2 1/2 already!

On April 20th Johnny was 2 1/2 years old! Here's a few things about Johnny right now:

• He had an extremely impressive vocabulary and knowledge of grammar, often surprising me.
  
• He can sing the entire alphabet and can identify roughly half the letters.
• He weighs 30.5 pounds, and is shorter than most of his peers.
• He loves helping around the house with chores.
• He goes to bed around 8 and wakes up around 7. He always takes his blanket and orange teddy bear to bed.
  
• He takes a 2 hour nap every afternoon.
• He's in a big-boy bed and has adjusted fully to that change.
• He understands things that are meant to be comical, such as seeing a picture of a baby pushing a mommy in a stroller - he laughed and said, that's funny!
• He likes running around the track at the gym with mommy.
• He likes to play around with identities, such as pretending he's Aunt Whitney and I'm Grandpa Wilbur. The characters are constantly changing.
• He loves "driving" the cars, especially Grandpa's Jeep.
• He sings along to numerous songs, and loves dancing with me to the radio.
• Some of his favorite songs in Nursery: The Wise Man, 5 Little Monkeys, I am a Child of God, 5 Little Ducks, and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
• He's very obedient with time-out and goes without any trouble.
• Still doesn't watch much TV or movies. Movies he does like: Jungle Book, Finding Nemo, Charlotte's Web, and Winnie the Pooh.
• He's getting tired of having to sit in his booster chair, and wants to sit in the normal chairs.
• He counts 1-11, then 13, then 16. Then lots of random -teen numbers.
  
• He loves playing at both Grandparents' homes.
• When he goes to bed every night he waits til I'm in the kitchen with the door shut then yells, "Love You! Goodnight!"
• He can say his own prayer on the food, and prayer at bedtime. But I often help him to increase the variety.
• He holds his pencil/pen/crayon the correct way.
• He's mostly right handed.
• We haven't started potty training, but talk about it often.
• Working on some of his sounds, like F.
• He has an extremely happy disposition, is a generally well-behaved child, and makes my job so fun!