Liam's Marvels

Liam has developed exponentially more than we had expected in the past 2 months. His talking has increased as has his phrases. Yesterday Jay asked him how old he would be on his birthday and for the first time he said, "Three." People at the grocery store just laughed. Then a man at the register bought him a pack of peanut M&Ms because he stopped crying when he saw them from a fall he'd just taken off the shopping cart.

Simple things I have taken pleasure to lately:

• Watching Liam in the 16 cubic yards of dirt dumped on our driveway the other day. He climbed it, played on it, threw dirt and peed on it.
• Watching Liam put on gloves and help daddy put in yard waste into a bucket on a day of weeding.
• Watching Liam put rocks into a red bucket and carry it (as heavy as it was) to dump it far quicker than it took to put them in there and carry it off of the next door neighbor's dock.
• Taking Liam to the bathroom knowing that he will be fully potty trained soon. He's done so well with this new elemental milestone.
• Transitioning him to his big boy bed at 2 1/2 very easily.
• His playing with school friends very well and partaking of the activities, including at their birthday parties. His social skills have increased tremendously this past month, far more than I had expected. The other day he played at Sue's house on the playset and he was so proud of all the things he did (climbing on the rock wall, going up on the slide, etc.) saying "Ta-daa, I did it, horay for me!" over and over. When Sophia got there he was happy and very playful with her.
  
• His independence in "I do it myself" for everything. Even if it takes longer to accomplish a task.
• His helping me wash his hair completely under the shower.
• His discovering his sexual orientation different from girls. He's been obsessed lately by "boobies" telling me all the time that I have some. Then the other day he started naming the girls in his class and asking me if they had "boobies." When he got to Karlee Beth he said, "I like Karlee a lot mommy." I couldn't believe it. I've never even seen him with her or heard him talk about the kids in his class. Now he knows them all by name and talks about them at home.
• He peed on his teacher Amber on Friday by accident.