Mr Cool put these on himself.

Dylan recently said, 'Dylan is a good boy.' Then he added, 'Daddy is a good boy.' Finally he said, 'Mummy is a good boy.'

Dylan distinguishes marine animals including fish, dolphins, whales, and sharks, but he still can't count past two. (He can recite numbers higher, but he cannot count more than two objects.)

When we ask Dylan to do something that he dislikes, he sometimes offers another good deed instead. For example, when we told him to put on his shoes, instead he crawled on the toilet and said 'Pee pee'. What could we do?

Dylan's book Farmyard Tales Christmas includes a picture of Poppy's letter to Santa. Poppy's writing is clearly shown within the letter, so Dylan has learned what 'letters' are. Now he calls the text in books 'letters'. (At times he distinguishes 'numbers', too.) In one of Dylan's library books, a mischievous character steals the letter O. Consequently Dylan now spots the letter O in books (and on his bottle, and on Daddy's sweatshirt, etc.) and says 'letter O' and makes the ooohhh sound. Obviously Dylan is a literary genius, in Daddy's view.

Dylan in Wales.

Dylan can count to two. He loves to count at any opportunity: 'One dog. Two dogs. One bike. Two bikes.' (Sometimes instead he will say, 'One bike. Other bike.') Dylan has not yet meaningfully counted items above two, even though he knows the verbal procession 'one two three'.

Dylan in snowman outfit pushing Mu Mu.


Dylan put Daddy's hat on himself.

Dylan led Mummy by the hand toward the stairs. Then he let go of Mummy's hand, turned around, and dragged Daddy also to the stairs. 'He wants both of us to go upstairs with him', said Mummy. But, instead, Dylan closed and locked the stair gate on his unsuspecting parents, with them on one side, and himself on the other. Free of those two and unmolested, he proceeded back to the dining room, alone, and began to play.