Esme at 28 months

She is such a big girl now! She is very interested in reading, but hardly at all in toilet training. Her current obsession is with trains, 'choo-choo' etc. There is a train in one of her computer programs she likes. She also is getting to understand waiting a bit better. She can put her favorite pants in the washer and understand we have to come back when it is done - and then they are wet so they can't be worn yet - and have to go in the dryer etc... Her favorite foods are oranges, carrots, corn, chicken and fish. Her favorite book is 'Go Dog Go.' She loves the Electric Company dvds and 'reads' along with the characters. She asks for 'the Muppet Show' and identifies several characters now (chef, pig, doggie, frog). She attempts to give her frog toy a diaper change or have her horse toy 'eat' the soap in the bathtub or need to be rescued when its feet get stuck in playdough (help help! stuck!). She knows several colors and remembers all of the alphabet letters most of the time, but not the song - she knows the individual letters but could care less about singing a song. I think she is very visually oriented - because she likes songs but won't repeat them unless there is some picture to go with it. The other night she was 'reading' letters off of her Magnadoodle and then came back and wrote an 'O' and tried an 'A'. When she was drawing with her crayons she made a 'Y' and came to me so happy saying 'I did it - This a Y!'