Oh Be Careful Child Caretakers What You Do!

(In case you couldn't tell, the above is supposed to be sung to the tune of "oh be careful little eyes what you see") ;-)

I'm feeling bloggy today...just posted one about a good book, this one will be about "my" boys, and then I think there's going to be another one about this morning and/or the other parts of my life :)

I thought of this title yesterday while I was working at my nanny job. And it's so true!!! Little Christopher (turned 2 a couple months ago) mimics just about everything I do. Here's proof:

• A couple weeks ago, I sat down cross-legged on the floor to put his shoes on. He promptly used his hands to get his legs into the same position as mine :D I had to straighten out my legs so that he would straighten out his so I could get his shoes on! To this day, whenever we sit down on the floor, he crosses his legs - even if I don't :)
• I have an exercise I do to help rehab my back after a car accident several months ago. It involves standing with my knees bent and my back up against a wall, putting my arms up against the wall and then sliding them down the wall. Whenever I do it, Christopher watches very carefully and then says "my turn!" and stands up against the wall and tries to do it. And he's getting better at doing what he sees me doing!
• When we played with play dough, he was doing his best to do the same things to his that I did to mine! If I rolled it in a ball, he tried to do the same. If I put it on the table and started rolling it into a long string, he did too. If I squashed mine, he did the same. You get the idea.
• He also tries to mimic everything that Brian (just turned 6) does. This sometimes causes problems :/

Christopher is also one of the most observant little 2-year-olds I've ever seen! I wrote about how he noticed my shoes back on June 15th. Well, this week I got a new pair of tennis shoes, so when he saw them he was like "Esther's shoes!" and I said "yes, I got new shoes." One day I wore a yellow shirt that has hummingbirds. I have another yellow shirt (about the same color) that has pictures of lots of different birds, so when I got in the car and he saw my yellow shirt he said "birds!" Later, when we were playing with play dough, he said he was going to make a bird and he pointed to my shirt :) Isn't he adorable??? :D

Now that he's not in school, he seems to be forgetting some of his colors and shapes :/ So I obviously need to work on those more with him! He's really good at remembering songs though! He can sing the ABC song pretty much by himself, and he knows the Eensy Weensy Spider, Old MacDonald had a Farm, the Wheels on the Bus, Jesus Loves Me, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Head Shoulders Knees and Toes :D

I think it's so funny how little kids breathe really hard through their mouth when they're concentrating on something ;-) Just thought I'd mention that.

There's so many other little things I could say about Christopher. He's just really cute :)

Brian has been doing a field-trip program through his school last week and he'll be doing it next week too. So that means I don't get to see him much :(