Showing posts with label Parenting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Parenting. Show all posts

January 14, 2011

Putting the pieces together...

Everyday Porter keeps surprising us.  His mind is working on overdrive, and he is learning an enormous amount each day. One of his favorite things to do is put together puzzles. Before I started working full-time, we would go to the library here on post and listen to storytime. After the craft time that followed the stories, we would go into the kids' room and Porter would spend at least twenty minutes putting the puzzles together over and over again.

Fast Forward a few months and Porter moved on to 28 and 48 piece puzzles.  We bought him at ton of these, and he would pull them out occasionally.  However, it always ended up with Porter throwing a tantrum and throwing the pieces, because he couldn't understand how it went together. Before he left, Joe spent a ton of time teaching Porter how to match up the straight pieces along the edges but most of all he taught him patience.

Look what I saw when I came out of the kitchen tonight:


He did it! All by himself with zero tantrums! Thank you honey for getting through to him. We miss you!!

December 29, 2010

Dear Santa...

"I have been a good boy!" has been heard numerous times around the house in the last few weeks.  On Christmas Eve, Porter got the chance to write his letter to Santa and ask for the "Batman cave", "Batmobile", "paints", and a "train for mommy" that he has been talking about for the last three months.  First, he had to put out the cookies:



Sneak one...



Get extra cheesy with Daddy:



And then sit down to write his name:




And then ask Daddy to write out all of his requests:





And, when the letter was all done...




He had to fold it up:



And put in the stocking labeled "Letter to Santa":



And then the wait began...


December 27, 2010

56

Not too bad for a 3 1/2 year old, eh? In bowling that is! We have discovered Porter's favorite game to play.  He gets so excited when we take him to the bowling alley on post.  He knows what size shoe he wears, what ball he needs, and he is working on patience in between turns.
We went on Christmas evening with a couple of our good friends, and the little guy got a huge kick out of the cosmic bowling! He started dancing and did the BEST MC Hammer dance to the line and did this slick side fling of the bowl down the lane. It was so smooth, and I think that I got it on video.  The kid has some serious moves. Joe and I really do not know where he gets them from...