. VG .: Dude our precocious little man

As I have just done a bit of a recap on our little Miss who is full of personality and expression, here is my shout out to Dude. He is such a sweet big brother first and foremost. He loves his sister so much, even when she intentionally bullies him. She knows that he likes things a particular way, and if she goes and messes with it just a bit she knows that it will push his buttons... and he is working on not flipping out every time it happens. But, I guess that is what brothers and sisters do.

As a 3 year old he could potentially start Preschool in the fall... which we aren't doing. We are still going ahead with our plan to homeschool, so we have been doing that all along. Right now we are doing Spanish songs to learn days of the week, months, numbers, alphabet and other fun songs in Spanish. HE LOVES IT. And its really adorable to hear him sing along with it too. Lucy is reaping the benefit of him learning it so early as she is learning and hearing it as well... little kid voice speaking in a foreign language is amazingly heart meltingly cute.

A gem that Gaetan taught him while they were in the tub is the idea of decanting and what a meniscus is. Now, I'm not sure about you but most 3 year olds don't say things like, "Look Momma! I'm decanting!" Let the pigeon holing commence! haha. Along with other science things we've been doing is the idea of conservation, how temperature affects different substances (such as water, can be a solid, liquid or gas) and gravity. He is so curious and asks a lot of questions and its so nice to be able to explain things to him. :) And he seems like he's getting it too!

Showing us how he decants

With math, he is starting to really like numbers almost as much as he likes letters. He is getting really good at his addition, and we are working on subtraction. He sandbags though... we can ask him questions and he'll tell us he doesn't know but then the other day he said, "Pop! What's 5+4?" as he is holding up 9 fingers...

With English of course there is the never ending spelling that goes on... but he is really getting the idea of words that rhythm and alliterations. He can read all the books that we get from the library and we often hear him reading to his pals and to Lucy. He loves showing her how things work... like puzzles or other things that involve dexterity. He loves helping her color and pick out just the right colors :)

He loves being my little helper too. As I mentioned before our dryer had broken so when we finally got it fixed I had a lot of laundry to do. And, I admit that I didn't fold each load as they came out of the dryer, so I waited until I had this huge mound on our bedroom floor to get started on sorting, folding and all that and he was already in our room and had picked out the majority of his clothes and they were folded, and was starting on folding Lucy's! It was pretty amazing really. He also really likes to help me cook/bake which I love. :) There are a few things that he still needs help with, but overall I can tell him that I need him to fill a certain measurement up and I know that he can do it. :) He likes to help me clean in any way possible... mostly putting chairs back after vacuuming and helping me get the vacuum cleaner out and put away.

Onto folding his sisters clothes

Helping Momma with some soup!

He is quite the remarkable little man. And, honestly, nothing gets past him. He remembers things that I didn't even know kids that age could remember! He has such a big heart for his family it makes this Momma's heart happy. I hope that he always continues on his convictions and doesn't care what others think about him or what makes him happy. I love you little man. You make me very proud.