That today marks
Two "official" weeks
With the Littles.
Little Man
And
Boo
(Who was Miss Giggles
Who turned into Tigger
Who has become Boo-
Think Monsters' Inc.)
Have changed
My house
(Let's see a crib, diapers, diaper genie, sippy cups, make-shift gates...)
My days
(Diaper changing, chasing, laughing, temper-tantrums, lots of eating...)
My nights
(Baby monitors, midnight cries, bedtime hug cuddle prayers, early morning cuddles...)
My thoughts
(Where are they? What are they doing? Are they okay?)
My memory
(Seriously...I am little a scattered nightmare now. It's crazy!)
My life
(And for the better...even when it doesn't feel like it.)
And...in these two weeks,
I have learned a lot of things
About how each of them "tick"
(For better or worse.)
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| Little Man bites. Yes. These are the impression of his six little teeth that he left on the back of Boo the other day. I don't know what to do to stop him. It happens SO fast and I obviously can't (and won't ever!) bite him back - and the natural way for him to learn that it hurts is to have it done back to him from the assailant (but I would never tell Boo, or anyone else to do that back to him) - but seriously...what do you do? People have mentioned bite toys, but he seriously don't bite or put other things in his mouth and when he gets frustrated it happens so fast none of us see it coming. We yell "STOP! NO BITE!" trying to startle him in the moments when we do happen to catch it, but now he has bite two different kids, two different days at daycare this week. URGH! |
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| Boo LOVES to sort, stack, and organize things. Here she is with all of the plastic cups from the cupboard. She likes to pull all of one color of the magnetic letters off the refrigerator and walk around the house with them. It's cute - albeit a little OCD, and it shows me just how smart this little cookie is. |
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| Little Man eats bananas as if they were corn on the cob. It makes us all laugh. Little Man LOVES to eat and fruit is his thing. |
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| Little Man's favorite sitting/standing/thinking/stress-relieving position...I see yoga in his future. |
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| Umm...yeah, Little Man is out numbered here and we love to remind him of the fact. He was rocking this tutu and rainbow scarf a few nights ago. We also love to shampoo his hair up into funny spikes and ponies. Hee, hee. |
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| Little Man and Boo's favorite toy in the house is the rocking chair. I don't have a good picture (or hardly any) of Boo on it because she is always rocking at about 10 mph it seems! |
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| We LOVE Boo, but she seriously hardly ever stops talking. The incessant talking in bed has gotten to the point where I have taken her out of bed and started having her fall asleep on the over-sized chair in the living room and then transferring her over to bed later. We know she is technically speech delayed (probably about a year to six month behind kids her age in speech acquisition) and we want to encourage her to always be talking and learning new words and meanings, but oy...she is sure making up for lost time at two inconvenient spots - the dinner table and at bed time. |
Praise Reports Specifically About the Littles:
--Boo's temper tantrums have decreased greatly and she is now able to sit on her time-out rug for 2 or 3 minutes and then get up and bring the timer to me and apologize for what got her into timeout. This is huge, folks! Huge!
--Little Man fights me less and less every day for his 10-minute, twice a day, breathing treatments and has basically stopped whining at the dinner table when he isn't getting food fast enough to please him and is using his sign language to communicate more, eat, and all done.
Prayer Requests Specifically About the Littles:
--Both Boo and Little Man have done fairly well during our daycare transition week this week. The staff loves them all. Please be praying that Boo becomes more receptive to the idea of potty training. She turns 3 next month. And please, please, please pray that Little Man stops biting other kids and that we would have wisdom of how to teach him that it hurts and must stop.
PS - This is Boo from Monsters' Inc. My sister and I have started calling Miss Giggles/Tigger that now. :-)
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