He is such a smart little boy.  He mimics everything we do.  Especially Stewart.  He loves to shadow Stewart and do everything he does.  This include running around making shooting noises, making dinosaur noises, making train noises, making car noises, playing Nerf, running around the "lap" in our house, looking at books, sitting quietly and watching TV, eating, playing the DS, swimming . . . I could go on forever.

I am sitting here on the bed, I have the laptop out and Parker is sitting next to me with Stewart's DSi.  He likes to sit around with it and sometimes he takes some pictures.  He mostly likes to get out the stylus and move it around - he thinks he is doing stuff.  It's pretty cute.  But I just glanced over at him and he is actually playing one of the New Super Mario Brothers mini games.  It's the one where you roll a snowball down a road, trying to avoid the obstacles.  I glance over at him, and he has the stylus gripped in his sweaty little hand and he is moving the stylus up and down on the screen making the snowball roll.  So as I sit here in amazement, I see that he is navigating the menus.  HE IS TWO YEARS OLD!  When the game is over, he gets it back to the main menu and selects a new game.  I've just watched him start a game, couldn't figure out how to play it, so he pulled up the "continue" or "quit" menu and he selected quit and it went back to the main menu and he chose another game.  I'm not even kidding.  I am totally amazed.  I know he can't read - but he is remembering what happens when he does a certain action.  He's going through and playing the mini games I'm just sitting here shaking my head in amazement. 

We have been spending a lot of time in an inflatable pool that we set up on the deck.  it's a decent sized pool - and it's fun for the three of us to climb in and play around.  Stewart likes to get underwater and "swim a lap."  Yesterday I noticed Parker doing the same thing.  Two years old, never had swimming lessons and he crawls his little body back and forth, HOLDING HIS BREATH, with his head under water.  This he learned from watching Stewart!  I think Stewart likes seeing that Parker copies him - and it helps when I try to stress that Stewart needs to set a good example for his brother.

Parker is this amazing little sponge.  I know I learned about this in class but to me, a theory is just a theory when it's black and white on paper.  But now that I see it - I 100% believe in the social learning theory.  Just look at the amazing things that Parker is doing!

It is a great summer so far!  I am having so much fun spending time with the kids.  We are keeping up with Stewart's studies and reading books on a regular basis.  So even with all the fun, we are still being productive.  :)  It is good to be me!