Sterling is growing SO fast. It is amazing what all he is aware of! (I know that ended in a preposition but I don't care) He will just pick up on little things, and then spit them back out weeks later. Hopefully his love for learning will continue into his school years and throughout his life, because right now it seems like he is happiest when he is doing something "educational".
He still loves balls, and is now learning the distinction between a "bataball", "baeball", "football", and "socca ball", the later of the two being his favorite. He also LOVES to count. Maybe if we taught him an eccentric laugh he could get a role on Sesame Street. He counts everything, sometimes I even hear him in his room counting during naptime. I could kid myself into thinking he is counting sheep or something to help him go to sleep, but the jumping and kicking around convinces me otherwise. He can count to 10, and sometimes adds eleven and sixteen.
His favorite books right now are Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Chicka Chicka 123, Hand Hand Fingers Thumb, and Panda Bear Panda Bear What Do You See? He loves to play with his stuffed animals, and I think his attachment to his paci and "bankie" (that's what he calls it, not us) has increased greatly over the past few months.
He is starting to say some really funny things. He says "Yummy Tummy" that I think he learned from Nanie. I told him to tell Daddy "See Ya Later." He responded "See Ya Later Alligator," I think he learned that one from KiKi. Today the neighbors cat roamed into our yard, that we actually got to enjoy today because of the lovely weather. It is black and white, and Sterling immediately said "Panda Bear." The cat wouldn't leave him alone while he was playing baseball, so he looked at me and said, "Bonk him on the head?" I told him that we couldn't bonk the cat on the head with his bat, but I couldn't help having a good laugh over that one!
He has also picked up on some of our Southern slang and combines words like: peanut butter and jelly - which he can say - usually becomes "pandeddy" (that took a while to decipher), come here is "cummere", I wish I could think of some more because some of them are really funny but no more are coming to me.
His favorite things to eat right now are oatmeal and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, without crust. What is the deal with kids and crust anyway? I have never cut his crust off before, and he has never seen anyone else eat a sandwich without crust. Somehow, like all kids, he has learned that he doesn't like it.
He is a bit obsessed with pillows right now, too. I took the pillows off of the couch one day so that we could watch a movie on the floor. He now wants to pull the pillows off every day.
