Brett is 2.5!

Brett is 2.5! One thing that amazes me about Brett is he seems to be able to see outside himself more than you would expect from a two year old boy. He really does not like to hear his brother or sister cry and often tries to help them when they are upset. For example, Reggie always gets a cup of milk when he gets up from his nap. I usually get it ready and set it on his high chair a few minutes beforehand. Lately, as soon as Brett hears Reggie, often before I do, he takes the cup and gives it to Reggie in his crib. Something else I have noticed with Brett is his developing race awareness. With his limited speech, when he sees a picture of a white baby, he will say "Lydia", and when he sees a picture of a black baby, he says "Reggie".

We are encouraged that over the last couple months Brett has made progress in his speech development. He is pretty consistently responding with "yes" and "no", using more nouns, and will occasionally put a couple words together.

Brett loves to help in the kitchen, water the flowers (or anything else where water is involved), read books, do puzzles, crafts and play dough, go for walks or "ride" his trike, go to playgrounds, bubbles, and sidewalk chalk.

Brett is growing up so fast! While he spends a great deal of his day trying my patience, he is a little boy full of ideas and energy. We are blessed to have such a clever and gentle-spirited son!