Conjugating Verbs

I noticed Henry conjugating (ok really just using more than 1 tense) a couple of verbs in the last couple of days.

First, he enjoys playing with some pretend cookies and cooking them. He calls them 'tookies' since he can't get a good 'k' sound. He will bring me his tray of 'tookies' and ask me to 'took' them and has enjoyed this game for some time. Yesterday, when the cookies where in the pretend oven he said they were 'tookieing.' As in the food is cooking. I thought it was interesting that he used a another form of cook.

Today, he pointed to the bike my Aunt had ridden when she was here a couple of weeks ago and said 'Nonni rode.' 'Ride' is a stable of his vocubulary, but this is the first I heard the past tense. He had pointed the bike before and said 'Nonni's bike' and 'Nonni ride.' This evening is the first I heard of the past tense.

He has realized that the same word changes form and can be used in different ways.

Harmonic and Drum

Just the other day Henry rediscovered his harmonic. Now he has the ability to blow very well so, this toy is lots of fun. He really enjoys playing it while I drum the little boat he has for a bath toy. He is also willing to switch rolls and be the drummer. He loves to drum a variety of things. The table being quite popular. He also likes to drum his feet. He will say drum or drum feet and then he will do just that. It is neat how he is exploring sound and music.

Now for a demonstration. Enjoy our One Man Band.

Cherries

We have a nice little cherry tree right outside our house and this year we made great use of it. Every spring it has some sour cherries. This year, it was a really good harvest. Henry enjoyed climbing the ladder to help Daniel pick cherries.


After picking the cherries, Daniel pitted them with Henry's help. We made two delicious cherry crumbles and cherry jam. Both turned out quite well and we look forward to enjoying the jam throughout the year.

Farmer

We visited Henry's Mamu's farm in southern Illinois not too long ago and Henry was in heaven. He enjoyed exploring and discovering the farm. He enjoyed Mulberries off the tree with mamu and papu. Normally he does not each much fruit, but he loved Mulberries and would turn himself and Mamu purple enjoying them. He would have eaten them until he was sick I think.
He liked the animals too. He wanted us to feed the chickens grass since he did not want to get too close to them. He also liked watching the pigs and the beautiful horse. They were all a little big and he was a little apprehensive about getting too close, but he wanted to watch them.



However, his favorite was the tractor. He loved sitting on the tractor and pushing buttons, moving different sticks and turning the steering wheel. He would have played on it for hours. However, once the tractor was turned on, he would back off and would just watch. He is frightened of the tractors when they are running. I think they are just too loud for him. He enjoyed watching the tractor going back and forth as Alex and Bobbi (the farmers) tetted and baled the hale. He just refused all offers of tractor rides. Now when looking at pictures of tractors, he says 'Alex Tractor'.

We had a lot of fun seeing how the farm is growing and developing. Hopefully we can go back and explore the tractors with Henry again soon.