Milestone #8 - Colors

We started working on colors with Isaac in November. He quickly got orange, blue, and red. The others came when we put up a Christmas tree with multi-colored lights. He was SO excited about all of the lights, and he was super psyched when we turned on the lights, and he could tell us all the colors of the lights.

He quickly defined his favorite color as orange followed closely by pink. He chooses orange and pink everything (including buttons, of course.) He loves orange so much that after awhile he gave orange a nickname. Now, he lovingly refers to orange as “orange-y.” When he wants us to give him something, or he wants to show us something, he will often just refer to that something by it’s color. When we are reading books, sometimes I think that he doesn’t hear any of the words we read, because all he wants to do is point out the colors of everything on the page. It’s pretty damn cute.

We told Isaac what our favorite colors are, and we also told him what the dogs’ favorite colors are. This boy has an incredible memory. After telling him once, we would go through the repertoire of whose favorite color is what. Abbie- pink. Day-Z – red. Mom- bue. Dad- geen. Ikees (that’s what he calls himself) – orange. Then, he quickly picked up on favorite colors of several other important people in his life and memorized those. I have a video of it but DOH! It’s too big to post to blogger. Stupid blogger.

Isaac will always choose an orange shirt if there are clean ones in his drawer. Unfortunately, and to my surprise, I could not find a recent photo of him wearing an “orange-y!” What??? But you will see, in this photo below, that he immediately chose the orange and pink pieces of the Clippo toy. In fact, now that Clippo is “old,” we may as well only keep the orange and pink pieces out, because those are the only ones he’ll play with.