Jeremy Movies update

Life has been as busy as ever, so here are a couple of movies, one several months old, but a goodie. Jeremy has had a verbal explosion over the last two months and now knows in the neighborhood of probably 300 words (and about 100 signs). We stopped counting over a month ago when we literally couldn't keep up anymore; it seems as though he's learning about 5 new words a day. Some recent ones are "bird house", "stories", and "cracker" (he used to only sign that one). he's also saying sentences now, such as, "Mama, strawberries more cut please?" It's getting late, so I'll upload my two movies and get to bed.

Here is a movie about Jeremy at the Farmer's Market last summer- swooning over a kitty and enjoying some live music: Click HERE:http://ourmedia.org/node/487155

Jeremy is quite obsessed with violins, incidentally. Has been for several months now- gets very excited when he sees a picture of one, hears one on the radio, etc. He mimes playing one making a high-pitched sound like a squeeky violin. The ultimate was when Mama found a YouTube video of Elmo playing a violin! He loves violin so much, that we spent over 20 minutes the other night looking at and talking about one page in one of his board books that has a photo of a violin in it. We video taped about 15 minutes of it just to document it- I'm not uploading it because it is pretty boring to most folks! Maybe I'll edit it down though- is pretty funny how excited he is about it.

Here is a video of Jeremy saying that he is "two" (even though he is one and a half now). He is starting to count- can count to 8 on occasion! Click HERE: http://ourmedia.org/node/487156

Jeremy the artist

One of Jeremy's favorite things to do is to draw with 'cran' (crayons) in the tub (special ones for the purpose).  This time, we really let him go at it...

In other news, Jeremy's verbal development has really been exploding of late; we count at least 135 spoken words now, and over 65 signed words. There is a new word (or two, or three) a day. Of course, this doesn't hold a candle to some of his amazing friends (e.g. Brayden with over 300 words and sentences, just two months older), but it's enough to impress us!

Also, Jeremy went to his first stock show today to watch his friend Ari win FIRST PLACE in the "small fry" division of the Western Stock Show Fiddle Contest (click here for the posting from last year, when he won second place). Jeremy sat through over an hour of live fiddling, mesmerized, clapping when appropriate. The boy certainly loves music!

Finally, we have a few more cute videos to share: Here's Jeremy giving his cat, Lincoln a big hug (note that he says, "hug" right at the beginning): http://www.ourmedia.org/ia/details/ASimonJeremylovesLincoln/
And here's another of him discovering a new way to eat Annie's cheese shells (a kind of mac n cheese): http://www.ourmedia.org/ia/details/ASimonJeremyeatscheeseshells/