Calvin

If you were to ask Calvin what he likes to do most he would most likely tell you that he likes to play cars and blocks.  There are few days that Calvin does not ask to get out the cars and blocks.  Almost everyday it is the first thing Calvin will ask to do.  He will do all sorts of things with his cars and blocks.  Sometimes he makes roller coasters, towers, or tracks like these ones here.
Lately he has been making these long race tracks, it is fun to see all of the different things he makes and thinks up to do with these two simple toys.  The first time Calvin made one of these tracks Alden was so excited and jumped right in to play with Calvin and of course Alden took pictures.  (I actually have close up pictures of each piece of each of these tracks..which might look the same but have different infrastructures if you look closely.)

Calvin is also often my little peacemaker.  He enjoys playing on his own but if Alden wants to do something with him he will almost always be up to playing whatever Alden wants to play.  Lately he has also become better and better at finding what Benson likes to play and playing that with him.
The other way in which Calvin is my peacemaker is that he doesn't mind what treat he gets or if he gets one or what present..things like that are not important to him.
For example the other day for preschool we painted sun catchers and after the preschool kids had picked the ones they wanted there was a rocket left and flowers.  Calvin had told me lots of times he wanted to paint the rocket and he got to pick before Alden because Alden isn't one of the preschool kids.  He knew Alden wanted to rocket so he picked the flowers just so Alden would be happy.  He does things like that all of the time.  People are much more important than things and he demonstrates that often in his choices.