Ephram at 20 Months

New Skills

At 20 months Ephram was busy showing off new talents every day.

This is an example of multitasking.

Not only can he sneak his sippy cup out of the kitchen...

(And run faster than Mom to do it)

But he can also slip into Daddy's shoes and run some more...

All before Mommy catches him.

So I figured I might as well go grab the camera and give him more time to be gleeful about it all.

During this month he also started to really appreciate coloring.

And would carefully choose a color, all by himself and scribble with it a bit.

All while hamming it up for the ever-present camera.

I also stopped breaking up his food this month, as he finally began taking relatively small bites.

This, of course, led to more messiness... here, after eating a chocolate chip cookie.

It turns out he doesn't like to be messy.

He actually cried hysterically over this mess.

So his new eating freedom was closely followed by another skill...

Independent use of a napkin.  

Car playing evolved this month.  

No longer could we just drive the cars around and crash them.

Now they all needed to be lined up before and after driving.

And heaven help him that moves a car out of line-up.

His love of books, absent for a few months, returned in a big way.

He started copying the rest of the family by picking a book to read,

Laying down on the floor, and reading it above his head.

And then he started loading books into a basket, 

Carrying them to a destination,

Where he would settle down to read for awhile.

And by awhile, I really mean it.

This was probably his longest attention span activity.

He could read for a good 20 minutes.

But my favorite new part of his love of reading?

He started pointing out the pictures to whoever was around, and "reading" the book for an audience.

(Nevermind that you're supposed to read from left to right or front to back, right?)

So much fun to watch him grow!