Final Countdown!

As my mom pointed out yesterday, today is Connor's last day of being two!
We spent yesterday getting ready for a birthday celebration. A few final two-year old updates.

Last weekend at the park we met a mom who mentioned a website she let her one year old look at. She attributed his knowledge of the letters of the alphabet to this site. The other day in need of a new "activity" I decided to check it out- really just curious as to how that would work. Connor and I explored a few of the pages on the site but the one he really fell for was "Earth Day." It features an activity in which the user clicks and drags cans, paper, and plastic into recycling cans. I didn't think he would be able to master the fine motor skill required to place the cursor on the item, but he got it.

Connor's also been making various pre-reading word sound associations (phonological awareness?). Yesterday he said, "Hey! Weekend sounds like key," and last weekend he said, "Hey! Pans go in the pantry."

This morning I was talking about the backbone and rambling on about animals and mammals. "Hey!" he excalimed. "Animals and mammals rhyme." While they don't exactly rhyme, they're close enough, and I didn't know Connor knew what rhyming was.