New Supplies!

My mom and sister gave me some cash in lieu of Easter candy this year, which made my week. After paying for a load of groceries and filling up the car with gas, I headed to Michael's and the dollar store and dropped a hundred bucks on cool stuff for Henry. We got a ton of craft supplies that I'm trying to find places for right now. Henry has a new favorite word: "beat" for paint.

The Words He Says

Here are all that I can think of at the moment:
Mama (for his mom and his grandma)
Daddy
Aunt Sarah
Mike
Baby (to refer to his cousin, any kid, or his yogurt, which has a baby on the package)
Bop (Grandpa)
Amy (for Trouwbottom, after she leaves he will point to where she was or the toys they played with and repeat her name, like he's asking when she'll come back)
Hat
Light
Ball
More
Milk
Bar (cereal bar)
Fry
Elmo
Toooo-toooo (train noise when he sees Thomas the train)
Emmy (for Emily the train)
Abby
A-Z (but says "ess" for C, and makes the sounds instead of saying the name for some)
1-9
Brown
Yellow
Pink
Purple
Windy
Rain
Duck ("Duts")
Hoop (For basketball hoop)
Bob (for veggie tales)
Oval
Diamond
Boat
Truck
Car
Remote
Robot
Dog
Woof
Sheep
Baa
Owl
Pig
Lion
Frog
Cup
Pop (for Hop on Pop, and when he sees a lolly pop)
Cat ("at") (for cats and for Cat in the Hat)
BUG (his favorite right now)
Oh No
No
Yeah
Man (like "oh man...")
Uh-Oh
Up (also uses for open)
Down (also uses for close)
Walk (to go outside)
Book
Boom (for purposely falling down)
Bunny (actually says money)
Ba-Ba (hopefully a thing of the past soon)
Nose
Eye
Eyebrow
Elbow
Knee
Mouth
Brush

These are the ones he uses consistently right now, although he recognizes many more. If you show him a picture and ask him to point out the _________, he can easily do so.

Why Does My Baby Need His Own Blog?

I got some books on homeschooling from my local library and have been devouring them like cans of diet coke. I know it's early to be thinking about Henry going to school, but when you think about it, we are sort of home schooling right now anyway. With babies, almost everything they do is about learning. When Henry plays with toys, or the vacuum cleaner, or a Brita filter he finds under the sink (for a whole week), it's really all just education for him.

So in most of the homeschooling books they talk about how to document your learning, and many kids who are homeschooled create journals or "lapbooks" about the different subjects they study. This way they have a record of their achievements and can look back at them later for reference. Well I started thinking. How can I keep a record of Henry's educational development for reference and for my own sentimental reasons without creating more clutter? A Henry blog, of course. This way I can keep track of all the things that only a mother really cares about and still keep my personal blog for reflecting on other areas of my life.

So here it is, Henry's Learning Blog.

I hope to use it now to keep track of milestones, and later to plan out how to educate him more formally, then someday as a place for Henry to add his own acquired knowledge.