While Saturday was the kind of day that made me want another child, full of beautiful moments to sigh over happily, Sunday was a lot more rough. He’s definitely at the age now where everything needs to be challenged… It is funny everybody tells you “just wait for the terrible twos” but nobody bothers to tell you what to do about it, or perhaps more importantly that once you figure out the purpose of this behavior that it at least makes sense. What i mean by that is simply – if he didn’t challenge us right now, every step of the way, he wouldn’t challenge anything or anybody. Who wants to raise somebody like that?
Anyway, so Sunday one of his antics was that he cleverly disguised the removal of a crayon from the drawing-safe area as a typical pre-diaper escape… For whatever reason he tries to avoid getting his diaper changed sometimes. I laughed and watched him run around a corner and slowly got up to grab him… then heard the unmistakable sound of crayon-on-wall. I couldn’t believe it… “But there’s still eight crayons on the mat… oh SNAP… SEVEN.”
I advise everybody to use ceramic flat paint, it cleaned up without so much as a single line or buff mark with just a wet paper towel. Perfect! (EDIT – Ohhh. “Washable” crayons! nice!)
This morning (Monday the 23rd) Ian reached a sort of milestone I didn’t expect. In the past he’s just set his zooey (pacifier) on the floor, or kitchen table when he’s had enough. And this is always a heartening spectacle to watch, as it really does mean he’s maturing before our eyes. So today was different because Ian took the zooey out, said “no zooey” and clambered up the stairs to his room, tipping it up onto his dresser, which is where they are typically stored.
Alright so now that we’ve caught up on some stuff, let’s go back in time a little bit and catch up on the other bits.
We’re going to start back on January 13th with this 2.8 MB video. It requires some explanation.
In the TV show that we’re watching, a group of kids form a sort of super-hero club to save the day, and they do this EVERY episode. They invite the watcher to join the group, asking you to say your name, put your hand in, as they all do, and then they raise their hands in the air saying “to the rescue!” They then introduce themselves one by one naming their powers… The viewer’s power is the power to “help.”
Click here to watch the video…
Grampa Dave hand-cut a few shapes for Ian to play with, a three-dimensional square (not quite a cube) and an extruded circle, during our visit on February 14th. On Monday of this week Ian was delighted to get a package containing the third shape, a triangle. Needless to say we’ve heard the word “triangle” a lot this last week! Thanks Grampa Dave! 