We are loving this fall weather and have been spending a lot of time outside. Spencer loves the outdoors and would be happy to play outside all day! We spent some time out in the front yard tonight until it got too dark.
Spencer waiting for daddy to kick the ball to him.
Bugs are one of Spencer's favorite things right now. He always has to stop when he sees a bug. And usually he tries to pick it up or stop it from crawling away. He had a wasp cornered on the back porch one day last week! He kept laughing and jumping up and down so I went over there and figured out what he was doing. That was the end of playing on the back porch! I hate wasps!
I tried to get a good picture of him in his cute new shirt but that is a very difficult thing to do. Usually when I pull the camera out he just wants to hold the camera and watch the videos and look at the pictures of the "baby". I think he knows it's pictures of him but he always says baby when he sees himself on the camera. :) The only way I could get him to hold still and not take the camera away from me was to give him another camera. And then it was impossible to get him to look at me. So this is as good as it's gonna get.
Spencer is learning new words and new things every day! Usually when I get home from work I feel like he has gotten so much bigger because he's saying new words and doing new things. He is definitely into doing things himself and doing it his way. He refuses to sit in his booster seat at meals. Which makes things difficult because when he sits in a big boy chair he can get down and run around instead of eat. He loves to be outside and to read stories. We've learned a lot of new words from reading stories! He is also getting pretty good at recognizing letters. He has some foam bathtub letters and numbers that has helped with this. This morning he was behind me while I was picking something up off the floor and started pointing out some of the letters on the back of my shirt. He also loves to count and usually starts with the number three for some reason. Some of his favorite foods right now are yogurt, bacon, ham, hot dogs, pretzels, cheese, and strawberries. Those are a few things that if you put in front of him he will usually always eat! He also of course loves anything sweet. He loves watching Thomas the train and playing with his train tracks. He's finally figured out how to put the tracks together too, so he's good at helping daddy create some pretty cool tracks. Spencer also loves to jump. He jumps off of things, jumps up and down. He also loves to just run around. The other morning we went to the duck pond with my mom to go on a walk. He was not happy about being pushed in his stroller. So I let him out and he ran for about half of our little lap! He's got quite a bit of endurance. Now we'll just have to work on his speed. :)
Here are just a few funny videos we've gotten of Spencer lately. Spencer loves popcorn! We were eating some one Sunday evening and Spencer loved feeding daddy some popcorn while he was talking to his family on the phone.
Bryce was throwing some pillows at Spencer one night. I don't know why he loves to do this so much...I guess just to toughen him up or something. :) Anyway, we found out that Spencer will be a good soccer or basketball player because he is a huge flopper! Bryce would hit him with the pillow and a few seconds later he would fall down onto his tummy. I think he just really loves falling down. His favorite game is ring around the rosies.
