The Little guy

He is a bundle of energy, and incredibly headstrong. He seems to not even realize that he's thirsty at times. He takes a 25 ug pill of throxin, and we mix it into his milk or juice. He loves salty things, chips, and chicken; so, to kind of get him to drink his juice or his milk, I give him chips, so he gets thirsty. When he gets thirsty enough, he drinks the fluid with his medicine. Sometimes, though, he gets thirsty, and I think it must hurt him, because he starts to scream, and he seems to forget that the solution is to drink the fluid. If I try to stick the bottle into his mouth, he resists, and sometimes even tosses the bottle. If I tease him with the bottle, I often have a better shot at getting him to drink, because at some point he realizes that he is thirsty and he grabs the bottle. Lately, he has taken to rearranging our kitchen to the chagrin of my wife (and me). When we aren't looking, he will push a chair towards the kitchen counters, climbs on them to reach the cupboards, then he goes to great lengths to move the plates and things in the cupboards from one shelf to another. He is very careful, almost nothing gets dropped (in the last three weeks of this behavior he dropped exactly one coffee mug, and the handle broke, it just happened to be my wife's favorite, I just ordered two coffee mugs to replace it). He has a play school, and a farm with little people and animal toys. The toys came with a dvd which had them animated. He will sit quietly and watch this dvd for up to about half an hour. Well, since he was about ten months old, I have been playing abc songs and counting songs to him, there is wealth of them on You Tube, and lately he finds these tiresome. So, we have progressed, his interest seems to be in combined sounds and letters and in activities and actions of cartoon characters. I tried some of the Gumby cartoons which are on You Tube, he seems to like these too. The way I define like, is he will sit and focus on the material. Marginal liking is when he will not sit still, but will periodically return to see what is going on, and no longer liking is when he leaves and does not return to see what is happening. We have a video, which did the abcs phonetically, he listened to that for about half a year, and now when it comes on, if he doesn't leave he has a tantrum (lies on the floor kicking the floor). He seems to know his letters, he says them on sight for me and his mother. So, as I said, we are up to letter sounds and combining them on sight. He seemed to stay focused the last time we tried it, which was yesterday. More will come today, I hope. It's kind of amazing, he is almost 27 months, he doesn't exactly talk yet, but he almost seems ready to read. Today, his mom, him and I will go to the zoo. The petting zoo is a great thing, you buy these food pellets for half a buck, and they have these miniature goats, who want the food, so I sprinkle the pellets around him, and the little goats mob him. He is not afraid of them, and he seems to enjoy their attention. When he gets a little restive with the experience, we leave. This zoo has a small mammal exhibit, in which the second or third enclosure, is mercats behind a glass. When the little guy sees these animals, he tries to pet them through the glass, and he talks to them too. Those are all the small mammals he wants to see, he isn't particularly interested in monkeys or rats or squirrels. This zoo has an extensive aquarium, and the little guy likes to walk through that, he likes the area of the penguins, but not when they are in the water. My purpose at the zoo, is to motivate him to stay active and walking, after about an hour, he is usually done. We tried a merry-go-round, on the fourth spin, he had had enough. The operator was very gracious, and allowed us to get off. Every day is an adventure with the little guy.