Before I go any further, I’d like to point out that this is post #100. I came on today to post an update about Dylan and saw that there are 99 other posts. Cool that today is #100. Now, on to the updates…
Let’s see. For quite a long time, me and Tamara have occasionally called Dylan “Goober” or “Goober Nugget”. Well that era has officially ended. Within the last few months, every time one of us call his him that he stops and says “don’t call me goober nugget”. I’d been testing the waters the last few days and every time I called him that, he told me not to. So, it would seem that at least one nickname has now been retired.
He’s started the “what’s that” and “why” stage. We’re getting a lot of questions about why we do something or why we ask him to do something. What is that? Why? Lots of those. The curiosity in him is really coming out now.
Dinner time has become a battle. We have an awful time trying to get him to eat much of anything at suppertime but it’s not like he’s unhealthy. He just doesn’t eat. It irritates me because he should be eating something but I keep having to remind myself that if he is hungry, he’ll eat. I don’t want to stress him out.
He’s gotten better at counting. He can count to 12 or 13 now and he pretty much can nail down the ABC song without any help. Aside from that, he’s “reading” his own books. We’ve shown this to the moms and they get blown away pretty quickly. Basically we can sit him down with a book, open the pages, and he’ll start reading each page. He’s not “reading” like we do, but he knows what each page says because he’s had it read to him enough times. Cooly enough though, it doesn’t take him long to learn a book now. VERY impressed with him.
He’s also in a puzzle mood lately. He has this cookie monster puzzle that he wants to put together, tear apart, and put back together. Every day for the last week he wants to play with his puzzle. For a kid who’s two and a half, he does a hell of a job putting the puzzle together himself.
Finally, he’s doing a bit better with his sister. He’s not hitting as much and he’s more apt to play with his own stuff and leave her alone but we still have to watch him as he sometimes takes stuff from her or taps her on the head. I know it’s just the inability for him to express himself so we don’t get too upset unless he really crosses the line. He does however seem to have a lot of fun playing with her when they are both in a good mood. We’ve been told by his daytime babysitter that he is VERY protective of her when they are there. I’m glad the two are going to be close.
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