Saturday, August 6, 2011
Remember
It's interesting because I do this blog so I won't forget anything. Or at least I won't forget as much. The whole concept of "remember" is now real for E. He will say, "I remember that". And he does! He remembers places and things we have done now. He wants to do them again and will suggest them even when it isn't recent history. It could of been a month ago and he will randomly offer for us to go and do an activity we have gone and done.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
Dear Evan-43 Months Old
Dear Evan-
This summer is flying by. It is half over and we have had alot of fun. You have loved your camps. Especially Domi and Gene's camp and Rookie camp. I pick you up and you do not want to leave. I have to coax you to get you to go to the car with me! It is wonderful to see you having so much fun. I love that we have found these special places for you and that you have felt secure in these new places to explore and have fun.
Holley our neighbor has been babysitting you in the eves sometimes when we need it on occasion. You really like her and since she lives only a few doors down we see her all the time and you consider her a friend. Meleana still takes care of you too sometimes during the day or on a weekend afternoon. You seem to really like her company and it is special that she has been watching you for the past year.
You really want Mama to do everything. You still request and demand that it is me that dresses you and washes your hair. You use to be protective of my things but you seem to have cooled off about that sort of thing. It is more just about routine now because you are so use to me doing things for you that is the way you want it to work. You can read many words now and I found out by you pointing to the word and telling me the word and something about it. One word is your name. You won't read it but point to it and then spell it out loud! E-V-A-N!
You can put your shoes on all by yourself now. And can pretty much take all of your clothes off on your own. You are very particular about what clothes we put on you and you like to now chose everything. You have an opinion on how they fit too. In fact that seems to be more important than how they look. You will have a shirt on and say, "mama this shirt is too big!".
You love Anna the cat that lives next door. We often sit with her in the courtyard and pet her. She is such a great cat and will just sit with us. You like to lay your head on her and she just takes it. We talk about getting a cat or a dog. You will often ask for a cat more often than a dog. You like to play in the courtyard. We have a huge pink flower tree. This tree loses its' leaves often and you like to take a basket and go pick up the leaves. You like to take a stick and hit the tree to make the leaves fall down. We don't have a yard but how wonderful we have this courtyard for us to explore. It has a nice size fountain in the middle that offers some nice white noise and now the grass and flowers are finally growing. The irrigation wasn't working and all of the grass and flowers would never grow. that was ok too because you use to be able to dig. Now that all the flowers and plants are living we can no longer dig and go to the bluff with your trucks.
You seem pretty good about sharing. I think you get it now. You will even tell other kids they need to share when you want something from them! You still hit and push when you get frustrated with communicating your needs and wants. I am still trying to teach you that your words are to be used and not your hands to make sure you get your points across. You like your own space and when a kid gets right into your face or gets too much in your "elbow room" you don't like it and take great offense to it. I try to watch out for that for you and explain to you that it is perfectly acceptable for you to fave your personal space and for people to respect this request.
You are so friendly and happy. You like to say hi to other kids and engage them easily. You are very interested in water and how everything works. You love to make up words that rhyme. You love riding your bike. When you get hurt there is nothing like a band-aid that will make it all better. You like music. We listen to it in the car all the time. You'll ask me if I like a song and then will say me too! Or sometimes you like songs that I don't and you'll tell me to turn it up. You get the concept of a weekend and love that we can do whatever we want. No work for mama and we can watch a little TV too. Each morning is wake up, chocolate milk and go pee. You really like the order to everything. Don't like it when it is changed from how we normally do things. Whether it's a task or the schedule. I wonder if you'll still be like that when you're older. You started camp with Dara. You love him. Rookie camp is awesome. I think you really like it. It is showing you so many fun activities. Perfect for your age and there are plenty of LD kids there too to help you feel comfortable. It's been a nice summer so far. You are getting so big. I keep trying to just pause and take you in. I know this time is passing by so quickly. I keep saying to myself you are only 3-1/2. You are still my baby. You just show so much independence now it's amazing.
You want so badly to go to Legoland this summer. You have been asking so I think we are going to try to go in the next couple of weeks. It will be fun to get away with you.
I love you very much. XOXO
Mama
This summer is flying by. It is half over and we have had alot of fun. You have loved your camps. Especially Domi and Gene's camp and Rookie camp. I pick you up and you do not want to leave. I have to coax you to get you to go to the car with me! It is wonderful to see you having so much fun. I love that we have found these special places for you and that you have felt secure in these new places to explore and have fun.
Holley our neighbor has been babysitting you in the eves sometimes when we need it on occasion. You really like her and since she lives only a few doors down we see her all the time and you consider her a friend. Meleana still takes care of you too sometimes during the day or on a weekend afternoon. You seem to really like her company and it is special that she has been watching you for the past year.
You really want Mama to do everything. You still request and demand that it is me that dresses you and washes your hair. You use to be protective of my things but you seem to have cooled off about that sort of thing. It is more just about routine now because you are so use to me doing things for you that is the way you want it to work. You can read many words now and I found out by you pointing to the word and telling me the word and something about it. One word is your name. You won't read it but point to it and then spell it out loud! E-V-A-N!
You can put your shoes on all by yourself now. And can pretty much take all of your clothes off on your own. You are very particular about what clothes we put on you and you like to now chose everything. You have an opinion on how they fit too. In fact that seems to be more important than how they look. You will have a shirt on and say, "mama this shirt is too big!".
You love Anna the cat that lives next door. We often sit with her in the courtyard and pet her. She is such a great cat and will just sit with us. You like to lay your head on her and she just takes it. We talk about getting a cat or a dog. You will often ask for a cat more often than a dog. You like to play in the courtyard. We have a huge pink flower tree. This tree loses its' leaves often and you like to take a basket and go pick up the leaves. You like to take a stick and hit the tree to make the leaves fall down. We don't have a yard but how wonderful we have this courtyard for us to explore. It has a nice size fountain in the middle that offers some nice white noise and now the grass and flowers are finally growing. The irrigation wasn't working and all of the grass and flowers would never grow. that was ok too because you use to be able to dig. Now that all the flowers and plants are living we can no longer dig and go to the bluff with your trucks.
You seem pretty good about sharing. I think you get it now. You will even tell other kids they need to share when you want something from them! You still hit and push when you get frustrated with communicating your needs and wants. I am still trying to teach you that your words are to be used and not your hands to make sure you get your points across. You like your own space and when a kid gets right into your face or gets too much in your "elbow room" you don't like it and take great offense to it. I try to watch out for that for you and explain to you that it is perfectly acceptable for you to fave your personal space and for people to respect this request.
You are so friendly and happy. You like to say hi to other kids and engage them easily. You are very interested in water and how everything works. You love to make up words that rhyme. You love riding your bike. When you get hurt there is nothing like a band-aid that will make it all better. You like music. We listen to it in the car all the time. You'll ask me if I like a song and then will say me too! Or sometimes you like songs that I don't and you'll tell me to turn it up. You get the concept of a weekend and love that we can do whatever we want. No work for mama and we can watch a little TV too. Each morning is wake up, chocolate milk and go pee. You really like the order to everything. Don't like it when it is changed from how we normally do things. Whether it's a task or the schedule. I wonder if you'll still be like that when you're older. You started camp with Dara. You love him. Rookie camp is awesome. I think you really like it. It is showing you so many fun activities. Perfect for your age and there are plenty of LD kids there too to help you feel comfortable. It's been a nice summer so far. You are getting so big. I keep trying to just pause and take you in. I know this time is passing by so quickly. I keep saying to myself you are only 3-1/2. You are still my baby. You just show so much independence now it's amazing.
You want so badly to go to Legoland this summer. You have been asking so I think we are going to try to go in the next couple of weeks. It will be fun to get away with you.
I love you very much. XOXO
Mama
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Pillows in the middle of the night
Mama..the pillows get up in the middle of the night. They say, "whatcha doin?" They have little feet that pop out and they run and run. They run around and play with trucks and then they come back to bed!
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Dear Evan-42 Months Old
Dear E-
You go to the bathroom all on your own now. No need for me to go with you. You don't even ask me to come. There was a time that you always wanted me to come. Now you just announce you need to go and run in and do what you need to do. I am so proud of you. I can't believe you have been potty trained now for over six months! You love to chase and be chased. Chase me Mama! You are getting taller and taller-you are over 40 inches now an pushing 35 pounds. You are into school now. It is such a great place. We are planning out the summer. Sports camp, art and music camp and Spanish camp. I am a little nervous about having too many activities in too many new places. We will see how it all works out. I want your summer to feel like summer and to have some fun new experiences for you. But, truly all that matters is that you get to play. As you say, that is your "work"....I play mama!
You love "New Gym". It is your gymnatics class you go to each week. You are so good at so many things there now and you enjoy it so much. You are fascinated by the idea of planting. We planted one little pot for you but I think it got too much water and never quite grew well plus one of the cats ate some of the tiny leaves. It never had much of a chance. We started over with a brand new pot. We shall see how this one does. You keep saying, "Wow, it takes a long time to grow". You understand everything. If you don't you will ask, what are you talking about? Or what does that mean mama? You love our routine and seem to thrive on knowing what our day holds as you ask me every morning, "What are we doing today?". You like my copy machine at my studio. You have made many copies on it. We have made copies of many things at the studio and each of our hands. You like to open the door where you change the cartridges and ask what they are. You like to ask me what things are and like for me to ask you back the same question you just asked so you can answer it! You are more demanding and becoing so assertive about what you want and how you want it. You understand that your opinion counts and that there are options with each choice.
You are very affectionate. You are gentle and cautious. You seem to be more hesitant with strangers now too. You like to hide your face in my legs when someone not too familiar say hi or talk to you. You really hold me now. When I use to carry you, you knew you needed tohold on but now you really hold on to me. I think you are just alot stronger and like to actually hold me as a hug and not only to hold on in order to not fall. It is sweet! You really talk for yourself now. I look to you and hold my tongue because you have all of your own answers. You know your name, age and when is your birthday. You will proudly announce that you are three AND a half. Before me or Dada have to leave you will say you need to tell the person that is leaving three things. It is the cutest thing ever and it always includes telling us you love us.
You still love turtle. She is your favorite friend. I wasn't sure if she was a girl or a boy until recently. You sleep with her each and every night and always bring her on trips. You will say she missed you today. You still love trucks and you seem to be very into space and rockets. You seem to be a science kid. It will be interesting to see if that grows with you. You are very into numbers and counting. You like to count on your hands and will hold up fingers to ask how many there are showing. You like to identify numbers and letters.
We watch very little TV. It is a treat when we do and it is only on the weekends. You know that and feel that it is so special when we get to "watch something". We are so busy on the weeksdays that we try to keep our weekends slow and easy.
You like to try to put on your own clothes now. You can put on your own socks can pants. You are slowly pulling up and down your pants on your own. It use to be that I had to always do that for you. You like to identify similarities and what things match. You are so perceptive and aware. You notice things sometimes I can't even see until you point them out like an airplane flying by that is really high up in the sky.
We moved your bed up from the floor. You are truly in a big boy bed now. You rolled out a couple of times and told me about it the next morning. But you handle it all on your own and wake up and get back into bed and go back to sleep!
You are still so in love with sand and digging holes with Dada. I want so much to give you a house with a yard. I hate that I can't provide that for you yet. But at least we live here in CA and we have the entire beach right in our backyard in which to play. We go to parks and the beach pretty much everyday. But you love to just sit home and play and that is as important as going anywhere. You want to play all the time and will often say, "Play with me Mama". I am pulled as I need to accomplish a few things each day. I also know that time is so fleeting and that I won't be your favorite playmate forever. I want to play with you as much as time allows. You are a happy kid and one that I love above everything else in my life. You are far the best thing I ahve ever done and I am forever grateful I have you as my son.
I love you my sweet boy.
Mama
You go to the bathroom all on your own now. No need for me to go with you. You don't even ask me to come. There was a time that you always wanted me to come. Now you just announce you need to go and run in and do what you need to do. I am so proud of you. I can't believe you have been potty trained now for over six months! You love to chase and be chased. Chase me Mama! You are getting taller and taller-you are over 40 inches now an pushing 35 pounds. You are into school now. It is such a great place. We are planning out the summer. Sports camp, art and music camp and Spanish camp. I am a little nervous about having too many activities in too many new places. We will see how it all works out. I want your summer to feel like summer and to have some fun new experiences for you. But, truly all that matters is that you get to play. As you say, that is your "work"....I play mama!
You love "New Gym". It is your gymnatics class you go to each week. You are so good at so many things there now and you enjoy it so much. You are fascinated by the idea of planting. We planted one little pot for you but I think it got too much water and never quite grew well plus one of the cats ate some of the tiny leaves. It never had much of a chance. We started over with a brand new pot. We shall see how this one does. You keep saying, "Wow, it takes a long time to grow". You understand everything. If you don't you will ask, what are you talking about? Or what does that mean mama? You love our routine and seem to thrive on knowing what our day holds as you ask me every morning, "What are we doing today?". You like my copy machine at my studio. You have made many copies on it. We have made copies of many things at the studio and each of our hands. You like to open the door where you change the cartridges and ask what they are. You like to ask me what things are and like for me to ask you back the same question you just asked so you can answer it! You are more demanding and becoing so assertive about what you want and how you want it. You understand that your opinion counts and that there are options with each choice.
You are very affectionate. You are gentle and cautious. You seem to be more hesitant with strangers now too. You like to hide your face in my legs when someone not too familiar say hi or talk to you. You really hold me now. When I use to carry you, you knew you needed tohold on but now you really hold on to me. I think you are just alot stronger and like to actually hold me as a hug and not only to hold on in order to not fall. It is sweet! You really talk for yourself now. I look to you and hold my tongue because you have all of your own answers. You know your name, age and when is your birthday. You will proudly announce that you are three AND a half. Before me or Dada have to leave you will say you need to tell the person that is leaving three things. It is the cutest thing ever and it always includes telling us you love us.
You still love turtle. She is your favorite friend. I wasn't sure if she was a girl or a boy until recently. You sleep with her each and every night and always bring her on trips. You will say she missed you today. You still love trucks and you seem to be very into space and rockets. You seem to be a science kid. It will be interesting to see if that grows with you. You are very into numbers and counting. You like to count on your hands and will hold up fingers to ask how many there are showing. You like to identify numbers and letters.
We watch very little TV. It is a treat when we do and it is only on the weekends. You know that and feel that it is so special when we get to "watch something". We are so busy on the weeksdays that we try to keep our weekends slow and easy.
You like to try to put on your own clothes now. You can put on your own socks can pants. You are slowly pulling up and down your pants on your own. It use to be that I had to always do that for you. You like to identify similarities and what things match. You are so perceptive and aware. You notice things sometimes I can't even see until you point them out like an airplane flying by that is really high up in the sky.
We moved your bed up from the floor. You are truly in a big boy bed now. You rolled out a couple of times and told me about it the next morning. But you handle it all on your own and wake up and get back into bed and go back to sleep!
You are still so in love with sand and digging holes with Dada. I want so much to give you a house with a yard. I hate that I can't provide that for you yet. But at least we live here in CA and we have the entire beach right in our backyard in which to play. We go to parks and the beach pretty much everyday. But you love to just sit home and play and that is as important as going anywhere. You want to play all the time and will often say, "Play with me Mama". I am pulled as I need to accomplish a few things each day. I also know that time is so fleeting and that I won't be your favorite playmate forever. I want to play with you as much as time allows. You are a happy kid and one that I love above everything else in my life. You are far the best thing I ahve ever done and I am forever grateful I have you as my son.
I love you my sweet boy.
Mama
Friday, June 17, 2011
Learning to say thanks
Today Evan received some stickers on our stoop when we arrived home. We guessed they were from our neighbor Monica. E loves Monica and they are buddies. He stayed with the stickers for a long time looking at them. I ran into the kitchen and started to prepare some food for dinner. A few minutes later Evan called my name and said, "Momma, I want to go up and See Monica and say thank you for my stickers". We ran upstairs together to find her. I praised him a few times tonight what a big boy he is by asking to say thank you for his gift. I was so proud.
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