Joachim has a very generous heart. He shares his most favorite things with me and his buddies, I figured out that it brings him great satisfaction to share because he feels validated in his pleasure of the item. I realized this when he got offended that I turned down a lick of a lollipop he was savoring. Here he's sharing half a jelly bean vitamin with rabbit. For days in a row he'd wake up, go into the living room and exclaim, "Rabbit is still eating his jelly bean, that must be a very tasty jelly bean rabbit."
In this picture Joachim spelled "vitamin" for rabbit. He knows his letter sounds so he accurately started off with "v" then he just kept adding letters and then for some reason he went back and put a "k" at the beginning. He'd stand back satisfied and admiring his word. It's a bit of a parenting conundrum for me weather I should say, "Oh wow, what a nice word you spelled," thus reinforcing a fib of sorts or to point out that "vitamin" is actually spelled with a lot fewer letters. I usually figure it can't hurt to indulge his satisfaction.
Here Joachim reads to Dori, his night light fish that someone gave him at a yard sale. All of his neat toys and it never ceases to surprise me which ones become the favorites. Who would have thought it'd be a plastic fish with a cord that I am constantly rewinding and tucking into a lightbulb hole.And a funny antidote from his trip to the hardware store with Ben. I've heard lots of mom's tell funny stories about their children's observations and I wondered if Joachim would ever be clever enough to make some of his own. Just recently his unique logic has blossomed.
There's a lot of taxidermy at our hardware store and they were talking about the different animals when they got to the moose antlers. Ben said, "Those are moose antlers," and Joachim responded, "Those antlers are missing their moose."
