grunt!"  He'll grow out of this right?
• He's started to READ!  I've been working with him on a small groups of sounds and using some montessori pink cards.  He is able to sound out some words in this set and can read almost the whole book, "Max" by himself!  I never knew that helping and experiencing a child read would be one of my most favorite things as a mom and a teacher!
• He's turning into a BIG friend.  He has gone over to play at Jake's house all by himself a few times and goes to BIG boy birthday parties without his Mom now.  He's still plenty shy in many situations but has made a lot of progress in doing things without me.
• He is very interested in scripture stories and doctrines of the Gospel.  In primary he was taught about Satan and how he tries to get us to do things we are not supposed to and he has retold that lesson to me on numerous occasion and also asked if Logan wanted to tell his FHE lesson about how Satan tries to trick us.  He loves to hear the story of Nephi going to get the plates and the Stripling Warriors over and over again.  And when I told him that the prophet has asked us to not spend too much time playing video games he understood and made sure to point it out to Logan when he wanted to play PBS kids :)
• He's still great at snuggling!  My Si-Bug is so sweet when he comes into my bed in the morning to snuggle with me.  He's past the wiggly-snuggling stage...yay!
• He's soon to be a Kindergartener!  Yes, I am currently filling out Kindergarten registration...what just happened???!!!  He's doing great in preschool though and will thrive in Kindergarten with all that he will learn!  However, he has informed us that he's not going to Kindergarten because he's NOT going to get a shot (apparently a long time ago I must have told him he didn't need any more shots until kindergarten and he still remembers!)