DOS -- sheSaid

August 5, 2009 10:46:16 am

Two.


It feels like he must be so much older. I forget sometimes he's *only two* expecting so much more from him. I can't remember any life before this one, how could it have been ONLY two years. The baby days seem so far behind us. I don't remember WHAT I did to entertain him then, don't remember what our days looked like.

If I dig through the archives and look at the pictures it seems familiar but more like a book you have read before or a movie you watched then my own memory.



Today I was baking his cake and I got a call from his school.
"no he didn't bite any one"*
"good"
"he's sick, fever, acting really slow and low key, which is not him at all"



That sums him up to. Not low key at all. If he rests his head on you for more than a second or want to cuddle it is either bedtime, or he's sick. The rest of the day he is in constant motion. Climbing, jumping, practicing his long jump, doing p90x with daddy, throwing things, bouncing like a bunny, or pointing out all the things he sees.




Going along with that. He is a passionate kid. Full of passion. He is filled with joy for life, and TRUCKS! and SWINGS, and the PARK! and everything he sees. And is filled with that same intensity when things do not go his way.



I was recently talking to a friend about an incident in the dr. office. I had him eating peanuts out of a toy scooper truck to entertain him. With a mouthful of peanuts he threw the toy and I told him "we don't throw toys" and he threw himself backwards on the floor screaming. He proceeded to choke on the peanuts and I had to hold him over the garbage can and help him puke them back up, which carrying on the conversation with the dr. My friend commented "he really doesn't like boundaries"



Oh so true.
He is willful. When you tell him not to do something he looks at you and proceeds to do it with a look on his face like "what are you going to do to stop me?"
He has pulled this on my mom, me, heSaid and recently at school.

His teacher saw him move towards another kid, while playing with a puzzle, mouth open to bit him. She said his name LOUD to shock him to stop. He looked at her, stared her straight in the face and leaned over a bit the kid. She smirked a bit as she told me. You can't help but laugh a bit at the audacity of it... and yet, it is so not cool.

Discipline? Correcting behavior? Modeling how to act? Avoiding conflict?  I feel like all of it fails with him. The only option is to get him to think it is his idea to do what you want him to do.... which is only about 50% successful. Then when everything else fails, pick him up kicking and screaming and get on with him. I heard recently they get to big for that VERY SOON. Guess I need a new tactic.




He meets the world physically. Even his communication seems physical more than verbal at times. He is not yet speaking sentences, but is putting things together 'I swing' for I want to go swing. He uses his whole body and face and gestures to get the rest of his meaning across. He is working on pronouncing things better. Doggy not just woof or ogg. He tries out new words when we say something he has not said before. Gross, Mail. Gecko. are a few recent favorites.




He already wants to drive a car. Loving the carts at the store that have a car in front that he can pretend to drive. Yesterday when I picked him up front school we were hanging out in the front seat, he grabbed the steering wheel and said ' I go.'







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