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Kenneth's Second Year Milestones and Antics 8/23/02 Said, "I have an announcement!" First Haircut 8/22/02 Made his first snip with scissors 8/20/02 When he woke up from his nap, he spotted the large silver punch bowl I had just polished sitting on the table. He was very curious about it and asked a number of questions. I explained what it was for and showed him that it was empty. He asked to see it empty again, so again I tipped it up so he could look inside. Then he said, "Could I put asphalt in it?" 8/14/02 First Two Year Molar 8/14/02 Said, "I do not love you!" when I put him down for his nap. It didn't really hurt that much. 8/14/02 When I told him he would be staying with a friend tomorrow, and that he should tell her if he needs to go potty, he said, "And Carol will say, 'Okay Kenneth, here is a potty for making pee pee and poop into.'" Imagining what she would like say! 8/11/02 In the car on the way home he insisted that it was Saturday, not Sunday. 8/11/02 While playing with trains alonside another little boy about his age in the doctor's office waiting room, Kenneth shared very well, and exhibited a surprising (to me) amount of selflessness and empathy. Each child had two or three train cars, but because several children were playing, the cars kept changing hands. At one point, Kenneth had only one car and was clearly looking around the table for another. I saw a stray and pointed it out to him. The other little boy (who had two or three cars already) heard me and he and Kenneth reached for it simultaneously. It wasn't really clear who got there first, but Kenneth ended up with it. Well, the other little boy got upset, very upset actually, but I decided to let Kenneth keep the car to play with because, A. he hadn't taken it FROM the child, and B. He only had one car and the other little guy had 2 or 3 already. However, much to my surprise, Kenneth turned around and gave the car to the little boy completely unbidden. I was touched. Unfortunately, the other kiddo kept crying anyway. 8/6/02 While playing in his room, Kenneth sat Creamy Bear up beside him and was handing him puzzle pieces. At one point, Kenneth asked Creamy Bear, "So, Creamy Bear, does the kitty cat go behind the green door?" then he proceeded to reach over, nod Creamy Bear's head for him and say, "Yes, it does." In a little bear voice. What a kick! 8/5/02 Told me that he was a Dinosaur, pointed out where his two horns were and where his tail was. 8/4/02 Joked with me while reading "The Busy Bulldozer." Everything in the picture took a turn saying, "Ooomph!" like the bulldozer did when it pushed the boulder out of the way. He said, "the grass said Ooomph! It's silly!" 8/4/02 "When I'm a Mama, I will get candy." 8/4/02 8/2/02 "Charlie, do you want to get out of your stroller and play with the trains with me?" Pooped in Potty again 8/1/02 Got two stickers, two skittles and talked to Uncle Thomas on the phone. Conversation 7/31/02 Daddy went for a ride in Uncle Dave's new convertible. When they returned, Kenneth said, "Now it's Mommy's turn." 7/30/02 Interesting that he's getting the concept of taking turns. Many thanks to the older kids at Gymboree. "My chair is missing." We had moved it to accomodate a neighborhood card game the night before. 7/28/02 Completed his 12 piece train jigsaw puzzle with a good deal of assisstance, but paid attention and saw it through to completion. 7/27/02 completed his "Up, Down, Over, Under" Puzzle independently 7/27/02 Several times in a row. "Thank you for cooking nachos for me, Mommy." 7/27/02 Scraped the back of his spoon on the edge of the bowl to keep his soup from dripping on his lap at Jason's Deli (Broccoli Cheese Soup) 7/26/02 Pulled his pajama top off over his head 7/26/02 7/21/02 Pronoun reversal has all but disappeared. Occurences are rare. Woke up dry in the morning and had no accidents all day 7/21/02 Hung new car wallpaper in his room 7/20/02 Asked to sit on the potty 7/15/02 At a stop sign where we usually have to wait for a while for traffic to clear, I paused and drove on through. Kenneth said, "There're no cars today." 7/12/02 Potty training boot camp began 7/11/02 Progress is slow, but steady. He wore underwear for four hours in the AM. Is begining to show signs of being able to jump with two feet simultaneously 7/11/02 "Couch, Keegan, Couch, Keegan" - again, noting that the initial sounds are the same. Maybe reading all that Dr. Seuss is paying off! 7/11/02 "Cow starts with K" noting the initial sounds were the same 7/9/02 Conversation - July 7, 2002 July 5, 2002, "Thank you Daddy for getting a Lolli-pop for me." Conversation - July 3, 2002 After he was in bed I went in to check on him and I told him, "Okay, now you need to lay down and go to sleep." He said, "okay, okay, OKAY!" 6/29/02 Said, "Hi Guys are you ready for a story?!" to all his stuffed animals at bedtime. 6/29/02 Said, "Daddy has a face and shoes!" upon greeting him when he returned from a business trip 6/26/02 Slept in his big boy bunkbed for the first time 6/24/02 Fell out at midnight, fell out at 11:00 PM the second night. "We will go swimming in Grandpa Mac's Swimming pool. It has water in it to swim in. Daddy will take off his hat. Daddy will take off his glasses and Daddy will take off his shirt." 6/14/02 "Kenneth saw a big pile of brown dirt and Kenneth saw a big pile of gray dirt. And an excavator did it and an excavator moved it and the roller was there. Did the excavator look like Mary Anne?" 6/13/02 6/13/02 "Did you go to Home Depot? Did you drive a lawn mower? Did you turn the steering wheel? Did you turn on the airconditioning?" 6/13/02 "Listen Captain, it's time to go to work! I'll push you. Are you listening Captain?" To the captain of the tugboat in his bathtub. "I have a little red injury" 6/13/02 Seems to be understanding how to operate his "Ready Set Go Cars" You have to back them up and let them go forward. During a playdate, friend Quinn fell down and cried. While Quinn's mommy comforted him, Kenneth stopped playing, walked over and said, "Are you alright, Quinn?" 6/7/02 6/6/02 He ran a bottle of lotion across his face and said, "Are you shaving your whiskers?" His story telling and sentence length and structure is getting so complex! Sometimes I'm just floored by the things he says. We passed a pasture of cows all laying down. He said, "You want to go home to your room and get white blanket for the cows laying down?" It was so cute. We are still working on that pronoun reversal business, but it's cute. 6/5/02 On a walk past a garden, he pointed out that "hollyhocks" sounds like "lollipops" 5/31/02 The trackball finally "clicked." Just suddenly, this morning he started using it in a new and clearly deliberate way. Previously he had been rolling it rapidly back and forth in the general direction of what he wanted to do. I'm thrilled, because once he's got the mouse/trackball concept down we can try some more sophisticated software! Yippee! 5/31/02 On the way to Gymboree, he said, "It's a paint store." when he saw a Sherwin Williams other than our own, and then, when he saw a Budweiser truck he said, "That's a beer truck, it's taking beer to Uncle Dave." 5/28/02 I'm glad I was stopped at an intersection or I would have driven off the road laughing. Played with his pizza chunks saying they were bulldozers and driving them around his plate. He said they were sleeping and asked them if they wanted a blanket 5/27/02 Regularly used articles all the time. "the" and "a" I'd say this trickled in over the last week or two 5/23/02 Thanks to neighbor Ken he can correctly identify the passenger and driver's door of vehicles! 5/20/02 "Can you say, 'Suspicious?'" 5/17/02 (this was not a parrot, this was an original generation, the word, "suspicious" appears in The Three Little Javelinas a current favorite.) Getting ready for bed tonight I tell him, "lets go read a book." He says, "Go read two books? Go read three books?" We read one book, but I did pick a long one, bless his heart. 5/17/02 "You saw lions and you saw tigers. They were excellent." 5/16/02 Sings a lot now, has added, "The Itsy Bitsy Spider," "The Dinosaur Song," "Pico De Gallo," and "B I N G O" to his repertoire 5/16/02 He came running into the kitchen while I was fixing his breakfast plate. He yelled, "LUNCH!" I said, just as enthusiastically, "Yeah! I'm fixing your breakfast!" He looks crestfallen and says, "Not lunch?" Cracked me up and broke my heart all at once! 5/14/02 "Daddy went to San Antonio" 5/13/02 "It was a different Chuck E. Cheese." 5/13/02 We visited the location in Vancouver, Washington. He told us this after our visit. "Popsicle sounds like bicycle." 5/12/02 "It's not going. It stopped." (negation) 5/7/02 "There's Dallas." As we drove past downtown 5/6/02 Climbed into highchair without help 5/6/02 Strung beads onto string 5/6/02 Counted to twenty (skipped a couple) 5/6/02 "Those are Troupe's shoes and Kenneth's shoes." 5/6/02 "Is it a fire truck? Actually it's a truck." 5/6/02 "Don't bang on that, it's scary!" 5/3/02 When he discovered that the sand in his sandbox was wet he said, "Mommy, put fresh sand into it?" 5/3/02 Climbed into highchair 5/2/02 Regularly asks, "where is" and "who is" questions 5/2/02 Said, "Looks like mommy's basket" when we saw a laundry basket like mine at Good Eats 5/1/02 Said, "They made gate." while looking out the window at our neighbor's brand new deck with railing. 5/1/02 (Correct pronoun, correct verb conjugation & understanding that the railing was like a gate "Look just like Daniel's truck" We saw a Black truck just like the Orrs which he had seen only once. 4/30/02 I think it's safe to say that Kenneth is finally sleeping through the night consistently. He's gone for such a long stretch now without waking up. It had been 80 - 90 % of the time since he was 2 weeks old! Hallelujah! 4/30/02 "Do you remember swimming in Grandpa Mac's swimming pool?" 4/27/02 (Whoa! That was 8 months ago) He said something unintelligible to me. I didn't reply right away, so he said, "I don't know what you're talking about." cracked me up! 4/21/02 Is beginning to use "I" correctly rather than reversing pronouns. 4/20/02 "read" Tomy, Tony & Pony with his bathtub foam letters - Mommy just kept changing one letter. He got Pony spontaneously. 4/20/02 said, "We had cookies. Mommy had cookie. Deyna had cookie. Brenda had cookie. Kenneth had cookie.Everybody had cookies." 4/20/02 first black eye - a run in with the rocking chair 4/20/02 Learned to Roll his tongue from Ken, while we were in Las Vegas 4/19/02 First night spent away from Mommy. Mom and Dad went to Las Vegas, Ken & Lori kept him 4/17/02 second night was 4/18/02 told one of his little people, "Not to touch!" which is what Mommy always says 4/16/02 Is catching big play balls now - thrown gently from a distance of 4 or 5 feet 4/16/02 Said, "Did you miss me?" when he woke up from his nap - way too cute! 4/16/02 Climbed a completely vertical ladder into his tree house 4/16/02 Climbed the stairs with no hands April 14, 2002 (we were looking at all the new light on our driveway since Deyna just cut down her cedar tree) Read off all of the letters in "McAllen" from Mommies t-shirt, in order from left to right! then said, "says McAllen" repeating what Mommy told him 4/13/02 Said, "Tony sounds like Pony." acknowledging a rhyme. 4/12/02 Uses the word "behind." 4/8/02 Is using the word, "instead." We had a substitute during libray story time. Ms. Kelly read to us instead of Ms. Gayle. 4/8/02 a long time ago (sadly, no date, but several weeks before 4/8/02) I asked him, "who are your friends?" He said, "Troupe." recognized written word, "Big" when Mommy wrote it with marker on paper. 4/7/02 Told Mommy what to draw as she drew a person, "'nother eye, 'nother ear, 'nother shoe," etc. 4/7/02 recognizes written name (sometime before 4/3/02) On one of his videos on his own name tag. He pointed to the screen a said "says Kenneth" Danced the Hokie Pokie at Library Story Time 4/3/02 Sang "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "Gymbo Stamps" 4/2/02 Has understood and used, backwards, upside down, and right side up for a while. 3/28/02 Said, "I hear a dove. Goes, whoo hoo. Sounds like owl." 3/28/02
3/27/02 We were driving down the alley on our way to Gymboree, and a big delivery truck is parked in the middle. I slow down and hesitate, trying to decide if I can get around it. I finally decide that I can and proceed. Kenneth says, "excuse me truck!" as we go by. I never said a word to him throughout any of this! 3/27/02 On the way to lunch after Gymboree, he said, "Gymbo stamps under socks and shoes." 3/24/02 "Tell the lady I saw a choo choo train." 3/24/02 - recognized a highway exit and said, "Lyle and Troupie's house." "School bus has horrible hiccups" 3/23/02 "Blurtie and Savannah all gone with Sunshine" 3/23/02 His longest sentence yet, "Noni and Tony go see Uncle Thomas (&) Aunt Teresa, play with Galen's toys." 3/22/02 3/22/02 "Mommy and Kenneth eat green shamrock cookies" First spontaneous, "I love you." 3/22/02 "are you coming?" 3/21/02 "Go see tall vase" 3/21/02 Shook box of coins and said, "Making carwash." once Mommy thought about it, it did indeed sound like the carwash. (which had been a rare scary experience a few days before) 3/21/02 "Go play with beads on table" 3/21/02 "I don't know where Savannah is." 3/19/02 He must be teething again, he said, "Go get cold chewy duck." 3/15/02 Said, "I am thirsty." upon waking from his nap. 3/14/02 Walked down the steps out the side door all by himself with no hands and holding on to nothing! This was a surprise to mommy! 3/14/02 Said, "Logan looked outside Ken and Lori's house." 3/13/02 3/12/02 At Target while shopping, looked at a row of strollers and pointed to one and said, "Looks like Brenna's," Mommy had to ask later at playgroup what Brenna's stroller looked like, because she couldn't remember, but sure enough it was the same color. States full name when asked, "Kenneth Robert McCalpin" Answers the question, "Where do you live?" with "McKinney" 3/5/02 Lined up letters in the bathtub trying to spell he put M F K up there and pointed to it and said, "Target." just cute that he gets the idea 3/4/02 Regularly says "excuse me" and "bless you" appropriately 3/4/02 Looked into his plate of pizza and said, "trapezoid." Sure enough, one of the pieces mommy had cut up for him was a perfect trapezoid. 2/19/02 Said, "excuse me." unprompted to Mommy while playing outside, to get past her to get to the sand box. 2/19/02 Pointed out and correctly named a back hoe in use at a construction site on the way home from the library 2/19/02 Demonstrated understanding of concepts of 1 through 4 while Mommy was cracking eggs to fix breakfast. I counted out two, and he handed me another and said, "three," once I'd cracked it, he handed me another from the carton and said, "four." 2/19/02 Instructed us where to pop up next while playing peek-a-boo in his tree house, said, "Over here." 2/16/02 Said, "Kenneth runny nose, Kenneth need tissue." at 4:14 AM 2/16/02 Not long after he asked to go, "back to bed." Pretend-play and make-believe are really gearing up - He said, "Luke thirsty, Luke water" and gave his dress me doll a drink. He pretended to be falling down over and over again and said, "fall down." 2/15/02 The next day 2/16/02 he pretended that his little people were climbing up and down the steps of the bus. This has been a like a switch has been flipped. When he was on the phone with Uncle Thomas. They were talking about playing at Uncle Thomas's house. Kenneth said, "Dump Truck," he must have remembered playing with Galen's in the back yard the last time we were there, which was Galen's Birthday in October. 2/15/02 Recognized the tune that Elmo Sings as "Jingle Bells." Said, "Elmo sings Jingle Bells" when I was talking about the bell on his lacing beads. I don't know how he knew that was the tune Elmo Sings each week on Sesame Street - he sings it with different words. 2/15/02 Said, "Clothes too big" first thing when I got him up this morning - we had to change him into his last pair of clean pajamas in the middle of the night, a hand me down pair that, sure enough, was too big. 2/15/02 Told us a made up story at bedtime "Mr. Potato Head Fall down, big ouch." 2/13/02 Is asking us to count things, "How many?" 2/10/02 Pee Peed in the potty, twice in one day 2/8/02 A nine word sentence, "(We put) All Noni's Stuff (on a) big truck (and) Daddy (&) Tony, drove (it) away." 2/7/02 Said, "Go home, see Daddy" as we turned onto Louisiana Street on our way home from the grocery store 2/7/02 Said, "Dr. Burton's Office, Train Cars." As we drove past his pediatrician's office (who has toy trains) on our way home from the grocery store 2/7/02 Said, "How are you?" to the checker at the grocery store2/7/02 Pooped in the potty again 2/6/02 We counted 2 crackers onto his plate. He had another in his hand already and he added it to his plate and said, "Three." 2/6/02 Asked for "water." Mommy said, "There's water for you in the kitchen." Kenneth said, "Daddy get it." Daddy was in the kitchen already. 2/6/02 Said, "Dropped toy. Noni Got it." 2/2/02 First trip to the E.R. with lower respiratory infection, retracting, wheezing - flu complications 1/27/02 Drew a face with Markers. He labeled "eyes, nose & mouth" as he drew 1/26/02 Picked up a photo of himself, twisted himself up oh so charmingly and said, "CuUuuUute!" 1/24/02 Demonstrates understanding of right and left 1/24/02 Can count to 10 in English and Spanish 1/23/02 500 words, and Mommy's not going to count anymore 1/21/02 (for a list of them) Walks on tippy toes well 1/20/02 1/18/02 successfully stabbed banana with his fork. Went Poo Poo in the potty! Yahhooo!! 1/17/02 Vocabulary 450 words 1/17/02 We set him up with his own computer - Mommy got tired of sharing! 1/17/02 Said, "Mommy, Need Help." 1/16/02 Said, "I love you." 1/16/02 Vocabulary 400 words 1/13/02 says, "one foot, two feet" 1/12/02 In the family restroom at Willow Bend he said, "Two potties, big, small" 1/12/02 Is using -ing suffix correctly ie. bouncing, shaking, dancing 1/11/02 Said, "Sumpin to eat, El Fenix" 1/10/02 Vocabulary 350 words 1/10/02 said, "Daddy at work" 1/9/02 said, "Troupe's house puppies" remembering an event that had happened weeks earlier 1/9/02 said, "two kitties, one, two" 1/8/02 Can count to ten with prompting 1/7/02 Gave Mommy a two step command. First he said, "pick up." Then, once mommy had done that he said, "play eggs." He wanted to be taken from his room up to the front of the house where his toy Easter eggs were. He did all this after seeing a picture of an egg. 12/30/01 vocabulary over 250 words 12/23/2001 Can climb into adult chair and sit without help 12/23/2001 Said, "Big O Little O" regarding Mommy's "This Old Spouse" sweatshirt. 12/22/2001 Says "Kenneth" 12/21/2001 Is using "S" correctly for plurals, for example, 1 hat, 2 hats, 1 book, 2 books 12/19/2001 Long sentence: Said, "Sing more Santa Claus please." to get Mommy to sing "Santa Claus is Coming To Town." 12/18/2001 Asked the waiter for a "high chair?" at Yummy's, looked him right in the eye. 12/16/01 Climbed down from rocking horse all by himself 12/14/2001 Uses, "Big & Small," "Up & Down," and "On and Off" correctly. 12/12/01 Knows every letter in the alphabet on sight - sometimes sings with Mommy too 12/12/01 Weaned himself, chose a peanut butter & jelly sandwich over Mommy 12/10/01 Said, "Big Bath" while standing on the Golden Gate Bridge looking at the bay 12/08/01 12/3/01 stepped down from big block in his room with no hands and climbed onto rocking horse with no help Went through entire stack of shape "flash cards" without prompting, Named each one correctly except the rectangle which he called a square. Diamond, Oval, Circle, Triangle, Star, Heart, Octogon, and Square. 11/29/01 Matched 8 colored circles to 8 colored squares by laying them on top of each other. 11/28/01 Says more than 150 words 11/25/01 Can identify all the shapes in his tupperware shape sorter by pointing or choosing when I name them. He can say, star, circle, square, oval, and "gone" for pentagon & hexagon. 11/25/01 Can name and identify all primary, secondary colors, plus black, pink and brown 11/25/01 He can name and identify on request slighty more than half the alphabet. Also, he was singing part of the alphabet song in the car today, and when I said, "LMNOP," he said, "Q." 11/25/01 Told his first joke 11/23/2001. We were riding in the car on the way from the Saltlick where we celebrated Amos's 90th birthday. Kenneth removed his soc from his foot, put it on his head and said, "Hat!" and then laughed hysterically. I laughed so hard it encouraged him so he grabbed his bib and did the same thing with it. Said, "poop" and pointed to his bottom to tell us he needed a clean diaper! Whoo Hoo! 11/17/2001 Said, "on; off; on; off" regarding the dome light when we were getting into the car. This is a game we sometimes play in the car with the light. He also said, "on" when the light was off, and "off" when the light was on, to request that the light be turned on. 11/10/01 With tupperware shape sorter, he looks at the shape and then searches for corresponding hole. He knows all 10 of them. He doesn't try them in the wrong hole, or does so knowlingly and shakes his head "no." 11/10/01 Says "All Gone." and "One More." (holds up one finger) 11/10/01 Says "Safe!" with coordinating arm gesture, is working on "Yer out!" Will say and point to: Eyes, ears, mouth, teeth, toungue, nose, elbow, knee, arm, foot, toes, tummy, bottom, and shoulder 11/9/01 Blows Kisses 11/8/01 Said, "More cheese please" 11/7/01 and "More blue please" (a blue lolli pop) 11/8/01 Pointed to chest and said, "Me." 11/6/01 First Skinned knee 10/23/01 Imitated Telephone use with toy 10/21/2001 Says over 40 words 10/20/01 Walked backwards 10/20/01 Kicked the ball 10/19/2001 can blow his nose 10/17/01 Likes to turn sommersaults on Mommy & Daddy's bed 10/9/01 Went down the slide in the backyard, with Mommy's help, He loved it! 10/8/01 Says, "Down, Please, More, Clock." 10/8/01 Said "Doop" for "Troupe" 10/8/01 pulled all the stars out of the shape box when I asked him, "where is the star?" 9/27/2001 points to his nose when you ask him, "where is your nose?" 9/26/2001 says, "Hat, Dancin', Shoes, Cookie, and Boom" 9/26/2001 said "Golly, Golly, Golly" 9/26/2001 recognized and named "Lyle" in a photograph 9/25/2001 prefers walking to crawling 9/12/2001 Knocked with his hand on the wooden armrest during "Mr Brown Can Moo, Can You?" just like Mommy does! 9/2/01 Stooped from standing to pick up a block without sitting down 9/2/01 Stood from middle of floor without holding on to anything 9/2/01 (although Daddy says he saw him do this perhaps a day or two before, Mommy saw him do it three times on this day but not before.) His eighth tooth appeared 9/1/01 Took 6 or 7 consecutive steps at Matress Giant when Mommy and Daddy were buying a new matress 9/1/01 As of 8/30/2001 he says "Balloon," & "T," among others Fed himself his entire breakfast with his own spoon 8/29/2001 Tooth Number 7 8/28/2001 Sunday August 26 at El Chico, Mommy finally realized he'd been shaking his head "No" for several days! (we have a lot of big firsts at El Chico!) Turned the carseat around 8/24/2001 Got his first telemarketing call and credit card offer 8/24/2001 (Just in time for his birthday! Michael had fun with that one!) |
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