Joshi watching Sesame Street

http://youtu.be/DhF013F04ck

2 Years Old!

My dearest sweet Joshua,

You are two years old and you are wise, smart and capable beyond your two little years. Sometimes I am truly astounded by your abilities and your smarts. Sometimes, I really wonder who you are and where the heck you came from: like who is this little person living in my house – trying to run it? The last two months of your life have seen leaps and bounds in your development.

You finally started calling yourself by name 'Josha' end of January. And towards the end of February you started being able to call Leo by his name – with an American pronunciation – which is just the mispronunciation of the German : )

 
Your birthday celebration was very low key. We had a small party here. Just the family. Mommy baked you a chocolate cake which you were very excited about and definitely ate with gusto. And you were able to comprehend the idea of presents this time around. You understood that presents wrapped up meant cool toys and stuff inside and happily tore into one after then next. You got a piggy bank, a cool little car (from Leo) an aquadoodle. Your main presents from mama and papa was a car set that have car parts for a race car and a truck and a tool for putting them together and taking them apart.
A few days later you got your first bike - a balance bike. You were excited to see it and hopped right on it, but it was not as easy to do as you expected and it fell over a couple of times - which deterred you from trying again. We will put it away for a while and reintroduce it a little later. 

Here are some pics
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Your development in the last few months have been amazing. You started recognizing numbers end of February. You pointed to the number 8 on the television screen in a telephone number flashed on the screen and surprised me that you already know to recognize numbers. I then took a clock and you pointed out the numbers 8, 3, 6 and 7 easily. The others you didn't know yet. But really amazing for 23 months old!

At the beginning of March you started saying three word sentences in English. Such as: Mama come, sit... No see sun. You can also recognize your name in writing.Surprising at this age already. You recongize the letters M and D as well as A.

One thing you do that cracks me up is you make this face....see photo above....your eyes get really big and silly and you open your mouth all the way up. I always laugh hysterically which you love and it makes you do more.


I know every Mama thinks there little one is the best ever and the smartest ever, but you really are!
Lots of love, Your adoring mother

Joshi and his numbers

Joshi is 2 years and one month old and he can already read all numbers 1 to 10 . He counts to 8 quite regularly but he skips over four and nine often .
Sometimes, I will overhear him counting to himself in a mix of German and English....fünf, sechs, seven eight.... 

He also likes letters and always asks me to sing him the abc's . He can already recognize the letters A, F and M all over.
And is already showing interest in reading