Ben's milestones (March 2005)

You, mommy and Uncle Bubba were going to get dinner and a movie (Daddy was at home with March 5, 2005
William). You started counting to 10 and then you counted from 11-20. You skipped 14-17.
Mommy’s going to start working on that with you.
I had to take you and William to the hospital today (you had to have a sonogram on your March 7, 2005
stomach and Will had to have one on his lungs (still wheezing). I think you have reflux.
Have to wait for the tests. (Results: You didn’t seem to be refluxing, but they put you
On prevacid.)

At 2 years and 8 ½ months:

§ You are still signing the words (more, please, bath)
§ You are still into Bob the Builder. You love wearing your Bob the Builder clothes to school.
§ You love to sing – especially the Bob the Builder song. You’ve learned so many songs at school (Twinkle, Twinkle little Star; Jesus loves me; ABC song)
§ You love Thomas the Train also. You have a couple shirts; the trains; a suitcase.
§ You are still always in time-out. You don’t listen well at all. We are hoping it’s your age and that soon it will pass.
§ You still bother the cat. I wish you would leave her alone. You go into time-out for hitting, chasing the cat; you get out of time-out and have to go right back in a few minutes later. Makes mommy and daddy very sad.
§ You speak SO well. You talk in sentences, carry on conversations. It’s so wonderful. You have trouble with ‘f’ you say “tone” for phone and “tood” for food.
§ You call William your baby. And you say “Yilliam” but you can say “Will”
§ You LOVE Your baby. You love to play with him, hold him, kiss him, hug him. You love making him laugh. Your favorite thing to do is sit on top of him. Surprisingly he loves it. It makes you so happy when he laughs at you. You are still very concerned about Will and want mommy to get him from the car first, get him if he’s crying. You are very sweet when it comes to him. You share your toys with him very well.
§ You love trains, airplanes, tractors and construction vehicles.
§ Favorite color is still Orange. You have lots of orange things (shirts, shorts, your shoes have a touch of orange (which you picked out). Your second favorite color is still Pink (mommy’s hoping you grow out of that).
§ You know your ABC’s by site and their sounds and you know your ABC song. YEA for you!

We started seriously potty training you over Spring Break. You’ve done so well. You are out of March 10, 2005
Diapers during the day. You still wear them at night and for long naps. You are doing so
Great and you are so proud of yourself when you go to the potty by yourself. I am so proud
Of you and so impressed at how well you have done. When I started this, I told you that your
Teachers would be so proud of you when you went back to school wearing underwear. You were
So excited by that. I think that’s what helped you with it. You have just done beautifully. Thank
You for making it so easy for mommy and daddy.

Your first day to wear underwear to school. You were so happy and proud of yourself. You March 21, 2005
Did great. Your teachers said you didn’t have any accidents. YEA for you! I told your
Teachers how hard you worked and they made it extra special for you and praised you
A lot. YEA FOR YOU!

At 2 years and 9 months (a couple things to add to above):
§ You are potty-trained. Just have to work on nighttime! YEA!
§ You know your ABC’s and you can count to 20. You skip a few numbers, but you are doing great.
§ You can recognize your name by site.
§ You know mommy’s name, daddy’s name, William’s name, Your first and last name, Uncle Bubba’s name.
§ You talk so clearly. Your words are getting clearer and you are getting much easier to understand. There aren’t too many times where I don’t understand you.
§ You still enjoy playing with Conner, but also like playing with the next-door neighbor girl, Christine.
§ You love to pray at night to God and sing your songs to Jesus. It’s so wonderful to hear.
§ Still a picky eater and don’t like to sit at the table to eat.
§ Your favorite drink now is chocolate milk.
§ You’ve started waking up in the middle of the night and coming to mommy and daddy’s bed.
§ You like renting movies from blockbuster and watching them.
§ One of the things you enjoy now is playing Playhouse Disney games on the computer.
§ You aren’t really sleeping with any lovey’s right now. You have several you like; your kitty kitty, your whale, your blue elephant (big and small). The green golf pillow ripped and mommy hasn’t sewn it up yet – hopefully mommy will get to that soon : )