I just got home from being with my daughter, son-in-law and the sweetest grandson EVER in their lovely home. I helped a little with the laundry, which does pile up with an active nineteen month old!! With my daughter working fulltime, the laundry does get washed but the folding and putting away part is hard to manage on a day-to-day basis. Little Gordon Lee is a big helper though with the household chores of sorting and putting his own books and toys away. YAY!!! Which leads me to the topic of this post. While visiting, I noticed that this little bundle of energy is quick to make connections between his books, stuffed animals, pictures, and objects in general. I was amazed when he was just over a year old when my daughter showed me how he grouped a yellow star, a yellow drum stick, a yellow block and a yellow ball in a separate group. Now that he is nineteen months, he will grab his "duck duck", his duck blanket, his book about ducks and his rubber duckie and bring them for us to see. He also likes ALL of his books in one drawer. Even if that means stuffing them in there until the drawer can't shut. I observed this first hand when I tried to get him to put some of the books in another drawer so there would be more room. He is determined to make it work because this drawer MUST be the BOOK drawer. He even knows whose shoes are whose. When he wants to go outside, he will bring his mommy her shoes or his daddy's shoes to him or my shoes to me and help us put them on. In the above picture, he had fun wearing his daddy's boots;)
He is in the beginning stages of the "potty connection". He is a quick learner but wants his privacy in there. My son-in-law figured out he likes his privacy, so he closed the door enough to keep an eye on him and then when he heard the "potty chair" tune, he opened the door wide and really celebrated the moment with a star on the calendar. He, (my grandson that is, not my son-in-law) would run to the calendar to watch us draw the star. It is an amazement to me to see how one so young can organize, catagorize, and internalize so many skills. Thank you God for blessing Gordon Lee with these skills and talents to be organized and to learn so quickly!!!
