What's Going on with Fenn?

On the 6th of this month, Fenn went in for his 2 Year Visit with his Pediatrician.
These are his stats at 2 Years Old (really 25 months):
Weight: 28 lbs. 10 oz. (55th %)
Length: 35.75" (85th %)
Head: 49.5 cm (70th %)

Compare this to his stats at 18 Months Old:
Weight: 26 lbs. 11 oz. (59th %)
Length: 33" (67th %)
Head: 48.4 cm (66th %)

If you'll notice, he's undergone quite a growth spurt since June.  He grew almost 3 inches in 7 months and is now in the 85th percentile!  Here's some more stuff about what's going on with Fenn these days:

:: He has known his colors for several months now... and I mean all of them.  Even shades of a color {like light blue vs. dark blue}.  Blue is 'boo', orange is now 'oh wange' (quite an improvement from 'onnkph' from a few months ago), green is 'geen', purple is 'puh puhl'.

:: He knows many of his shapes, including pentagon, oval, rectangle, and diamond.

:: He knows his right from his left... most of the time.

:: He likes saying the blessing before meals.  His version is "God is great, God is good, let us thank him for our food... Amen!"

:: He regularly exclaims "I did it" or "I made that" in reference to something he drew, colored, or made at school.

:: He loves to color and play with Play-Doh.

:: A favorite thing to do at the moment is to move piles of toys (cars, trucks, airplanes, stuffed animals) from one room to another or from one spot to another spot.  Then he'll move them again.  In December, he moved every single ball out of his inflatable castle ball pit to his pop-up tent... one at a time.  I was exhausted just watching him.  But at least it kept him occupied for a while and all I had to do was sit there and watch.  Hey, I'll take a break anyway I can get it!

:: Which brings me to his love of playing with all things 'transportation' related:  cars, trucks, airplanes, tractors, trains, etc.

:: He is becoming more and more independent these days.  Sometimes he won't let us read a book to him.  He'll take it and say, "I read it."  Then he'll sit down with it and start flipping through the pages, talking about what he sees on each page.  He has also started picking out his clothes or his shoes occasionally.  He even tries to dress himself sometimes, mostly limited to pulling up his pants or putting on his jacket or shoes.  And, he likes to brush his teeth himself.  Oh, and he likes to climb up into his high chair and carseat himself.  We actually bought him a booster seat to use at the table, but he still prefers to sit in the high chair (which we need for Boone) for some strange reason.

:: We started taking him to The Little Gym on Wednesday nights back in November.  That is by far one of his favorite things to do ever!  Sometimes when he wakes up, the first thing he says is "Fenn go to Little Gym".  They were closed for 2 weeks over the holidays and he almost drove us crazy talking about going again.

:: He loves to sing and knows several songs.  Over the holidays, his favorites were 'Jingle Bells', 'Frosty the Snowman', and 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town'.  Then daddy made up a song about Little Gym to the tune of Jingle Bells (Little Gym, Little Gym, we like Little Gym.  We get to tum-ble and do somersaults, Hey!...).  Now he sings that all the time, and he sometimes blends together the words from both songs.  Poor kid... he's going to be so confused about what the real words are to so many songs because his daddy is constantly making up new words to common tunes.

:: His favorite shows are Little Einsteins, Barney and Friends, and a new one called Chuggington.

:: Some favorite books at the moment are Raindrop, Plop, Momma, Will You?, Llama Llama Misses Momma, Little Loon and Papa, Your Kind of Mommy, and My First Read and Learn Bible.  Ironically, most of those books were sent to Fenn courtesy of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, an awesome program we have here in Knoxville that sends a book to each child every month from birth to age 5.  All you have to do is sign them up for the program.

:: And he has recently started asking questions like "What that?", "What are you doing?" and "Where did ____ go?"  {A recent example of that last one occurred when we got to The Little Gym one night and the first thing he said was, "Where rock wall go?"  They change out the equipment and props each week and he doesn't understand why the rock wall is not always out.}

Sorry for the multitude of bullet points.  If I were a better writer, I would have figured out how to weave all of that into a cute and clever little story.