Things we want to remember

We have had so many instances lately where Foster has said something we want to remember. Since he is really learning to talk there are just so many cute things we can hardly take it sometimes. Of course when I sit down to try to remember some of them nothing comes to mind. Ug! One of my biggest fears is that we won't remember his childhood and all the joy he brings us. 

Foster spends his time watching Elmo and Super Why, visiting with friends like Hope and Robby and Sarah; Samuel, Drew and Julia; Eric and Owen; and Lauren and Owen. He likes to play with water in the sink at home and loves playdough. I picked up an Elmo playdough set the other day which I thought was the perfect marriage of two of his greatest loves. He likes to go to Grandma's and really loves to play peak with her.  He loves letter and numbers and loves to have us make him letters and numbers with the playdough cookie cutters. He will tell us to make a zero and then wants us to get the zero out of the playdough. He will say, "zero". We then make a zero and he will say, "opens! or "open zero!" We hear this soooooo much.

He goes around singing his ABC's alot lately. He also has started to sing BINGO. I will start to sing with him and he will say, "mommy! no song!" Apparently he doesn't like my singing. We were at a birthday party today and before and after the Happy Birthday son Foster would sing "happy to you, happy to you!" We read stories before bed. He is stuck on four books in particular: Zoo Book, other Zoo Book, and Pot (spot) and snowman. No matter how hard I try to get him onto some other books it does not work. I guess he is a creature of habit.

 Foster loves suckers and asks for them for breakfast. I am thinking Daddy might have something to do with that. He asks for "sook snacks" all he time and eats goldfish like we don't feed him anything else. He has about 5-10 approved foods and if we try to sneak something else on his plate he will say, "no!!!!!!!!!!" We will say, "don't you want to try the strawberry?" and he will say, "no sawburry!" He will eat pizza, chicken nuggets, fries, sometimes grilled cheese, oh and hot dogs are a total hit with him. He might eat mac n cheese if we are lucky. Going to parties and other people's houses is a little difficult at this point.

He asks for "banketscout" all the time. Translation: his blanket and his puppy scout. He loves these two things so much; almost as much as he loved his sippy. He would get a sippy with almond milk at nap time and at bedtime and he was in heaven. But, I decided we needed to take it away. I was terrified of how he would react but it was fine. He asked for it for a couple of days, but that was it. We told him we lost it which was so believable because we lose things so much that "lose" was one of his first words.

Foster loves to carry around little treasures with him. Anything from a little bead to a piece of plastic from one of his toys. He gets very mad when he loses his treasure and usually gets mom and dad to help him find his treasure of the day. He carried a gray piece of plastic from his car ramp around for days. It somehow got named "fing". We would end up searching the house endlessly in search of "fing!". Thank goodness he lost his affection for fing because we were going nuts. Foster loves to play downstairs with daddy. They play cars and balls which involves sitting up to daddy's pool table and moving the balls around. He likes the green ball in particular and always asks for hit.

Foster also asks for "beans". Translation: any candy that reminds him of jelly beans. He will say to us, "more beans?". We can hardly resist his cuteness in these moments. Mommy has a sweet tooth and has a bucket of spice drops in the house that his is on to. These are called beans he really likes the green ones. He likes his green jammies with Micky Mouse on them and asks for them when he goes to nap or to sleep at night. He is not a fan of the times when I have to wash them and they are unavailable.

The other day we were playing with the cars ramp. In order to make it arch the right way you need to put a peace of plastic there. For some reason Foster doesn't like to have whatever we stick in there because as soon as we put it in he takes it out. The other day I put the plastic in and he took it out and then said to me, "STOP IT!" I thought this was pretty funny but tried very hard not to laugh.

We are having camera and computer difficulties lately that will hopefully be rectifyed soon so I can post some of the current pics we have of him. He is SO HARD to take pictures of lately which is driving mom nuts. He is such a moving target that we had to invest in a camera that would take the picture faster after you push the button. We are very slowly figuring out how this new toy works. It is still hard to get a pic but we are hoping the camera will improve the situation somehow.