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Big Boy started school today! And by school I mean Kid's Day Out at the church. It is only one day a week but he goes for 3 1/2 hours- longer than Sis goes!
Since the day that my baby turned two it seems he has adapted a new mentality and that is to make everything a little more difficult. I go to put him in the car "I unt Sissy's seat" (which of course sets off chaos), I tell him to sit down at the table "No mama!", I attempt to be a laid back mom and let him walk by himself into school to drop off L "insert-screaming, running down the halls".
I, of course, will be the first to make an excuse for him and say that he is really talking now and gets frustrated because we don't always understand what he wants. EVERY sentence he says starts with "I want" and ends with "too" (we're not sure why). All day long- "Unt shoe on too" "Unt a dwink too" "Unt dee-buh-dee too (DVD)". He is loving expressing himself but then we'll be sitting at the dinner table and he is screaming for something and we have no idea what. He's pointing like crazy and I am guessing like crazy but sometimes I just can't figure it out.
So he has been a touch on the ornery side. I was a little worried about today because there are days where I leave him at KidZone at the Y for an hour and when I come back the teachers are visibly annoyed. I'll say "How'd he do?" And they'll say "Oh, he's been climbing on the high chairs" or "Oh, he kept taking the truck away from that little boy". But we're working with him, we really are. The nice thing about T is he gets in big trouble but he is quick to repent so luckily his bad spells end up with smiles!
This is his new backpack I ordered him. He loves it because he feels he is like his two favorite girls- Sissy and Dora!
All ready to go!
Wanting to pack his backpack with the essentials- trains and a hammer. Oh, his teacher would love me!
And when I went to pick him up I got a great report! His teachers said he was the only one who didn't cry at all and that he did really well. They said his favorite thing was singing and dancing.
He also made a picture he was proud to show me!
And I have to show, too, that Sis got a backpack as well like Big Boy's for ballet- which she LOVES! She has a rehearsal a week from Saturday and then a mini-performance the following Saturday at Greater Andover Days. I think it will be so cute, she doesn't have very many girls in her class and they are hilarious to watch. Who knows what they'll do on stage???
Big Boy had a great day yesterday as we celebrated his birthday. In the morning we went to the park with friends. The kids got to play on the equipment and ride bikes/push mowers around the tennis courts- they had a blast! We brought football doughnuts and juice for everyone and Big Boy opened some gifts and ran around like crazy!
We had family over to our house for the birthday celebration. By that point in the night T knew it was his birthday and he was so excited. He got several "happy birthday" songs sung to him throughout the day so by then he knew he was special! As everyone arrived he kept running around in circles and saying "Watch, watch!" (his new fave phrase!)
The theme was trains, of course, and we had pizza, veggie and fruit trays, and of course cake and ice cream. Big Boy loaded up on gifts and as always got bored of opening gifts before they ran out. He scored lots of cool stuff and has had a great time playing with everything today!
The birthday boy in his "2" shirt that I couldn't resist! :)
The only child who ate 2 doughnuts!
Borrowing our friend A's bike
So happy!
Checking out some gifts
Waiting for the party to begin:
Dinner
Opening gifts including a conductor's hat:
Checking out loot with Sissy:
Loving his gift from his sister, which she picked out:
New truck:
He must have seen us do this before. Boy, that cake in and he started huffing and puffing like crazy! He was about a centimeter from landing in the cake trying to blow out the back two:
Sissy was very happy to have an occasion to have cake and ice cream, and she has reminded me several times that in "Feb-ooh-ary" when she is four she will get the same.
New motorcycle:
And the new train table! Lots of work to assemble (thank you Daddy) but he is LOVING it!!
And I can't forget his 7 Dwarfs. Big Boy and Sissy watch Snow White together weekly and T's favorite song is "Heigh Ho", as many of you know! He stamps around the house singing it with his hammer and now he carries his dwarfs, too!
What a long day! We had to do quick baths and bed since Sis had school today:
(I love it when she falls asleep with her hands like this!)
He had a great day!
My darling "baby" turns 2 tomorrow. I can't believe it. Where did the time go? I hate that it seems like only yesterday he was just a baby but at the same time it is so fun to enter into a stage where he is truly his own little person.
What I love about My Baby T
1. He is a boy. In every sense of the word he is a boy. Anyone who has ever met him can attest to the fact that he is rough and tough and wild. And I love it.
2. Despite him being a stereotypical "boy", he is so sweet and so cuddly. I get hugs and kisses from him all day long. Whenever we are in the family room playing or I'm in the kitchen cooking he will come up to me and kiss my leg, my foot, or my arm and grin and run away.
3. He loves his blanket. When he wakes up in the morning he likes to be cuddled first with his blanket before he runs off to play.
4. I love how well he can talk and that most people don't know it. He does not show off his words- he keeps them secret and then will all of a sudden say something to bring a smile to my face. The other day I said "oh, T, I love you so." And he said "MUCH!"
5. I love that he is such a good sleeper. Always sleeps all night, never any problems with him. And I love that he will wake up and play in his crib. And most of all I love that he hasn't tried to climb out of it yet!
6. I love that he loves me to sing to him in his rocking chair. And that he will sing along with me.
7. I love how when I am in another room he will run to me "mama, mama, mama, mama" and then start telling me, in his own language, about what he is doing.
8. I love that he will put his fist out to a cashier at Target and say "blow it up".
9. I love that his eyes, which started very blue, are going to be green like mine. And I love his beautiful blond hair. And I love how he is built- skinny and muscular.
10. I love how he is to his sister. He torments her, of course, but then he also will play Snow White with her and be the prince. She pretends to be asleep and he goes to kiss her.
11. Big Boy is everything I ever wanted in a boy. Pat and I laugh that someday as a teenager we are going to be bailing him out of jail for something, of which he will be innocent of course, ;)- but he is everything that we ever imagined and he makes our daily lives so fun. There isn't a single day that goes by where we don't say to each other "He is so CUTE!"
Birthday celebrations will be in full swing tomorrow!
