Wednesday, December 17, 2014

My Talker in December

So there was a moment this month, a day a moment, I don't know. But he just suddenly started talking. Like an actual kid, not like a toddler <3 Sooooooooooo happy!

11) Got him home from school and he started acting sick. Coughing, fever, lethargic. Poor kid. There was a lot of cuddling to be done that night :(

12) Croup cough started in the middle of the night. Took him to the doctor to help his breathing. Poor kid. He was nervous about letting her look into his ears, and overly sensitive about most everything. :( After his nap he was extra miserable too, with his fever returning. We toggled between train videos and Curious George throughout the day.

13) Up a chunk of the night miserable. Poor kid :( We visit Meemaw and Papa for awhile though, and Peanut refuses to nap. But he's pretty well behaved until dinner time when he devolved into a mess. Mr Veggie has to work late and poor Peanut has to deal with me for bathtime too. But he survived the experience.

14) Starting to feel a bit better. He doesn't want to do anything much all day but stay at home and quietly play though. We convinced him later that night to go for a short walk to look at christmas lights though. We also invent the game "Hide and go Moo" which is exactly what it sounds like. He moo'd at everything on our walk too.

15) We decide he needs one more day to rest and don't go to the gym. I do go out and pick up Polar Express though so we watch that. He loves it. Bedtime routine is he gets up, counts to 3 (or 5 or 3 again) turns off the light and lays down and we sing Twinkle Twinkle together. I think he was trying to get more verses out of us, he refused to sing, then he sang, then he demanded we all sing together (instead of us all just doing that from the start) and this was the multiple night of him deliberately trying to mess up song time so he cried a bit after we told him it was just time for bed.

16) He goes to school, he's got a new box of Chex and loves eating it dry (less milk mess!) We had an unorthodox dinner, I made waffles, and he started having one when he spied a candy cane. So I let him have one after the candy cane, then when Mr Veggie came home, they sat down and ate more. Dessert in the middle! Then some Elf special was on TV, the elf's name was Buddy, which confused poor Peanut a tad bit. But at least our "punishment" of not singing a third time seemed to work  and finally we were all back to singing twinkle twinkle together.

17) Today! It's so sweet, he wakes up and chimes in a merry "Good morning!" right away. He didn't want to go to school today - when I got his coat he cried "No, it's nighttime. Go up and sleep!" and tried to take off for his bedroom. Poor kid is probably have a wonderful time right now playing, I'm soooooo mean for making him go!

He's a big fan of our new door too.

We got a lot of good dancing in tonight, and much play with the flying/swimming/I don't know Rainbow fish. Also we got a new ornament for the tree. Then when he jumped into the bathtub he declared "I clean!" Way to save water buddy ;)

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

December Continues

I wanted to post more this Dec, like I did last Dec (has it really been a year?) but, well, plague. So let's try to recap.

Let's see....




5) Peanut goes to Meemaws on Friday. They went on a nice long trail walk, due to the mild weather we're finally having. Kid PASSED OUT at nap time I hear, good for him!!

6) Peanut intentionally skipped nap time so we could go to an event downtown. There was a holiday special at a museum, and Papa's train club was open for it, so he and papa played trains while we Mr Veggie, Meemaw and I walked through the museum. He did really well I hear, all the guys had nice things to say.

7) my day to chill out and do things with Mom, or whatever, both Peanut and I hang out over at Meemaw's. I finally started ordering Christmas presents. 

8) Plague. The two boys both had a stomach bug awhile back, and it finally caught me. While I was fighting off a cold. And my back decided to act up again. I was a hot mess, but Peanut did such a good job taking care of me. He fetched me things I asked for, stuff that I didn't but he thought I needed, and at one point he looked me straight in the eye and clearly said "Mama, are you feeling better?" So much love for that little boy.
9) Peanuts been doing that thing where he wakes up, goes out into the hallway and... Waits for us. We'll hear him open and shut the doors, like he's trying to get us to wake up w/o doing it with his voice. Not sure if that's just an oddity, or if maybe he feels bad about waking us up?

10) The freaked out look on Peanut's face is so worth all the effort I go through to derail the train in his simulator. He's getting pretty good with the controls, panning the camera, the horn, switching views. He warned me to slow down, but Mommy couldn't resist the downhill grade. Derailed his train, made it fall through the tunnel, down through the air till it crashed. I swear he almost peed himself. I'm so mean! I'll teach him how to speed up and slow down next time we play.

He spoke about the incident for the rest of the night <3



Friday, December 5, 2014

December Begins

 1) Today Peanut slept till 740, we went to the doctors for a booster shot, he clearly cried out 'owie,' then we played at the gym. We picked out a star for the top of the tree, and came home for lunch.

No nap while he watched the blue mountains

We asked him what he wanted from Santa.
Kitty bells (jingle bells)
No noggin'
Orange train
Red and green candy


2) Another no nap day. Many no nap days in a row. Not much time to do anything after bringing him home but to feed, bathe and put him to bed. Mr Veggie beat us home, it was a happy surprise.

3) Party at 2AM, finally put him on the couch with a train video and we all slept. He finally napped, though apparently reluctantly. Must be a phase he was going through. Mr Veggie beat us home, but it was expected this time. Poor guy was sick overnight too. Made chili though, at his request. Peanut wouldn't have anything with the chili, however kept requesting more 'spicy cheese.' One spicy thing at a time?

4) Took a good nap, found him playing at school with 2 other boys with the train. One boy would fly Thomas off the end of the track, Peanut would giggle and add on another piece of track for him. Brought him home, had a yummy dinner of PBJ and raspberries, played with hotwheels (so sorry! everytime they crashed) and watched Peter Pan.