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Sensory play....

After about 5 seconds, Amos asked me for a napkin for his hands.  After wiping them off, he asked me to get rid of the "snow."

They then spent the next 30 minutes playing just like this.

That teaches me never to underestimate the simplicity of little boys and cars.  And clean-up is 100 times easier.

a taste of amos' january

Amos is such a fun little boy.  He's lively, lovable and runs on routine.  Every morning the first words out of his mouth are "I need a banana."  The question, "why?" is asked about a zillions times a day, but I keep answering because I never want him to stop asking me questions.

He's a huge pretender.  His new favorite thing to pretend is Bob the Builder.  He does a lot of work around the house for me.  The best part of this pretend playing is that now we can use imaginary objects.  Don't have a hard hat, no problem, you've got a pretend one on your head.  However, he always gets the BIG one and we get the little one, no matter what it is.

He's such a good brother, too!  Sure we have some fights and hitting and stealing toys, but there are also those wonderful times when he gives Silas a toy without asking or holds Silas' hand while walking down steps or I go searching for them and find them reading a book together on Amos' bed!  Those are the ones I'll remember.

These days he loves getting dressed himself, cutting up paper and building with legos.  We've been working on putting his dirty clothes in the hamper and making sure his shoes get picked up.  We got home one evening and he ran straight to his room, took off his coat, hung it up, and put his boots away!  I don't even do that.  We are going to encourage this!

He loves playing jokes and having jokes played on him.  We sure enjoy him!