Brothers

Junior is learning so many things at preschool. They started the alphabet weeks after winter break. Each week they have a new "letter of the week". This basically means that they learn to recognize different words that start with that letter, and bring an item on their sharing day that starts with that letter. Junior is getting pretty good at sounding out which letter a words starts with.
DT is trying to participate with the alphabet too, but he doesn't quite grasp the concept of letters yet. He thinks every letter is a "B". He is getting better at communicating though. If he wants something that Junior has, then DT will say "too!" (meaning "me too"). He can say "who's that?" or "that one" and point to the object or person.
Junior and DT's new favorite thing to do with Mommy after she gets home from work is color. Junior has gotten quite good and coloring. DT is still mostly scribbling or lining up the crayons and pretending they are trains.
It is fun to watch the two interacting with each other. They get into fights of course, but they also try to make each other feel better if the other one is sad. DT will run over to give Junior a hug and kiss if he is crying and upset. Junior will say that he feels lonely if DT does not play with him or if DT is not sleeping in the same room with him. They are both usually very good about sharing with each other, whether it is crayons, trains, legos, strawberries or cookies.
Junior can recite books after we've read them a few times. The first time he did that was with The Giving Tree. Another favorite of his is one of the Thomas the Train library books.
DT's favorite color is "Ohnj" or orange. He loves the orange crayon, his orange shoes, and his orange shirts.

Sharing a seat on Caltrain

Poor DT (at 20 months)

DT has not yet learned how to control his excitement. Every time he runs too much after eating, he will puke everything up. He doesn't quite understand that one thing is related to the other, so he keeps running around after every meal.

He sort of gets things, but not fully. For example, he knows that certain things can be loud, like the train or sometimes the music, so he will try to plug his ears. The only problem is that he sticks his fingers at the top of his ear and completely misses the ear canal.

He loves gymboree. He loves running around and climbing things. He loves Gymbo the clown and likes to go hug him when he's out. There is a song that we dance to at the end of every class, and DT knows how to react to all the parts to the song, including the hug, peekaboo and sleep. Before we leave, the teacher will tell the kids to march to get stamps. DT tries his best to march but it ends up being more like a lopsided stomping.

He is still pretty chubby and bald. Most people think he is much younger than his actual age. One Chinese waitress from dimsum asked us if he had turned 1 yet.