4 years old!

This one's for you buddy:

Dreams

Making friends

Yesterday Max and I went grocery shopping together. Groceries for me and muffins for Max.

When we were done we went to the cash register to pay. There was a gentleman packing bags for the customers and walking them to their cars if they had a lot of groceries (like us). I had talked to him briefly once before.

When he saw us he got a big smile on his face and said: How are you today? I said: Fine thank you, and how are you? Great! And then he asked me the same question about three more times. Same response from me. He could not stop smiling at me: 'You know me right? I have seen you here before.' Oh yes, I said we talked very nicely last time.

After paying for the groceries he walked us to the car, we chatted a little bit, he was just still so excited and then said :

I really like you a lot, you are a very nice person :-). Do you like me too?

Uhm, well you are always very nice to us (I usually wait a while before a tell people I like them).

Then he said: I really like him too (Max) :-). Hi buddy, Max totally ignored him (he was playing on the phone), but he did not care, he stared at him very happy and said, Bye buddy, before closing his car door.

Before leaving he excitedly told me again: I really like you, then gave me hand, introduced himself, asked me what my name was and then we said goodbye's. SEE YOU NEXT TIME!! BYE BYE (still all smiles).

Not hard at all to make new friends!

Geez Max! (I need to take some new pictures)

Spot the differences

Do you see the differences between the two? 

Me neither, but according to Max, one of these is 'Absolutely disgusting!, How dare you feed me that!, I will not touch it!' and the other one is 'Yammie, cheerios!'

Serves me for thinking that I can just simply switch brands and expect Max not to notice. 

Tricky grammar

Another step forward in Max's language development:

He was eating and ran out of food, he then started to say: "I want more eat the food," after which he looked a little puzzled, corrected himself and said: "I want more food."

This is huge because Max tends to learns things by memory, phrases like "eat the food" are learned in chunks, not as separate words. But tonight he showed insight, the words are no longer a chunk, they have individual meaning now :-).

And he was hungry....

I and you

Sometimes we have to guess what Max 'gets,' he is not always able to share his inner world with us. Luckily he does offer glimpses.

The other day I said:' Max, can I cut YOUR hair?' to which he repeated:'No no, cut MY hair.'

Then Saturday when mike placed him on his neck, Max said: 'I big :-).'

Today when has was taking a bath he said: 'I take a bath.'


I think he gets it..

Happy Valentine's!

 I was not forgotten! Michael ordered flowers before weapon school even started, just in case he would forget :-).

I am slowly introducing Max to more pretend play activities, hence the doctor's set. Pretend play is enormously important in creative and abstract thinking. Plus it's a lot of fun! Did I ever tell you he was driving my tampons around, pretending they were cars :-).

And he's getting to big for his car, he rolled down the hill, topped over and got his big almost 4 year old body stuck. So yeh, I ordered him a bike instead. The bike will be great in helping Max with his motor planning issues. Sounds complex I know, so just remember this, if I ever post that Max is riding his bike, BIG BIG BIG DEAL!!!!

St. Maarten!