Just Ephraim

Spotlight on Ephraim, 22 months old today! Ephraim loves the Muppets and interacting with my Kermit. We sing the Manamana song all the time. I caught Ephraim singing it the other day:

He has many TWO moments--rarely losing patience but often frustrated and insisting on doing things himself (closing the door, walking somewhere, etc.). He tries to climb back into my lap FEET first from the floor and is frustrated when it doesn't work. He often has a strong opinion about what he wears. Many tears are shed if we need to change his shirt from too much spilled water (happens at least once daily) or spilled food. I try to give him a choice about the clean shirt so we rotate between a few favorites. For three days straight he insisted on wearing only ONE shoe around the house! He can say "one" and "two" and hold up the right number of fingers and identify that many objects. Two is by far his favorite number. He has to have two crackers/cookies/pieces of something. He loves using toys to role play. We played for about 30 minutes with our pretend animals and dinosaurs, drinking from water and eating trees and making noises. Cars and trucks fall and get hurt just like people do. So adorable!