Kanyon age 3: Fun & Games

Kanyon has always been easy to please when it comes to entertaining him. He has been so good playing alone and playing with toys for a LONG TIME. Now that he's a little older, he's not as easy to please, requires a little more attention, and his attention span has taken a hit! All of this just means he's growing up!!

He LOVES to be outside and would rather be there than anywhere else. He loves going for walks in the stroller (I really think that stroller has easily gone a million miles in the last 3 years!), riding his amtryke, swinging in the backyard while we play fetch with Ollie, scooting all over the driveway, front yard, and over to the retaining wall to try and climb it! A while back he saw my watering can outside and proceeded to take it over to the flower bed and pour it over the flowers. This was before I had my spring flowers planted, so it had been a LONG times since he'd seen me do that. It was pretty cute. He has learned to "smell the flowers" (though its more like blowing snot on the flowers). When riding in the stroller or on his bike, he points to our neighbors' driveways so that we will go there so he can knock on the door. (Both of our neighbors have moved so the houses are empty). Speaking of knocking, he loves to knock on doors. He also loves to close doors. He reaches under the door with his fingers to swing it closed then pushes it until its all the way closed. Then he knocks for you to come open it. Fun game....kinda. Kinda not. ****this section keeps showing up huge and I can't get it to shrink to normal size. sorry***

Her he is with my mom the other day about 5 min. after he woke up. Life is good when you have a play slave here to take you outside instantly.

He loves to take a bath and would stay in there for hours if we'd let him. He still loves the recliner and its the first place we go in the mornings when he wakes up. He'll cuddle with us for a minute or two then usually ends up pushing us out of the chair. Thanks. He also likes to sit on the couch and always sits in the same corner and makes sure there are NO pillows. Though this obsession has lessened over the last few months, he still likes to play on the beds. One of our favorite things is when he's playing in a bed or the couch, he will point to a spot on the couch beside him and sign "please". He's asking us to sit by him. Now THAT is hard to resist. Just be prepared if you're ever asked to sit by him that you'd better sit exactly where he's pointing. The boy knows what he wants. I'm not surprised by this, he's always loved being close to people. I always say he loves a warm body. He's not usually too picky about who it is, he just likes to be close to people. He's a people person and I feel like he always will be. I hope he keeps his magnetic, warm, cuddly personality (well, maybe he can outgrow the cuddly thing, but you know what I mean). I really feel like this is one of the best things that GOD created in him.

Taking a bath and playing with his bath crayons. These things are amazing. He loves them so much!

He is 100% into LIGHTS right now. He will find every lamp in the house in a matter of seconds and ask you to turn them on. Take him to a new place and he'll have all the lights spotted in no time. His fingers look so cute flipping the light switches up and down (he now can do it both ways, it took him a while to figure out how to flip them up). When you flip the light on he squeals and shakes with excitement! Any toy that lights up he's going to love and want to look at very closely.

Here he is with a lamp my aunt Nancye gave him when he was tiny. He's been loving it lately.

Speaking of light, my mom taught him "This little light of mine" and he is very good at holding up his light and shining it all around. We're still working on "blowing it out and hiding it under a bushel" part. In fact, he's so good at it that he pretty much holds up his light any time you sing a song. One day in the car "Baby's got her bluejeans on" came on the radio and I said, "oooh Kanyon good song" and started to sing it. He immediately put up his little light! :) It crack us up every time we sing along to a song and look in the rear view mirror and see his little light just a' shinin'!! He really likes music (we give Kasey all the credit for that) and has recently started taking his dancing a little more serious. He used to calmly and gently rock to the beat, not its a more violent rock/head banging/all over JAM!

Fake things are no longer good enough for him. He doesn't want the remote we let him play with that doesn't have any batteries...he wants the one that actually changes the channels. He doesn't want the keyboard from our old computer that we kept just for him...he wants the one attached to the computer. He isn't satisfied with a bowl and spoon and pretend food, he wants food in HIS bowl that he can eat with HIS spoon. He asks for the actual bowl of food I'm feeding him out of, but there is no way I'm giving him that.

He has a few favorite toys: Barrel of Monkeys, his cars (he will now make car sounds and actually roll them instead of sitting there licking the wheels while he spins them), this monkey thing you push and its harms bang a cymbal, putting cars (or anything else) down the his car ramp thing, throwing any ball (he's got quite an arm, but watch out..he's got NO control), anything that lights up and sings. In the car he chews on the strap protector thing that has never stayed on his straps because he pulls them off and chews on them. This has now been replaced by crackers. Whooda thunk it? His very very very very favorite toy is the gear toy that the Corbitts gave him for his first birthday. He will play with this FOREVER and it never gets old. I'm a toy rotater, but this one never gets old, so I don't ever have to rotate it out. Its especially useful when I'm nursing Quinn or something and he's wanting me to play or pick him up. All I have to do is ask him where his gear toy is and he goes to it and plays and plays and plays. He licks it a lot and moves the gears all over without even looking. Pretty funny. He loves anything that spins and he will find a way to make things spin so that he can lick it too. He can find a spinning part on just about anything!

Here is the gear toy/life saver/ be-all-end all toy. Obviously he was eating while he played with it. It may be obvious too that this was taken during lunch after school. You can tell he's SOOOOOOOOOOOO tired! He can barely stay awake after a busy 2 hours at school! :)

We are trying to teach animal sounds to work on sounds for his language development. He copies these sounds:-roar, bark, meow, ssssssss, horse (I don't know how to spell the sound that you make when you blow out like a horse), The lion's roar was his first sound and when he plays with his lion he makes the sound a lot. Unfortunately he also makes that sound when he plays with his horse. Oh well.

He gives high fives now (along with the low 5) and thinks its HILARIOUS when you give him 5!

He LOVES LOVES LOVES water and anything to do with it. I really really really really really hope he can learn to swim someday.

His favorite person in the world is Daddy and his least favorite is probably Quinn. I'm just bein' honest here. I'm sure that will change, but for now he's not too high on the baby brother thing.

He loves it when he gets to trot on his horse during therapy and you can usually hear his happy laugh all the way across the arena.

He has the most contagious laugh I've ever heard and I am so glad I get to hear it. He's full of fun and despite his current "stage" of behavior, I am having a blast being his mommy! Its fun for me to record these things he loves at this age so that I can remember them, maybe not as fun for my readers, but if you made it this far, I'm impressed.