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>Brothers September 22, 2010
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Right now Evan and Alec are very different people. Evan is mastering his fine motor skills and even writing, coloring mostly inside the lines and doing dot to dots.
Alec is still trying to master his gross motor skills. His arms are getting fairly accurate these days. And he is starting the very basics of fine motor skills. He opens and closes his little hands over and over again on anything he touches, blankets, toys, my side, my face…kind of scratching it to check it out.
Here he is trying to focus enough to get his arms to cooperate and get the toy off the table. He did manage to grab my soup at lunch the other day…we’ll have to be more careful.
But they will always be brothers…no matter their differences.
>New Skills and Interests August 24, 2010
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Before Alec was born Evan had discovered legos in a big way. He got a set of the “little blocks” for Christmas and then he got sets for his birthday, for becoming a big brother and lots of other reasons. We liked having legos around almost as much as Evan did. They would keep him occupied for so long. He would even just read the instruction books over and over, turning the pages saying “bigger and bigger and bigger” as he pointed to each picture. Hopefully he’ll come back to the bricks again and again over the years but he’s just not into them right now.
Now, the “in” thing is puzzles. Lots and lots of puzzles. It took a little bit of coaching and doing them with him but now he can do all the puzzles you see here on his own.
Alec is also acquiring new skills. It seems that after a visit from his slightly older cousin Joel, he thought batting at and grabbing toys looked like fun. So, he’s been practicing. He does this intensely every morning, early in the morning.
I’ve also noticed that often now when he’s acting cranky he’s just bored. If we go outside or walk around the house he’s much more content then to be sitting in the living room or dining room AGAIN.
