Learning letters... and saying MUM

Evan has just started recognizing letters. Today we passed a sign that said WAFFLE HOUSE and he said, "Yook, yook! E for Evan on dat sign. Two E's for Evan on dat sign!" Then we passed a car that said SENIORS on the back window, and he said, "Yook! Yook at back of dat car, on dat window, it says E for Evan!!"

He also points out "A for Austin" (his best friend), and knows B, C, S, and U. Sometimes he says things like, "S for snake... ta ta snake." So he doesn't quite get the phonics thing yet. It is funny.

This morning he told me, "Planet goes... planets go around the sun in a circle, yike dis [one hand is a fist and a finger from other hand goes around it]." Then he added, "The sun is very very hot." I asked, "Who told you that?" "Daddy, when we were upstairs in my room, yesterday." (Yesterday could mean any time not in the present.)

Aw, he's learning stuff.

Today we had this discussion:
Me: "Who is your best friend?"
Evan: "Austin."
Me: "Who is your second best friend?"
Evan: "Mommy."
Me: "Ok. Who is your third best friend?
Evan: "Cars."

Isaac is doing great. He is still scooting around, semi-crawling with his tummy rubbing the ground. Although it looks nice in a baby book to say the baby crawled at this extremely early age and isn't he a genius, I really hope he is a late crawler and a late walker. It will make my life so much easier. :)

When Isaac eats in his high chair, he makes his lips form a perfectly straight horizontal line, and while looking at me, says, "mum mum mum." It is terribly cute.

He goes down to sleep so easily. Every 2 1/2 hours I just carry him upstairs, give him his green stuffed hippo, sway back and forth for about 10 seconds, and stick him in his crib. I am so lucky/happy that he goes to sleep quickly on his own. I couldn't watch daycare kids if he needed to be rocked for 10 minutes. He has started waking up at night, though. At three months he started sleeping 11 hours at a time, but now, because he gets too distracted to breastfeed during the day, has started waking every 3-4 hours to breastfeed at night. It is tiring, but I know he'll only be little a little while longer, so I can deal with it. He's worth a little sleep deprivation.