Benjamin is now a big three year old, with big hopes of indepence and decision making. He understands so much and when he wants to, he can easily follow any and all instructions. He is a very sweet boy who likes to come up and lay his head on us. He also enjoys saying good morning to Liam in the sweetest voice. His smile is about the cutest thing ever and every one we meet asks us if he is just as "cheeky" (frækt) as he looks! Also people comment how much Benjamin looks like his Daddy, and we have to agree, WOW, there is a huge resemblence.
Silas and Benjamin have developed a really great relationship the past 6 months now that Benjamin can join in on games. They make up games and things to play and have a lot of fun together. Last month the game was playing in Benjamin's crib together. Of course there can also be moments of teasing which usually ends with Benjamin screaming in a very high pitched voice. Although it is tapering off now, Benjamin loves to copy everything that Silas does. If Silas runs over to the blackberry bush yelling "blackberry time", then Benjamin will run in the exact same way yelling "blackberry time". He has also now learned to say Silas' name-- mostly. It started "Sitah".. then "Sitas" ... now "Sila" with a very slight S sound. He likes to say "Sila skal vi lege?"-- (Silas should we play?). In general Silas and Benjamin speak Danish together when they are playing or talking to each other.
Speaking of language, Benjamin is getting easier and easier to understand. He often uses full sentences and we don't have to guess what he is saying really anymore. Generally he speaks Danish, although he will put a few English words in a sentence when speaking to me, but the majority of the words are Danish. However, after a day being home with just me and his brothers, he will speak more English, so I'm not too concerned about it. He definitely understands and knows all the English words. Some fun Benjamin ways of speaking are:
- He uses a D in stead of a S for words that start with S. For example instead of saying "Jeg Spiser" (I'm eating) he says "Jeg Fiser" (which means, I'm farting!) That's a pretty funny one. He also says FIDER instead of Spider.
As mentioned, Benjamin has a mind of his own and can be quite stubborn at times. He wants to decide how things go and even if what you ask him to do is something he normally likes, he may say no just so that he can be the one to decide what we are going to do. Benjamin has however begun to use the word "Okay" in his vocabulary this past month, which has made things quite a bit easier. We have to say though that the whiney voice is still used much too often and when he says he wants something "I want to play the IPad Mommy"...If you say no he will respond in a very loud, basically yelling voice where his whole head turns read saying "Play IPad MIG SIGER!!!!) (mig siger means - Me say)
Other mentionable things:
- Bejamin always picks the same song for the table prayer "KROKODILLE", however, he never sings along to it, or any other table prayer song himself
- He is good at cleaning up and will often come up with the idea himself
- He still sleeps in his crib, as he has never tried to get out. For naps he sleeps inside now, but only Søren can actually get him to sleep by staying in there. He will NOT nap if Mommy puts him down.
- He still uses a sut and diaper. He had gone without a diaper at Margit's before starting pre-school but that doesn't seem to interest him anymore so we are waiting until spring to really focus on it again.
- Asks "Hvorfor" (Why) all the time, and when you answer him he asks "Hvorfor" to that answer.
- He also in very insistent saying the same things over and over until we respond in the way that he wants....although he most often speaks Danish to me, he will switch over to English to get my attention. For ex: He wil say "Come Mommy---lige nu!"...Then after some time of me not coming he will say "Come Mommy---right now!!"
- If you ask Benjamin a question and he doesn't know the answer he replies "Mig ik' husk det" (Me not remember)
- Morning came at around 5:15 am for about a full year...since he turned 2 actually. But then all of a sudden he started sleeping until 6:30 right before Liam was born in September! Yay! Then it turned to 6 and then just a few days ago it turned to 5 or 5:15 again!! So yeah Søren gets a lot of time with him in the mornings!
-Benjamin sings a long to certain songs if you sing with him and will also start singing a random song while he is playing.
-Weighs 15kg and is 95cm tall.
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