Somehow, without my being able to lay a finger on exactly when, Ivan has gotten to be quite a big boy. I found myself noticing the other day how much more he jumps in during conversations, and how he takes an active role in the playing that the kids do. Sometimes, he is even the leader when they play, and Lincoln lets him be. For example the other day, they were playing "struction" workers, and Ivan was the one driving the dump truck while giving out the orders for where to dump the "dirt" and how much was enough and when to move on to the next "site", and so on.
His vocabulary and sentence structure have taken another jump, so that I find words coming out of his mouth that surprise me. He's never been one to learn language gradually. It's like, he started out knowing no words, and then one morning he woke up and knew 10, and then another morning he woke up and knew 30, and so on, without really having a transition stage where he'd try out new words. I guess he does all the trying out part silently in his head, and when he figures he's ready, he lets them loose for the world to hear. His latest thing is explaining a process. He knows plenty of words now, that he can explain the process of how a thing should work, or what it should do, or the order events should occur in. And it's his favorite. He'll sit me down and ramble non-stop for two minutes, almost without taking a breath, about how to put oil in his dump trunk and what the oil does and on and on, and then when he runs out of things to say, he'll say "And that's it."
He's really into his dump truck lately. I'm glad. We got it for his second birthday last March, and he's always liked it sort of, but hasn't really given it a whole lot of attention until these last two weeks or so. And now the two can barely be parted. He loves to put on his "struction" hat and be a "struction" worker. :)
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