3.5

Little E is not so little anymore. He's 3.5 going on 30 some days and much, much more mature than he was just a few months ago.

At 3.5, E is at his most charming, entertaining and fascinating. Which is good, because at 3, he was, well, challenging.

E @ 3.5

*His vocabulary is fantastic; he's fluent with words like similar and container, much to the amazement of his teachers. He's also made a stab at using the word metaphor, but that's another story.

*E is still as sweet, affectionate and snuggly as ever.

*He is gun crazy. Everything becomes a "gund"in his hands. Or a vorpal sword (he's very in to Alice in Wonderland). He hunts "thrillers" and jabberwocky and monsters.

*Ev is an amazing dancer. He has got some incredible moves and loves to show them off.

*Evan's bed has become a spaceship (sometimes a Tie fighter, sometimes an X-wing fighter, sometimes just a rocketship). He travels all over the universe at night, with his family of stuffed animals. The other night he was going to solar systems very very very very far away. First he had to bring caterpillar to space school. Then E went to space work. Also, he sleeps completely under the sheet (head too) with no other covers allowed on his bed.

*He still enjoys "naked baby laps" aka streaking around the downstairs.

*Favorites:
-- music: Thriller, Life is a Highway (from the Cars movie), We Will Rock You by Queen (called the "mud on your face" song by E)
-- books: Anything spooky, anything with Lightning McQueen. He chose I Can Read with My Eyes Shut as his favorite Seuss book this week. He is going for variety these days though he sometimes has phases when we read the same book twice a day for weeks at at time.
-- food: fish sticks and letter taters -- even though we can't get letter taters here. Pizza is hit or miss. Fruit, yogurt and nuts are still big. He has very limited repertoire of veggies but honey carrots go over pretty well. He's an all frosting and no cake man. He actually accepted tempura chicken as chicken tenders for dinner tonight and enjoyed the accompanying sauce!
-- toys: Trio blocks, legos, paper towel tubes, boxes, marble game

Evan in one word at 3.5? Dramatic.